Pope rejects bishops’ plan to give Eucharist to Protestants
Apr 19, 2018 15:22:26 GMT
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Pope Francis rejects German bishops’ plan to give Holy Communion to Protestants: report
April 18, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – Pope Francis confirmed a decision by the Holy See’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith rejecting a plan by the German bishops to give Holy Communion to the Protestant spouses of Catholics, according to the Austrian Catholic news service, Kath.net.
“The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Congregation, according to information available to kath.net, has rejected the pastoral assistance of the German Bishops' Conference with express papal approval,” the news agency reported. “Kath.net has learned this from well-informed Vatican sources.”
The “pastoral assistance” offered by the German Episcopal Conference was a guide for priests to use in discerning whether they should allow the Protestant spouses of Catholics to receive Holy Communion. The guide claimed that Protestants could be given communion to end a state of “serious spiritual distress” and to fulfill a “yearning for the Eucharist” after a “deep discernment in a spiritual conversation with the priest or another pastoral worker.”
The guide was approved in February by a majority vote by German bishops but was condemned nationally and internationally as a threat to the Catholic Church’s doctrine regarding the Eucharist.
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April 18, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – Pope Francis confirmed a decision by the Holy See’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith rejecting a plan by the German bishops to give Holy Communion to the Protestant spouses of Catholics, according to the Austrian Catholic news service, Kath.net.
“The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Congregation, according to information available to kath.net, has rejected the pastoral assistance of the German Bishops' Conference with express papal approval,” the news agency reported. “Kath.net has learned this from well-informed Vatican sources.”
The “pastoral assistance” offered by the German Episcopal Conference was a guide for priests to use in discerning whether they should allow the Protestant spouses of Catholics to receive Holy Communion. The guide claimed that Protestants could be given communion to end a state of “serious spiritual distress” and to fulfill a “yearning for the Eucharist” after a “deep discernment in a spiritual conversation with the priest or another pastoral worker.”
The guide was approved in February by a majority vote by German bishops but was condemned nationally and internationally as a threat to the Catholic Church’s doctrine regarding the Eucharist.
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