{"id":9067,"date":"2011-04-22T08:39:02","date_gmt":"2011-04-22T13:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/?p=9067"},"modified":"2011-04-22T10:54:46","modified_gmt":"2011-04-22T15:54:46","slug":"an-austrian-bishop-on-intercommunion-celibacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2011\/04\/22\/an-austrian-bishop-on-intercommunion-celibacy\/","title":{"rendered":"An Austrian bishop on intercommunion, celibacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>I admit these aren&#8217;t the first topics on my mind on Holy Thursday or Good Friday. But Bishop Manfred Scheuer Innsbruck spoke about the first, intercommunion in tradition-uniting (aka &#8220;mixed&#8221;) marriages yesterday, and the second, an opening up of mandatory celibacy, today.\u00a0\u00a0 &#8211; awr<\/em><\/p>\n<p>4.22.11 (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kipa-apic.ch\/index.php?&amp;pw=&amp;na=0,0,0,0,d&amp;ki=219329\">Kipa<\/a>.) \u201cI think that it is a great burden when, e.g. there is not the common basis of the Eucharist, the Last Supper, the worship service: this truly can be a difficult dilemma for marriages. Our thoughts thus run in the direction that, with certain conditions, if non-Catholic partners can say Yes to the Catholic doctrine of the Eucharist, they can also receive Communion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Manfred Scheuer, Bishop of the Diocese of Innsbruck in Austria, as reported April 21 on Vatican Radio.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">*\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 *\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 *\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 *\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 *<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRegarding celibacy I can only say what I always have said: I can imagine an opening up, but I would also look for greater esteem for the celibate manner of life. Proven virtue in the realms of marriage and employment would have to be presuppositions for the ordination of <em>viri probati<\/em>. With regard to celibacy: there are many in our society who involuntarily are not in a relationship. In celibacy there is potential for solidarity with individuals who are alone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Bishop Manfred Scheuer in an interview on Good Friday in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tt.com\/csp\/cms\/sites\/tt\/%C3%9Cberblick\/Chronik\/ChronikInnsbruck\/2616914-42\/di%C3%B6zesanbischof-scheuer-bewusster-atheismus-nimmt-zu.csp\">Tiroler Tageszeitung<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;If non-Catholic partners can say Yes to the Catholic doctrine of the Eucharist, they can also receive Communion.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;I can imagine an opening up regarding celibacy.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[19,25],"tags":[271,1256,812,1253],"class_list":["post-9067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mass","category-ordained-ministry","tag-austria","tag-bishop-manfred-scheuer","tag-celibacy","tag-mixed-marriages"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>An Austrian bishop on intercommunion, celibacy - Home<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2011\/04\/22\/an-austrian-bishop-on-intercommunion-celibacy\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"An Austrian bishop on intercommunion, celibacy - Home\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"&quot;If non-Catholic partners can say Yes to the Catholic doctrine of the Eucharist, they can also receive Communion.&quot; 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