The fanatic

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Madam, understand Catholic ideas and don't be a fanatic, don't be a fanatic... If you continue talking to me, don't be a fanatic. Try to use reason." This is how Bishop Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo concluded his exchange of views with the American journalist Diane Montagna about what happened days ago when he gave communion to the president of the Argentine government , Alberto Fernández, who was then pro-abortion and who lives in a “irregular situation” (adultery Christ called it) with your current partner. According to the Chancellor of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences and the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, the fact that Fernández intends to legalize in Argentina the murder of the unborn in the womb does not disqualify him from receiving the Body of Christ. . Nor does he who cohabits conjugally with someone who is not his wife before God and the Church.


According to the journalist, both circumstances warrant denying her communion. According to Bishop Sánchez Sorondo, communion can only be denied to the excommunicated. That is, or he thinks that canon 915 of the Code of Canon Law is wrong..: Those who have been excommunicated and those who are in question after the imposition or declaration of the penalty, and those who obstinately persist in a manifest grave sin , should not be admitted to Holy Communion . .., or thinks that legalizing abortion and being Job Function Email List an adulterer is not a serious sin. What's more, you most likely believe that it is not unorthodox to state this: It is no longer possible to say that all those who find themselves in some so-called "irregular" situation live in a situation of mortal sin, deprived of sanctifying grace. The limits do not only have to do with a possible ignorance of the norm. A subject, even knowing the norm well, may have great difficulty understanding "the values ​​inherent to the norm" or may be in specific conditions that do not allow him to act differently and make other decisions without new guilt.



Amoris Laetitia 301 That is to say, according to this supposedly magisterial text, Alberto Fernández may know well the Catholic doctrine on abortion and adultery , but, under certain circumstances (for example, fulfilling an electoral promise or the possibility of being left without a partner) he can do the opposite of the same without any fault . Given which, what the aforementioned canon of canon law, the Council of Trent or Saint Paul says, is of little value. In fact, I am surprised that the Argentine archbishop has not precisely appealed to Amoris Laetitia, the new paradigm , to justify what he did and has become entangled in a debate about canon law. According to the curial prelate, everything is a matter of opinions. Cardinal Burke has one and he has another. And there are bishops who agree with the American cardinal and others with him. Among those who agree with Burke is a certain Ratzinger, who, as Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, told the US bishops that communion should be denied to pro-abortionist Catholic politicians.