BREAKING: Pope allows Intercommunion
On Sunday Pope Francis visited Rome's Lutheran church. He took questions from the congregation, including one from a Lutheran woman married to an Catholic. The woman complained that they can not receive communion together.
The pope answered, that "life is bigger than explanations and interpretations". Individuals should decide according to their conscience: "It is a question that each person must answer for themselves."
"There is one baptism, one faith, one Lord, so talk to the Lord and move forward. I dare not, I cannot, say more."
Then the pope said the opposite: "I'll never give you permission for that, because this is beyond my competence".
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"Elsewhere [i.e., outside the Church] there is neither a legitimate priesthood nor true sacrifices"
This is a true response of the Catholic Church to the intercommunion incentives and Lutherans' dilemmas.
Bergoglio said: "The question on sharing the Lord’s Supper isn’t easy for me to respond to, above all in front of a theologian like Cardinal Kasper – I’m scared! "
I agree with inve_1. The pope's answer was ambiguous.
Welcome to the ambiguities of the Novus Ordo Church.
It is in keeping with all of Francis's actions before and since taking the Office of the Papacy, in the external forum.
This is not true: If the Pope has said this he is a formal heretic and he is not the Pope of the Church anymore.