During the funeral of Raimondo Vianello, the Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi receive Communion. Nothing strange, except that the premier is divorced and civilly remarried. The fact was brought evidenced by the daily Il Messaggero and now have lots of criticism. "Yet the divorced and remarried - the newspaper - the sacrament of Communion is completely denied, as reiterated by Pope Wojtyla and Ratzinger." Embarrassment at the CEI, in fact, the debate about the possibility of giving the sacrament even to divorced people has long been the subject of discussion.
Monsignor Giuseppe Casale, Bishop Emeritus of Foggia, is the idea that the rule should be reviewed. "Not so much - he says - for an enlargement lax but because, once a person divorced also have chosen the path of repentance, makes no sense to exclude from the Christian life. "Regarding the incident said:" The pastor mica could oust the president or whoever he was. But not because it was the Prime Minister, simply because the priest can not do a discriminatory act that would create a scandal. Rather, Berlusconi had to abstain from doing communion with his action did not behave consistently as a Christian. "
Small, new problems for the Church that is not certain at a particularly happy.
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