VATICAN CITY
Catholic World Report
By Catherine Harmon
Yesterday Reuters reported on an interview given to a German newspaper by Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga of Tegucigalpa, Honduras in which the influential cardinal criticized the prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Cardinal-Designate Gerhard Ludwig Müller.
Magadiaga, who is coordinator of the council of cardinals selected by Pope Francis to advise him on curial reform and Church governance, was responding to a question about Müller’s statements on Communion for divorced and remarried Catholics. Last fall, the CDF head published a lengthy defense of Church teaching on the subject; he recently reiterated his position in an interview with the Italian Corriere della Sera, stating, “We must try a combination of general principles and particular, personal situations. Finding solutions to individual problems, though always on the foundation of Catholic doctrine…. [M]any think the Pope or a synod can say: of course, receive Communion. But this is not possible.”
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