Pontifical Council for the Family - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Sat, 30 May 2015 18:21:02 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Pontifical Council for the Family - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Pontifical Council for Family head under investigation https://cathnews.co.nz/2015/06/02/pontifical-council-for-family-head-under-investigation/ Mon, 01 Jun 2015 19:09:04 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=72104 The president of the Pontifical Council for the Family is under investigation by Italian authorities for alleged financial irregularities. Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia is being investigated in connection with the sale of the historic San Girolamo castle four years ago. Two employees of Paglia's former diocese of Terni-Narni-Amelia have been arrested. Prosecutors are probing Paglia on Read more

Pontifical Council for Family head under investigation... Read more]]> The president of the Pontifical Council for the Family is under investigation by Italian authorities for alleged financial irregularities.

Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia is being investigated in connection with the sale of the historic San Girolamo castle four years ago.

Two employees of Paglia's former diocese of Terni-Narni-Amelia have been arrested.

Prosecutors are probing Paglia on allegations of criminal conspiracy and fraud in relation to the sale of the castle to real estate company IMI immobiliare, which was headed by one of the arrested diocese employees.

Diocese funds were allegedly used illegally and money was found to be missing from those funds.

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Pontifical Council for Family head under investigation]]> 72104 Move on Communion for divorced and remarried denied https://cathnews.co.nz/2013/04/30/move-on-communion-for-divorced-and-remarried-denied/ Mon, 29 Apr 2013 19:23:01 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=43451

A Vatican department has taken the unusual step of issuing a public denial that it is preparing a document on the reception of Communion by Catholics who are divorced and remarried. The denial follows an article circulated by an Italian news agency claiming that Pope Francis had asked Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, president of the Pontifical Read more

Move on Communion for divorced and remarried denied... Read more]]> A Vatican department has taken the unusual step of issuing a public denial that it is preparing a document on the reception of Communion by Catholics who are divorced and remarried.

The denial follows an article circulated by an Italian news agency claiming that Pope Francis had asked Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, president of the Pontifical Council for the Family, to draft a document to find "a solution" so that those who are "remarried divorced persons" could receive Communion.

The report, which was widely distributed through various news and media agencies in Italy, also claimed that the Holy Father's move was prompted by requests from "many Italian bishops".

But the pontifical council issued an announcement on April 25 to deny the report.

The brief statement said: "The Pontifical Council for the Family declares that there is no basis to the news, circulated by some press agencies, that a document on distributing Communion to remarried divorced persons is being prepared."

Especially in Europe, liberal Catholics have argued strongly for a change in the Church law that bars Catholics who are divorced and remarried (without annulment of the earlier marriage) from receiving the Eucharist.

Pope Benedict XVI called for a new outreach to divorced and remarried Catholics, urging priests to include them in pastoral plans.

Last October, the Synod of Bishops confirmed the need for pastoral care of Catholics living in irregular marital situations.

In the new book Pope Francis: Conversations with Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the Pontiff said: "It's a very strong value in Catholicism, marriage until separated by death. Still, today in Catholic doctrine the faithful who get divorced and remarry are reminded that they are not excommunicated. While they live in a situation on the margin of the sacrament of marriage, they are asked to integrate in the life of the parish."

Sources:

Catholic World News

Vatican Information Service

Daytona Beach News-Journal

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Move on Communion for divorced and remarried denied]]> 43451 Mixed marriages bring extra challenges https://cathnews.co.nz/2013/04/16/mixed-marriages-bring-extra-challenges/ Mon, 15 Apr 2013 19:03:05 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=42830 When Catholics marry someone of a different religion they will face extra challenges — and Church leaders must learn how to help them meet the challenges of these mixed marriages, a Vatican official says. The secretary of the Pontifical Council for the Family, Bishop Jean Laffitte, was commenting on a research project conducted by the Read more

Mixed marriages bring extra challenges... Read more]]> When Catholics marry someone of a different religion they will face extra challenges — and Church leaders must learn how to help them meet the challenges of these mixed marriages, a Vatican official says.

The secretary of the Pontifical Council for the Family, Bishop Jean Laffitte, was commenting on a research project conducted by the Catholic bishops of Lebanon.

The project looked at the realities and challenges of marriages between Christians of different traditions and between a Catholic and a Muslim.

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