DEACON FOR LIFE

Were there to be no support in the whole history of ethical and moral thought, were there no acknowledged confirmation from medical science, were the history of legal opinion to the contrary, we would still have to conclude on the basis of God's Holy Word that the unborn child is a person in the sight of God. He is protected by the sanctity of life graciously given to each individual by the Creator, Who alone places His image upon man and grants them any right to life which they have.

Wednesday, October 23, 2013

Divorced and Remarried. Müller Writes, Francis Dictates

A document from the prefect for doctrine reconfirms the 'no' to communion and brings clarification on "conscience" and "mercy." Freezes the expectations of change. But is a "Ratzinger hypothesis" returning to the field?

by Sandro Magister

ROME, October 23, 2013 - "I believe that this is the time of mercy," Pope Francis had said on the return flight from Brazil, responding to a question about communion for the divorced and remarried.

But the notion that the "mercy" preached by pope Jorge Mario Bergoglio would herald a lifting of the ban on communion, as many had inferred, is now out of the question.

Read more here: http://chiesa.espresso.repubblica.it/articolo/1350630?eng=y