Adulterer Communion: Francis Still Believes that Sin Is "Love"
October 2 was dominated by the news that five cardinals had published five dubia concerning the ex-synod. Tucho's reply to Duka was co-signed by Francis.
The main issue concerns the admission of adulterers to the Novus Ordo Communion. Tucho replies that all should examine their "conscience" and evaluate themselves as to whether they are in a state to receive Communion. Self-evaluation is tantamount to self-justification.
Tucho claims against the truth, that Francis' controversial Amoris Laetitia is based on the Magisterium of Benedict XVI and John Paul II (sic), who said that adulterers can receive Communion only if there is no fornication involved.
According to Tucho, Francis believes that there can be "difficulties" in practicing continence and therefore Francis "allows" in "certain cases" [in which cases not?] and "after adequate discernment" [= justification of sin] to receive absolution in confession without renouncing fornication.
Amoris Laetitia "allows" to receive absolution and to attend the Eucharist "when, in a particular case [every case is by definition 'particular'], there are limitations that attenuate responsibility and guilt", Tucho pontificates.
This is the case, he writes, when fornication with an illegitimate partner is perceived by the adulterer's "conscience" as "a true expression of love."
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