Pope blocks German Guidelines allowing Holy Communion for Protestant spouses

The important document by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith was made public by several German websites today (we are unsure of the exact order of those who broke the news, so we credit all of them).

The translation of the document itself was provided by Settimo Cielo, Sandro Magister's blog. We post it below for the record of ongoing events.

We just wish to add the following note: spread by a liberal priest on Twitter, a grave falsehood came up saying that the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith had allowed individual bishops to decide on the matter. As the text of the letter makes it clear, that is not at all the case: the CDF, with approval from the Pope, forbid the German conference to publish the guidelines allowing general communion for Protestant spouses of Catholic faithful. What it temporarily allowed diocesan bishops to do was regarding the communion in cases of "grave and urgent necessity" already foreseen in the 1983 Code of Canon Law for those who held the Catholic understanding of the Blessed Sacrament precisely in such "grave and urgent" cases -- and not as a general and constant rule for Protestant spouses of Catholics.

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Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith

Prot. N. 212/2018 - 64727

Vatican City

Palace of the Sant’Uffizio

May 25 2018

To His Most Reverend Eminence

Cardinal Reinhard Marx

Archbishop of Munich and Freising

President of the German Episcopal Conference

Kardinal-Faulhaber Str. 7

D-80333 München

Bundesrepublik Deutschland

Your Eminence, Most Illustrious President!

German Liberalism is a Cancer in the Church

Cancer: a terrible disease, with which we are, as many of you, terribly familiar. Therefore, we do not make use of it as a metaphor unadvisedly.

Since the age of the Council, and before it, Liberal Catholicism of the German extraction has been a life-threatening cancer metastasizing throughout Holy Mother Church. A Pole and a good German tried to reverse the disease, but the deep pockets of the German Bishops who funded the "St. Gallen Mafia" got what they paid for in 2013: increasing confusion throughout the Church.

Their first Trojan Horse was the non-issue of Communion for lifelong adulterers, rammed through in two Synods, followed by the outrageous liberal paragraphs and footnotes in "Amoris Laetitia".

Now, their new Horse also involves the Most Blessed Sacrament: that the Prince of Darkness is their instigator cannot be doubted because they only attack the holiest thing in the Church, the Sacred Eucharist.