If not a new ability , what ' s your idea for viability ? <| sep |> I have to ask what is it specifically about the situation of the Church in Africa , Asia , or Latin America that makes adultery no longer a mortal sin , remarriage after divorce no longer adultery , or receiving communion while in a state of mortal sin licit ? What pastoral circumstances make it a good idea to hold up someone who openly dissented from Church teaching , who laid the groundwork for arguing that abortion was not morally wrong , as a positive model ? What circumstances on the ground would lead one to praise communists , adherents of an ideology vociferously condemned by the Church , intrinsically opposed to God , and which has slaughtered more than 100 million people in the past century , while oppressing hundreds of millions more ? Who is brought into the Church by this ? Whose soul is saved ? No one takes issue with the very idea of pastoral accommodation , no one thinks that Catholics should ignore the concrete realities of life . What people take issue with are the actual and specific things that Francis has said and done .