"Pope Calls Cardinal to Rome to Talk About Eucharistic Sharing" Boston Globe

https://www.thebostonpilot.com/article.asp?ID=182128

My response: This is good news for many Catholics! Eucharistic sharing affirms our oneness in Christ. It is a spiritual reality and fosters greater union and deeper oneness between Catholics and Non-Catholics. Good for the German bishops for leading the way! Bridget Mary Meehan ARCWP

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis has asked the president of the German bishops' conference to come to Rome to discuss pastoral guidelines for possibly allowing some non-Catholics married to Catholics to receive the Eucharist, the conference spokesman said.

Reports that "the document was rejected in the Vatican by the Holy Father or by the dicasteries are false," said Matthias Kopp, the conference spokesman.

For one thing, Kopp said April 19, the guidelines still have not been finalized and, therefore, they have not been reviewed by the Vatican. Members of the German bishops' conference were asked to submit proposed amendments to the draft document by Easter; the heads of the conference's doctrinal and ecumenical committees and the president of the conference were to formulate a final draft and present it to the conference's permanent council April 23.

Cardinal Reinhard Marx, conference president, had announced Feb. 22 at the end of their plenary meeting that three-quarters of the German bishops approved the development of pastoral guidelines for determining situations in which a non-Catholic spouse married to a Catholic could receive Communion.