{"id":49420,"date":"2018-05-04T16:46:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-04T14:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www1.romereports.com\/2018\/05\/04\/pope-asks-german-bishop-to-make-unanimous-decision-on-intercommunion\/"},"modified":"2018-05-04T16:46:00","modified_gmt":"2018-05-04T14:46:00","slug":"pope-asks-german-bishop-to-make-unanimous-decision-on-intercommunion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2018\/05\/04\/pope-asks-german-bishop-to-make-unanimous-decision-on-intercommunion\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope asks German bishop to make \u201cunanimous\u201d decision on intercommunion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>German bishops disagree on the content of a pastoral guide written by Cardinal Marx on the Eucharistic participation of Protestants who are in mixed marriages.<\/p>\n<p>There are two sides. The one represented by Cardinal Marx proposes to turn into a norm what is already being practiced: that a Protestant spouse of a Catholic who regularly accompanies the spouse to Mass and believes in the Eucharist, can also receive communion.<\/p>\n<p>The other side, held by Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki, believes that this is not a pastoral issue, and that it cannot be solved unilaterally by an episcopal conference. Therefore, the bishop asked the Vatican to clarify the issue.<\/p>\n<p>These two cardinals, and a group of bishops from Germany, met with Vatican Curia representatives, headed by Archbishop Luis Ladaria, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.<\/p>\n<p>Ladaria told them that Pope Francis 'appreciates their ecumenical commitment' and asks them to try to find a \u201cpossibly unanimous arrangement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to the Vatican spokesman, the meeting was in a 'cordial and fraternal atmosphere.' They faced 'various points of view,' speaking about how to resolve \u201cthe relationship of this question with the faith and with pastoral care, [and] its relevance for the universal Church and its juridical dimension.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 4, 2018. The opposing sides met in the Vatican in a \"cordial and fraternal atmosphere.\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":23280,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/F_khwhxOu3E","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bvescoviintercomunioneng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bvescoviintercomunionint.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49420"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49420\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}