Four years after the legalization of divorce in Malta, the head of
one of the nation’s two dioceses has issued a pastoral letter on mercy
for those who have divorced and entered into a civil marriage outside
the Church.
“It is no secret that there is expectancy about the conclusions of the
Synod regarding the pastoral situation of those who are divorced and are
in a second relationship,” Bishop Mario Grech of Gozo said in his
August 15 letter. “Those who propose that certain barriers between those
who are in an ‘irregular relationship’ but who believe in Christ as
Savior, and the rest of the community, should be removed, are in no way
putting at risk the teaching about the indissolubility of marriage, but
they are eager to make possible the experience of the balm of God’s
mercy, particularly that kind of mercy which according to the Tradition
of the Church, the penitent accedes to it when he is on the road of
conversion, known as the via poenitentialis [penitential way].”
“God’s mercy is not only a doctrine alongside the doctrine of marriage
and the family, but is at the heart of Christian doctrine,” he
continued. “The promoters of ‘God’s justice’ may feel uneasy when
confronted with this pastoral view.”
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Confessing God
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I would never have guessed Malta would go to hell in a handbasket so quickly.
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