Pope Francis: The Ten Commandments Are Optional

Pope Francis thinks that the Catholic Church can no longer issue general rules that apply to all people, according to Jesuit Father Antonio Spadaro.

During an October 6 address at Boston College, Spadaro claimed therefore that, according to Amoris Laetitia, people living in “irregular” family situations, such as divorce and remarriage [adultry], "can be living in God's grace”.

Spadaro denied the existence of “a rule that is absolutely to be followed in every instance”. And, “It is no longer possible to judge people on the basis of a norm that stands above all.”

With such claims Spadaro implies that there are cases when murder, child abuse or genocide are morally acceptable and even praiseworthy.

Picture: Antonio Spadaro, © Antonio Spadaro, CC BY-SA, #newsNcvnlskpxn

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Jun 24, 2021

Angie W.

Oct 9, 2017

17 Then the dragon was angry with the woman,[c] and went off to make war on the rest of her offspring, on those who keep the commandments of God and bear testimony to Jesus.
Revelation 12

aderito

Oct 9, 2017

Trump has stop the money finance that export abortion to other countries ,,working to stop plan parentwood ,the murderer machine of babies ,stop government from pushing the agenda that contraceptives have to be provided even in places like sisters of the poor which are religious associations {religious freedoms },i have not read anything from the vatican appreciating these ,victories ,Is Vatican in …More

aderito

Oct 9, 2017

this line of thinking is not catholic ,its kind of grocery shoppe ,you just buy what you want

ndhorner

Oct 9, 2017

Relative theology and relative morality are.. . Well,.. . Relative.
I'm sure if someone killed a toddler in front of them they'd speak out, but thanks to the way they talk that very murderer could just argue back "well it's wrong in your eyes and not mine, thus it is relative, and god (uncapitalized on purpose) wanted me to do it, so by your own account I could still be in the state of grace"
They …More

Relative theology and relative morality are.. . Well,.. . Relative.

I'm sure if someone killed a toddler in front of them they'd speak out, but thanks to the way they talk that very murderer could just argue back "well it's wrong in your eyes and not mine, thus it is relative, and god (uncapitalized on purpose) wanted me to do it, so by your own account I could still be in the state of grace"
They would have to then be faced with the horrors they spread.

HerzMariae

Oct 9, 2017

Ratzinger, Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith, 1994:

"Members of the faithful who live together as husband and wife with persons other than their legitimate spouses may not receive Holy Communion. Should they judge it possible to do so, pastors and confessors, given the gravity of the matter and the spiritual good of these persons(10) as well as the common good of the Church, have the serious duty to admonish them that such a judgment of conscience openly contradicts the Church's teaching(11). Pastors in their teaching must also remind the faithful entrusted to their care of this doctrine."