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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Vatican\u2019s doctrinal chief: Church hasn\u2019t changed teaching against contraception, divorce, homosexuality<\/strong><\/p>\n

source: https:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/news\/vaticans-doctrinal-chief-the-church-has-not-changed-teaching-against-contra<\/a><\/p>\n

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April 10, 2017 (LifeSiteNews<\/a>) — The Catholic Church under Pope Francis has not changed her teaching on the immorality of cohabitation, adultery, divorce, or homosexuality, and she has certainly not opened the door for civilly-divorced-and-remarried Catholics to receive Holy Communion, said Cardinal Gerhard Muller in a new book-length interview published April 1.<\/p>\n

Muller, the head of the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, said in the 240-page book, titled\u00a0The Cardinal Muller Report<\/a><\/em>, that Catholics must not fear \u201cconfessing our faith.” The book was dedicated to Pope Francis.<\/p>\n

In the interview, conducted about a year ago but only made available in English this month, the Cardinal said that it would be a \u201cfalse concept of God\u201d as well as a \u201cfalse interpretation of mercy\u201d to allow civilly-divorced-and-remarried Catholics living in adultery to receive Communion.<\/p>\n

In \u201cimmoral relationships\u201d such as cohabitation and divorce-and-remarriage, he said, \u201cthe seeds of the Word [of God] do not abide in [these] sinful situations.\u201d In these situations, he added, \u201cdespite the fact that it might seem otherwise, there can be no authentic dynamic of love but, rather, only a serious obstacle to the ability to grow in humanity.\u201d<\/p>\n

Muller said that the 2015 Synod on the Family insisted that \u201cgiven the intimate nature of the sacraments and the character of the indissolubility of marriage as divine law, it is not possible to admit to the Eucharist divorced people who have remarried civilly.\u201d<\/p>\n

Any pastoral accompaniment for those in irregular situations, he said, must \u201calways be rendered according to conscience and the teaching of the Church.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSaint John Paul II warned that being pastoral does not mean a compromise between the doctrine of the Church and the complex reality of daily life but, rather, leading individuals to Christ,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

The Cardinal said that Pope Francis\u2019 much used statement that the Eucharist \u201cis not a prize for the perfect but a powerful medicine and nourishment for the weak,\u201d is often mistakenly interpreted. He maintained that it does not mean that \u201canyone can come to receive the Eucharist even though he is not in grace and does not have the required state of mind, just because it is nourishment for the weak.”<\/p>\n

He noted that access to the Eucharist comes with necessary preconditions.<\/p>\n

\u201cCertainly access to Eucharistic Communion presupposes a life of grace, presupposes communion in the Body of the Church, and also presupposes a life ordered in conformity with the Body of the Church so as to be able to say the \u2018Amen\u2019 to which you referred before. Saint Paul insists that whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of profaning the Body and Blood of the Lord,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

To go to Communion without being in the required state of grace and with the assumption that God \u201cgrants me privately the forgiveness of my sins\u201d is a \u201cfalse concept of God; this is tempting him,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Muller said that Pope Francis\u2019 famous statement \u201cWho am I to judge,\u201d often repeated by those who are hoping to see a \u201cchange of direction\u201d in the Church on homosexuality, does not mean the Church has suddenly become \u201cless dogmatic\u201d on the issue.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe concept of the intrinsic disorder of homosexual acts, because they do not proceed from a genuine emotional and sexual complementarity, stems from Holy Scripture,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

And yes, he said, the Church \u201cwith her Magisterium, has the power to judge the morality of specific situations,\u201d such as sexual acts.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is an undisputed truth: God is the only judge who will judge us at the end times, and the pope and bishops have the obligation to present the revealed criteria for this Last Judgment which our moral conscience already anticipates. The Church has always said \u2018this is true, this is false,\u2019 and no one can live by his own subjectivist interpretation of God\u2019s commandments,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

The Cardinal warned against \u201cnew anti-family ideologies\u201d that have arisen that \u201cattempt to redefine what is human, based, not on the truth, but on individual feeling and social utility.\u201d<\/p>\n

He specifically mentioned the danger of \u201cgender ideology.\u201d<\/p>\n

This ideology, he said, \u201cdoes not respect the reality of things and that ultimately denies the Creator and man\u2019s condition of having been created.\u201d It \u201caffirms that man\u2019s identity does not depend on nature, with a body that is limited to a masculine or feminine sexuality\u201d and \u201cmakes use of medical advances to use the body as an area of experimentation, viewing a change in sex as a simply biological operation,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Muller said that lurking behind gender ideology is the manmade \u201cidol\u201d of \u201cour own liberty, of our own wish, proposing to be, ourselves, those who determine what is good and bad.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWas this not the substance of the first temptation of Adam and Eve? Is it possible to build a society without respecting the fundamental difference between a man and a woman?\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

The Cardinal concluded his interview by proposing how the Church can help modern man find \u201cpeace and reconciliation with himself.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is only one way open to us: compunction or repentance for the evil committed. The Cross of Christ is the only path. There is no other path for evangelization today,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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