Cleveland Commonweal Local Community Network

Meeting Place, and Time The next meeting of the Commonweal Local Communities will be held at St Dominic Church in Shaker Heights, Wednesday, January 9. 7:00pm - 8:30pm. Note the new time and date. Meeting Topic Join us to discuss the highly contentious issue of whether a divorced and legally (but not sacramentally) remarried Catholic, should, in some circumstances, be permitted to receive communion. Our resources will be the review of Catherine Kaveny's book, Ethics at the Edges of Law (October 19 issue of Commonweal), and additional notes on the chapter in the book that deals with remarriage and communion ("Second Chances and Statutes of Limitations"). Links for the review, entitled EMBODIED ARGUMENTS , is in the October 19th issue of Commonweal and to additional  material for discussion  SECOND CHANCES AND STATUTES OF LIMITATIONS (KAVENY) Eric Beversluis and Brian Toohey will lead the discussion. Meeting Place Directions St....

Here is some additional material from Kaveny’s chapter “Second Chances and Statutes of Limitations: Engaging Walter Kasper” for us to think about and discuss.    Amoris laetitia “appears to have opened the door to the reception of communion by people in that situation [divorced and remarried].” (221) -Cardinal Schöborn: “there is an organic development of doctrine” in the document. (221) -Cardinal Baldisseri: need to interpret the document in light of the pope’s emphasis on mercy. (221) Kasper argues that mercy is God’s essential nature , that mercy means the opportunity for second chances, and that these principles must govern the church’s teaching on remarriage and access to communion. -Kasper requires that divorced and remarried person must be “properly disposed”:      -sincerely sorry that they failed in the first marriage      -return to first marriage is definitely not possible      ...

  Meeting Place, and Time The next meeting of the Commonweal Local Communities will be held at St Dominic Church in Shaker Heights, Wednesday, December 12. 7:00pm - 8:30pm. Note different time and date. Meeting Topic Join us in the small meeting room to discuss how the traditions of legal reasoning can inform thinking about issues raised by the Church's moral theology. Our resources will be the review of Catherine Kaveny's book, Ethics at the Edges of Law, and additional notes on Kaveny's chapter dealing with remarriage and communion.  Links for the review, entitled EMBODIED ARGUMENTS , is in the October 19th issue of Commonweal and to additional  material for discussion  SECOND CHANCES AND STATUTES OF LIMITATIONS (KAVENY) Eric Beversluis, sometime philosophy professor, and Brian Toohey, attorney, will lead the discussion. Meeting Place Directions December 12th. 7pm - 8:30pm St. Dominic Church Small Meeting Room in the school (enter ...