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"Cardinal Marx: In Intercommunion Debate, Dioceses Might Have Different Rules"
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"Cardinal Reinhard Marx, the head of the German bishops, is now opening up to the idea of different German dioceses having different rules concerning the possible admittance of Protestant spouses of Catholics to Holy Communion. Another bishop just said, moreover, that Pope Francis seems not to see in the new German intercommunion guidelines a 'threat to the Faith.'
Last Saturday, the German Katholikentag (a national Catholic gathering with some 50,000 participants) in Münster came to an end. Now, at the beginning of this week, the statements of the participating German bishops concerning the ongoing intercommunion debate are being widely reported in the German press.
One of the most prominent figures is, of course, Cardinal Marx. During events of the Katholikentag, he said two important things that deserve to be reported. First, he claimed in an interview with the German bishops’ news website Katholisch.de (around minute 8 of the video) that Pope Francis does not wish us 'to stand still and to look back' with regard to ecumenism. Rather, the pope wishes us 'to go forward, avanti, and to see what possibilities [for a greater ecumenical community] we have.' So says Cardinal Marx. This of course implies that the pope himself wishes us to 'move forward' with the intercommunion issue.
The second claim that is now being widely reported is that Marx, when asked about the possibility of having different intercommunion rules set up by German dioceses, replied: 'Yes, that is already now the case.'"
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