Pope Calls for a more Compassionate Church

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Pope Calls for a more Compassionate Church

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Pope Francis today called for a Church that was less strict and more compassionate towards imperfect Catholics, such as those who divorced and remarried, saying, ”˜No one can be condemned forever’. Francis said gays should be respected but firmly re-stated the Church’s position that there are absolutely no grounds to equate gay unions to heterosexual marriage. In a 260-page treatise called Amoris Laetitia (The Joy of Love), one of the most eagerly awaited pronouncements of his pontificate, Francis quoted Martin Luther King, Argentine Poet Jorge Luis Borges and even the 1987 Danish cult film Babette’s Feast, to make his case for a more merciful and loving Church. The keenest anticipation centred on what he would say about the full re-integration into the Church of Catholics who divorce and remarry in civil ceremonies. Under current Church teaching they cannot receive communion unless they abstain from sex with their new partner, because their first marriage is still valid in the eyes of the Church and they are seen to be living in a state of adulterous sin.

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