Cardinal Scola: Pope will reject Communion for divorced-remarried
December 02, 2014
Cardinal Angelo Scola of Milan has told an Italian newspaper that he feels sure Pope Francis will not accept a proposal to allow divorced and remarried Catholics to receive Communion.
In an interview with Corriere della Sera, Cardinal Scola said that he was “amazed” by the discussion of Communion for divorced and remarried Catholics during the October session of the Synod of Bishops. Advocates of the proposal, he said, were trying to make an artificial distinction between Church doctrine and discipline, when in fact the two are closely connected.
While advocates of the proposal say that they firmly uphold the traditional Catholic teaching on the indissolubility of marriage, Cardinal Scola said that they would “reduce it to a sort of Platonic ideal,” as something “in the ethereal realm that does not affect real life.”
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