Cardinal Burke: synod did not, and cannot, approve 'internal forum' approach for divorced/remarried Communion
December 01, 2015
Cardinal Raymond Burke has criticized a summary of the October session of the Synod of Bishops, saying that it is inaccurate to claim that the bishops approved an “internal forum” approach to allowing divorced and remarried Catholics to receive Communion.
In an op-ed column for the National Catholic Register, Cardinal Burke took issue with a summary of the Synod’s work that had been written by Father Antonio Spadaro, the editor of the Jesuit journal La Civilta Cattolica. He observed that several Synod participants have reported that the meeting did not approve the “internal forum” solution. However, the cardinal conceded that the Synod’s final report “lacks clarity” on the issue, and this “same lack of clarity has now emerged in the public declarations of the Synod Fathers.”,/p?
Nevertheless Cardinal Burke insists that the solution claimed by Father Spadaro is impossible. “The fact is,” he wrote, “that the Synod could not open a door which does not exist and cannot exist.”
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