German bishop claims Catholic Church could start giving Communion to some Protestants imminently

January 15, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) — A German bishop is claiming that Communion for non-Catholics in mixed marriages is a very real possibility that could happen soon.

Bishop Franz-Josef Bode of Osnabrück said in an interview with Evangelical Press Service (Evangelischer Pressedienst, EPD) that it is “not utopian” to think that there could be shared Communion between Catholics and Protestants in 2017. Within the framework of the “ecumenical jubilee of the Reformation” of Martin Luther, who published his 95 theses against the Church in 1517, Bishop Bode is an advocate of a “solution on our side for marriages with partners from different confessions.”

According to the EPD, many Protestants already receive Communion in the Catholic Church with their partners. “We have to give a basis to that which is already in practice,” Bode said.

“In the year of commemoration of the Reformation, it would make sense to deal with how the Church of the future could look,” continued Bode, envisioning a unified Catholic and Protestant Church. “It would be too simplistic if both confessions see in ecumenism only the way as the goal.”

For Bode, the understanding of Communion in Catholic teaching is changeable in order to reach common ground for intercommunion.

Holy Communion is a sacrament in the Catholic Church that can only be received by Catholics in a state of grace. Catholics believe that bread and wine are truly changed into the body and blood of Christ. Whereas for Lutherans in Germany and elsewhere and in other Protestant denominations, communion is merely a commemorative breaking of the bread in order to recall Christ’s action.

Intercommunion for non-Catholics without acceptance of Catholic teaching on the real presence and transubstantiation (CCC, 1376) has been a goal for liberal bishops of Germany and elsewhere. The occasion of Pope Francis’ visit to Sweden last fall brought more attention to the issue.

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The leaders of the Reformation would turn over in their graves if they knew this. To them the Catholic Church was the Apostacy Prophesied in the Bible and all Protesters stood firm in their decision not to be a part of this system.  However the Catholic Church is spoken of in the Bible at the time of the end as the “mother” church of “harlots”.  The “harlots” are the churches who have turned back to prostitute their beliefs and join with the Catholic Church in her false teaching. As this article indicates this has been a work of the Catholic Church for years under what they termed the ‘Ecumunical movement’ where they espouse to all that we can be friends despite our differences in beliefs.  This is exactly what True Bible Students have been expecting this for years.  Bible Prophecy has revealed to us that the Catholic and Orthodox Churches will be United once more, before Christ’s Return and that many former Protestant Religions will join back with this apostate system.

The sad thing is that these protestant religions will also be swept up in the Catholic Churches false claims about a later day ‘antichrist’.  See this article to learn more about this and take action to ensure you are lead astray by this movement.  The Coming Anti-Christ 

See this article here to learn about this: Catholic and Orthodox Churches to UNITE

See also Alignment of the Nations in the Last Days Prior to Christ’s Return

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