{"id":5483,"date":"2006-01-30T09:51:57","date_gmt":"2006-01-30T14:51:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2006\/01\/30\/there-they-go-again-5\/"},"modified":"2006-01-30T09:51:57","modified_gmt":"2006-01-30T14:51:57","slug":"there-they-go-again-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2006\/01\/there-they-go-again-5\/","title":{"rendered":"There they go again"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the major problems with religion reporting is that there seems to be no skepticism when it comes to a story they want to report.
\nRecently it was the totally invented story of the Vatican’s campaign to reform Judas that spread through many news outlets from one source without any of them questioning the validity of the original source of it.
\nThe new one is that Pope Benedict XVI asked for the Vatican tribunal to issue ‘rapid’ rulings<\/a> on annulment requests at a recent speech to the Roman Rota.
\nCatholic Outsider
\ndemonstrated from his translation from Italian that the Pope said no such thing<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n

The Guardian had reported.<\/p>\n

Pope Benedict signalled a dramatic break with the past yesterday when he acknowledged the plight of divorcees who are banned from taking communion after remarriage and appealed to a Vatican tribunal to issue ‘rapid’ rulings on annulment requests.<\/p>\n

It was the second time this week that the newly elected Pope has displayed strong liberal leanings, confounding his critics and the world’s Catholics and showing another side to his previously stern image, which has been unfavourably compared with his predecessor, John Paul II.<\/p>\n

First off there is the silliness of the new encyclical having strong liberal leanings. I guess they would expect a conservative would issue God is hate. Why in the world is love defined along political lines? And what exactly was the stern image of John Paul II? It must be the fact that he was actually Catholic and taught Catholic truth.<\/p>\n

In Rome yesterday he directly addressed a central tenet of Catholic doctrine that has caused distress to many followers of the church, which states that remarried divorcees are regarded as being in a permanent state of sin and cannot receive communion.<\/p>\n

The 78-year-old pontiff, in a speech to the Roman Rota – the tribunal that decides annulments – acknowledged that there was ‘pastoral concern’ about the predicament of these Catholics.<\/p>\n

He told the panel that its decisions should come quickly for the sake of the faithful. An annulment means that a marriage was invalid, leaving the faithful free to remarry and receive communion.<\/p>\n

The Catholic Outsider says his speech actually said:<\/p>\n

“The canonical process for a marriage annulment is essentially an instrument to define the truth about the conjugal relationship. Its objective, therefore, is not to uselessly complicate the life of the faithful and even less to exacerbate the conflict, but only to serve the truth (…) In fact, the objective of the process is the declaration of a truth from an impartial third party, after offering both parts equal opportunities to present their arguments and proofs within an adequate space for discussion.”<\/p>\n

…“The principle of marriage indissolubility, reaffirmed by John Paul II with great strength in this same place, is an integral part of the Christian mystery. Unfortunately, today we can see that this truth is frequently forgotten in the conscience of Christians and people of good will.”<\/p>\n

…“Pastoral sensibility must make us try to prevent marriage annulments in the process of admission for weddings and try to help the spouses solve possible problems and find the path to reconciliation.”<\/p>\n

But somehow the press inserts rapid and calls this a "dramatic break with the past." Any good religion reporter would have immediately smelled a rat in a story like this and would have tried to have the report confirmed instead of just passing it along.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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