Divorced Catholics can’t have sex

Divorced Catholics can’t have sex, archbishop says

PHILADELPHIA — The head of the Roman Catholic Church in Philadelphia is closing the door opened by Pope Francis to letting civilly remarried Catholics receive Communion, saying the faithful in his archdiocese can only do so if they abstain from sex and live “as brother and sister.”

Archbishop Charles Chaput, who is known for strongly emphasizing strict adherence to Catholic doctrine, issued a new set of pastoral guidelines for clergy and other leaders in the archdiocese that went into effect July 1. The guidelines reflect a stance taken by St. John Paul II.

“Undertaking to live as brother and sister is necessary for the divorced and civilly remarried to receive reconciliation in the Sacrament of Penance, which could then open the way to the Eucharist,” the guidelines read.

Church teaching says that unless divorced and remarried Catholics received an annulment — a church decree that their first marriage was invalid — they are committing adultery and cannot receive the sacrament of Communion.

Chaput says the new instructions stem from Francis’ sweeping document on family life released in April. That document — called “The Joy of Love” — opened a door to divorced and civilly remarried Catholics.

Francis didn’t create a church-wide admission to Communion for divorced and civilly remarried Catholics as some progressives had wanted. But in the April document, he suggested bishops and priests could do so on a case-by-case basis in what could become a significant development in church practice.

Charles never heard of sex with the Ex?!!  supposed to be one of the best!! 

and how are they going to know who's having sex and who's not.


steups he wants two good lashes up his baxide. 

Stupid as stupid gets...the church is stuck on sex, hence the 'perverted indulgences of the faithful.'

I guess that is why the church have so many brothers and sisters...now it all makes sense, albeit the 'incest' that goes on there. Why are they so hung up on sex? 

I agree !

Pandit seh he does be eyeing up all the female devotees

and in India villages, pubescent girls had to go have the cherry picked ! 

by the male village elders..... :-[

whaddabout the Temples and the male village elders in Hinduism:

on the female devotees  :-\

What would you like for me to say? I don't know of these male elder Hindus having sex with the female devotees.

This is new to me.

This thread started with the Catholic church condemnation of ex-married folks having sex, and it transitioned to elder hindu having sex with female devotees. What can I say?

Well learn yuh Hindu history :

so that your big mouth on Catholic decrees can have a semblance

of common sense