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2024
Moral Impossibility and Communion to the Divorced and Remarried
Anthony Hollowell
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In a letter to Bishops from Buenos Aires, Pope Francis supports a praxis of Communion to the divorced and remarried which diverges from magisterial precedent, and theologians have asked if this praxis is a rupture in the church’s moral tradition on intrinsically evil objects and adultery. Using criteria provided by Pope John Paul II’s Thomistic personalism, supplemented by Aquinas’ teaching on the essential elements of a natural law marriage, this article demonstrates how, in situations of moral impossibility, Pope Francis’ proposal is in continuity with, and not a rupture from, the church’s moral tradition regarding intrinsically evil objects.
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Anthony Hollowell
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- 2024
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- 10.55476/001c.121938
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