Posted on 10/17/2014 6:18:13 AM PDT by marshmallow
A Catholic journalist has published the audio recording of an interview with Cardinal Walter Kasper in which the German cardinal made controversial remarks about the contribution of African bishops at the family synod.
Edward Pentin published the recording along with a full transcript and explanatory statement on his personal website yesterday.
The interview was conducted on Tuesday October 16 and was published on the Catholic news website Zenit the following day. It was subsequently removed from Zenit’s website after Cardinal Kasper denied giving the interview to Zenit in a statement to German media.
In the interview, the cardinal said that the issue of homosexuality was difficult to discuss with those from African and Asian countries.
He said: “Africa is totally different from the West. Also Asian and Muslim countries, they’re very different, especially about gays. You can’t speak about this with Africans and people of Muslim countries. It’s not possible. It’s a taboo.”
He also indicated that the views on homosexuality of African bishops were not being listened to.
“I think in the end there must be a general line in the Church, general criteria, but then the questions of Africa we cannot solve,” he said.
“But they should not tell us too much what we have to do.”
Cardinal Kasper denied making the comments and said he had not given an interview to anyone from Zenit.
“I am appalled. I have never spoken this way about Africans and I never would,” he told German media yesterday, according to LifeSiteNews.
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Finally this phony bishop is being undone by his own words. Pray for the conversion of his sole. The church in Germany is in very bad shape because of people like Kasper.
I am not that concerned about his shoes.
I’ve been trying to tell my wife about the long-held mistrust about the Jesuits and their casuistry.
Here Kasper, the top Jesuit’s proxy, gives us this startling object, in spades.
I want my trusty, truthful Pope Benedict XVI back.
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