I'm calling shenanigans then, although I don't know who is guilty.Wosbald wrote: ↑24 Oct 2023, 16:53 Again, as I mentioned upthread, it was widely publicized. It was repeatedly mentioned on OldCPS. It was published in the EWTN-affiliated National Catholic Register:
in Dec '17, National Catholic Register wrote:On the Pope’s personal instruction, the 2016 Buenos Aires bishops’ guidelines on Chapter 8 of his post-synodal apostolic exhortation, Amoris Laetitia, appeared last week in the Holy See’s journal of juridical record, the Acta Apostolicae Sedis AAS). The interpretation permits the sacrament of reconciliation and Holy Communion in some cases for remarried divorcees who, for example, try to live lives of sexual abstinence but must continue to live together for the sake of raising their children.
Title: "The Pope’s Endorsement of Argentina’s Amoris Guidelines: What It Means"
Link: ncregister DOT com/news/the-pope-s-endorsement-of-argentina-s-amoris-guidelines-what-it-means
Recent bloggers report that the Buenos Aires Protocol allows a local pastor to dispense with canon law, marriage tribunal judgment, and annulments. The pastor can grant permission to the divorce/remarried Catholics to receive the Eucharist by his own authority. Of course, many couples will go pastor-shopping until they find one who doesn't care.
Whereas the Register reported that the BA protocol allows remarried Catholics to receive Christ in the Eucharist as long as they abstain from sex, thus avoiding the sin of adultery. And this exception only applies to couples who have a need to stay together, such as caring for children. [This has been the canonical practice in the American Church for several years, and does not appear to be a change in Apostolic Tradition.]
This is messy stuff, and still in need of clarification. Clarification in simple words. Simpler words than promulgated. Because it has not been clearly promulgated yet, in spite of having been published in the Book of Arms (after that chapter on the Holy Hand Grenade).
Humble question, Wos: What do you think the Buenos Aires Protocol advises divorced/remarried Catholics to do regarding receiving the Sacraments?