Pope Francis meets with Fr. Antonio Spadaro, SJ.
BOSTON, Massachusetts, October 6, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) — Jesuit priest and papal confidant Father Anthony Spadaro said that Pope Francis holds that the Catholic Church can no longer set down general norms that apply to entire groups of people.
Spadaro, editor of the Italian magazine La Civiltà Cattolica, made the comment today at a conference at Boston College where liberal Cardinals met with dissident theologians to discuss strategies for implementing Pope Francis’ controversial teachings on marriage and family in dioceses across the United States.
The Jesuit priest told attendees that Amoris Laetitia, the Pope’s 2016 teaching on marriage and family, recognizes that people living in “irregular” family situations, such as the divorced and remarried living in adultery, “can be living in God’s grace, can love and can also grow in a life of grace.”
“We must conclude that the Pope realizes that one can no longer speak of an abstract category of persons and … [a] praxis of integration in a rule that is absolutely to be followed in every instance,” he said, according to a report by National Catholic Reporter.
“Since the degree of responsibility is not equal
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