Understanding In Depth the Grave Errors of Cardinal Kasper

Il Foglio via Rorate Caeli ^ | 10/1/14 | Roberto de Mattei

[marshmallow]

The upcoming Synod of Bishops has been preceded by a rumpus in the media which attaches to it a historical significance greater than its ecclesiastical importance as merely a consultative assembly in the Church. Some are complaining about the theological war the Synod promises to be, but the history of all the Episcopal meetings in the Church (such is the etymological significance of the term “synod” and its synonym “council”) has been made up of theological conflicts and bitter debates on errors and divisions that have threatened the Christian community since its beginnings.

Today the subject of communion for the divorced [and remarried] is only the vector of a discussion that focuses on rather complex doctrinal concepts, such as human nature and the natural law. This debate seems to translate, on the anthropological level, the Trinitarian and Christological speculations which shook up the Church from the Council of Nicaea (325) to the Council of Chalcedon (451). At that time, discussions were held to determine the nature of the Most Holy Trinity, Who is one God in Three Persons and to define in Jesus Christ the Person of the Word, Who subsists in two natures, the Divine and the human. The Council of Nicaea’s adoption of the Greek term homoousios, which was translated in Latin to consubstantialis and, after the Council of Chalcedon with the words “of the same nature” of the Divine substance, to affirm the perfect equality of the Word and the Father, marks a never-to be-forgotten date in the history of Christianity and concludes an era of disorientation, confusion and drama of consciences similar to the one we are [currently] immersed in.

In those years the Church was divided between the “right” of St. Athanasius and the “left” of Arius’ followers, (the definition is by the....

[marshmallow]

A lot has been said and written about Kasper but the real issue here is +Francis, who described Kasper's initial presentation on this subject as "serene theology". The horse bolted at that point. This debate has scandalized faithful Catholics and there was absolutely no need for it.

[Salvation]

Every child, he said, has the right to grow up in a family “with a father and a mother” capable of creating “a suitable environment for the child’s development and emotional maturity.”

~Pope Francis

[piusv]

Why do you keep posting this quote? Does it somehow prove that he will not admit the divorced and remarried to communion?