The meeting lasted quite a long time, about 40 minutes. Gerard O'Connell America : First of all, I wanted to tell you that we are all happy about the surgery, which produced a wonderful result, you are rejuvenated! Pope Francis: They told me that some people wanted to have the operation But it wasn't cosmetic!
As you know, in the USA after the last elections, there was a discussion among the bishops about giving communion to politicians who supported abortion laws, and there are bishops who want to deny communion to the president and other officials. Some bishops are in favourable, others say not to use the Eucharist as a weapon.
What do you think and what do you advise the bishops to do? And have you as a bishop in all these years publicly refused the Eucharist to anyone? Pope Francis: I have never refused the Eucharist to anyone; I don't know if anyone has come in these conditions! This even as a priest.
I have never been conscious of having a person like the one you describe in front of me, that is true. The only time I've ever had a nice thing happen was when I went to serve Mass in an old people's home, I was in the living room, and I said: who wants Communion? All the old people raised their hands.
Communion is not a prize for the perfect - think of Jansenism - Communion is a gift, a present, it is the presence of Jesus in the Church and in the community.
Then, those who are not in the community cannot take Communion, like this Jewish lady, but the Lord wanted to reward her without my knowledge. Out of the community — ex-communicated - because they are not baptised or have drifted away. The second problem, that of abortion: it's more than a problem, it's homicide, whoever has an abortion, kills.
No mincing words. Take any book on embryology for medical students. The third week after conception, all the organs are already there, even the DNA To those who cannot understand, I would ask this question: Is it right to kill a human life to solve a problem? Is it right to hire a hitman to kill a human life?
Scientifically, it is a human life. Is it right to take it out to solve a problem? That is why the Church is so harsh on this issue, because if it accepts this, it is as if it accepts daily murder. A Head of State told me that the demographic decline began because in those years there was such a strong law on abortion that six million abortions were performed and this left a decline in births in the society of that country.
Now we go to that person who is not in the community, who cannot receive Communion. And this is not a punishment, he is outside. But the problem is not theological, it is pastoral, how we bishops manage this principle pastorally. And if we look at the history of the Church, we will see that every time the bishops have not dealt with a problem as pastors, they have taken sides on a political front.
Think of the witch-hunts… of Campo di Fiori, of Savonarola. When the Church defends a principle, when it does so in a non-pastoral manner, it takes sides on a political level, and this has always been the case, just look at history.
What must the pastor do? Home Discussions Workshop Market Broadcasts. Change language. Install Steam. Store Page. So i was playing as england and i seized the british isles and all of France, Milan, the western part of the Holy Roman empire and Denmark, oh and also the Netherlands and Belgium. But now im wondering if it is a good idea to assault the pope and take the papal states?
Is it a good idea or no? Last edited by The Grapeist ; 19 Feb, pm. Showing 1 - 11 of 11 comments. I don't think the papacy can be destroyed while there is still a catholic faction left, as it will merely take a region from another faction if it is defeated. According to accounts written centuries later, Peter asked to be crucified upside down because it would result in a longer, more painful death and not directly emulate Jesus.
In A. As the pope was sitting in his episcopal chair addressing his congregation inside a Roman cemetery on August 6, , imperial troops stormed the liturgical service and beheaded the pontiff along with four deacons.
The martyred pope was later elevated to sainthood, and his feast day is observed every year on the August 6 anniversary of his death. While popes in the early centuries of the Church were murdered because of their political beliefs, palace intrigue was more likely to cause the untimely ends of pontiffs by the Middle Ages.
John VIII was the first pope to be assassinated during a particularly turbulent century that would see multiple claimants to the papacy and a succession of violent papal deaths. The Holy See became so bedeviled by politics that Stephen VI sometimes referred to as Stephen VII put one of his predecessors on trial—in spite of the inconvenient fact that the defendant had been dead for nine months. Stephen VI ordered the exhumation of Pope Formosus, dressed the corpse in pontifical robes and sat it on the throne to stand trial for perjury and other crimes.
The three fingers that Formosus had used to deliver blessings were hacked off, and his body was dragged through the streets of Rome before being thrown into the Tiber River. The macabre trial outraged the public, in particular the supporters of Formosus, which delivered its revenge by imprisoning Stephen VI, stripping him of his papal insignia and strangling him to death in August Pope John X.
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