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This broke yesterday, on his return flight from Geneva.<\/p>\n

From CNS:<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

The question of allowing Protestants married to Catholics to receive Communion at Mass in special cases has to be decided by each individual bishop and cannot be decided by a bishops\u2019 conference, Pope Francis told reporters after a one-day ecumenical journey to Geneva.<\/p>\n

During an inflight news conference June 21, the pope was asked about his recent decision requesting the Catholic bishops\u2019 conference of Germany not publish nationwide guidelines for allowing Communion for such couples.<\/p>\n

He said the guidelines went beyond what is foreseen by the Code of Canon law \u201cand there is the problem.\u201d The code does not provide for nationwide policies, he said, but \u201cprovides for the bishop of the diocese (to make a decision on each case), not the bishops\u2019 conference.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis was the difficulty of the debate. Not the content,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Cardinal-designate Luis Ladaria, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, had written the bishops that \u201cthe Holy Father has reached the conclusion that the document has not matured enough to be published.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pope Francis expanded on that by saying it will have to be studied more. He said he believed what could be done is an \u201cillustrative\u201d type of document \u201cso that each diocesan bishop could oversee what the Code of Canon Law permits. There was no stepping on the brakes,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The bishops\u2019 conference can study the issue and offer guidelines that help each bishop handle each individual case, he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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