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"Germany’s bishops approve Communion for Protestant spouses"
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"Germany’s bishops have decided to allow the Protestant spouses of Catholics to receive Holy Communion in individual cases, the bishops’ news service is reporting.
Munich’s Cardinal Reinhard Marx, president of the German Bishops Conference, announced the decision today during a press conference at the end of the conference’s four-day Spring Assembly in Ingolstadt.
According to the conference’s news service, Katholisch.de, the great majority of the German bishops approved of an 'orientation guide' with regard to mixed marriages and Holy Communion.
'We do not want to simply say that everything is indifferent,' he added. With reference to the Code of Canon Law 844 § 4, which allows non-Catholics to be given Communion in cases of 'grave necessity,' Cardinal Marx said that the local priest has to assess whether or not there happens to be a 'case of exception, in which a non-Catholic may receive Holy Communion.'
He rejected the idea that this path is a path that calls the Protestants to conversion... The German cardinal thus stressed that the document does not mention that Protestants may receive Holy Communion only if they convert...
According to Katholisch.de, the new document on this matter will be published in a few weeks...
The Evangelical Church of Germany (EKD) has already made a first response to this episcopal decision and has welcomed it as 'an important step on the path of ecumenism.'
This German episcopal move and maneuver comes two years after Pope Francis himself, in November of 2015, had made some remarks that were understood to be an opening up to the idea of Protestant spouses receiving Holy Communion. The pope at the time told a Lutheran woman asking about receiving Communion with her Catholic husband to 'go forward' guided by individual conscience...
The theme of Communion for Protestant spouses has been for many years on the agenda of Cardinal Walter Kasper who, only a few days ago, once more argued in favor of it. In a February 19 interview with kathpress.at – the Austrian bishops' news website – he called Pope Francis a 'prophetic pope'"
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