Posted on 09/11/2015 5:06:13 AM PDT by marshmallow
The cardinal says as a child of divorced parents he knows what it is to grow up in a 'patchwork family'
A three-week Synod of Bishops to talk in the abstract about Catholic teaching on the family makes no sense to Austrian Cardinal Christoph Schönborn of Vienna.
“We are all called to observe the situation, not gazing from above and beginning with abstract ideas, but with the gaze of pastors who scrutinise today’s reality in an evangelical spirit,” the cardinal said in an interview with Jesuit Fr Antonio Spadaro, editor of La Civiltà Cattolica.
In the early September interview, the cardinal spoke about his experience at the extraordinary Synod of Bishops on the family last year, about his own parents’ divorce, about the relationships of his friends and about his hopes for the world Synod of Bishops on the family next month.
The approach the bishops are called to take, he said, “is not first of all a critical gaze that highlights every failure, but a benevolent gaze that sees how much good will and how much effort there is even in the midst of much suffering”.
The next step, he said, is not to pretend that everything in all those situations is fine, but to help Catholics build on what is good, growing in holiness and faithfulness to God and to each other.
The Church’s ministers, the cardinal said, should recognise what is good where it is found. For example, he said, a civil marriage is better than simply living together, because it signifies a couple has made a formal, public commitment to one another. “Instead of talking about everything that is missing, we can draw close to this reality, noting what is positive in this love that is establishing itself.”
Cardinal Schönborn spoke in the interview about a gay....
(Excerpt) Read more at catholicherald.co.uk ...
Don’t anyone ever forget that this is the man behind the CCC...
Really?
No such thing as a stable homosexual relationship 95% of the time.
No such thing as a stable homosexual... at least I've never met one.
So it’s better to sin long-term rather than repent as quickly as possible?
100% actually. Unstable people cannot by definition be stable in anything.
And gays are 100% non monogamous.
Hmmm...this might explain the softer, less traditional tone re: homosexuals in the JPII CCC then.
Sort of a floating morality, go along with perversion to get along.
So the catholic church is now bowing to the god of modernity.
I hope not
The destruction of Western Civilization accelerates.
This guy is being either willfully deceptive, or he's not thinking coherently.
If his own background as a child of divorced parents has colored his views of marriage (this alone makes me wonder if he was ever fit to be ordained in the first place), then he would know better than anyone else that "a formal, public commitment to one another" is absolutely meaningless in the context of a civil process.
He’s saying don’t change church teaching on what is a siin and what isn’t, don’t change who ought receive the Eucharist and who not, but accompany these sinners and see what help you can offer them as a true friend outside their bedroom. Aunts and uncles and such can help these people, rather than just shunning them.
That is very good in the abstract, but everyone, the children, watching this sees you as accepting or embracing or celebrating these sin along with the sinner. ANd since we suck to the highest order at forming our catholic people, they will think the church has changed and no sin exists anymore. Then the whole boat sinks.
So he ought start forming our faith better on what a sin is, so we can accompany sinners without getting lost! We’re not theologians, just simple folk.
And people live together because they want to, not because they can’t afford a dowry!!!! Come on, this is a joke!
Preparing all for the acceptance of "gay marriage".
Actually, modernism has infiltrated the post Vatican II Church for 60 + years now. It’s just recently becoming more and more obvious thanks to the recent “pope”.
Fifty percent of the time it works one hundred percent of the time.
Why even bring it up?
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