Bishop Schneider on The Crisis in the Church: It’s No Time for Sloth. We Need Soldiers for Christ.

LifeSite News ^ | 6/8/15 | Thaddeus Baklinski

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June 8, 2015 (LifeSiteNews) -- LifeSiteNews contributor Dr. Maike Hickson interviewed Bishop Athanasius Schneider of Astana, Kazakhstan, co-author with Santa Rosa Bishop Robert Vasa and Archbishop Aldo de Cillo Pagotto of Paraiba, Brazil, of the new book "Preferential Option for the Family — 100 Questions and Answers Relating to the Synod" which deals with the confusion surrounding the upcoming Synod on the Family.

The authors' intention in creating the guidebook on the Catholic Church’s teaching on marriage and the family is "to instruct the faithful in a clear and differentiated way about such important truths as marriage and the family," said Bishop Schneider.

"In the book, the divine truths about marriage, family, and human sexuality are called to mind, as they have been handed down by the Magisterium of the Church in a constant and unchanged way, and for two thousand years," he said, pointing out that "the current anti-Christian and nearly global societal order attacks frontally the Divine Order of marriage and human sexuality and propagates divorce, concubinage, as well as homosexual ways of life."

"For this reason," said Bishop Schneider, "the above-mentioned book, with the help of statements of the Magisterium, presents and proves the objective wrongness of all these phenomena."

Find LifeSiteNews' full interview with Bishop Schneider here.

The interview covers the controversies that arose at last year’s Extraordinary Synod on the Family, such as the suggestion to admit civilly remarried divorcees to communion, and to "value" homosexual inclination, as well as touching on the recent referendum in Ireland which now legally permits homosexual “marriages.”

Bishop Schneider said the topic of the admittance of “remarried” divorcees to the Sacraments, is "a topic that in reality should not be up for discussion because the perennial Magisterium of the Church has already decided upon this matter."

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