Posted on 03/16/2016 5:32:08 PM PDT by ebb tide
Cardinal Walter Kasper has said Pope Francis’ eagerly anticipated summary document on the Synod on the Family could be published as soon as this Saturday, and that it will mark the “first step” in a reform of the Church that has taken nearly two millennia to achieve.
(Excerpt) Read more at ncregister.com ...
Cardinal Kasper and a few others believed that the text nevertheless “opened a door” to remarried divorcees receiving Holy Communion — a reading strongly rebutted by Cardinal Raymond Burke and others.
Vatican sources told the Register this week that the apostolic exhortation will contain many paragraphs taken from the final report of last October’s Synod on the Family.
Keep your pants on people...nothing is on fire yet!
Faith, Hope, and Jesus we Trust in You and your Church.
Perhaps he could toss in few words to stop the Catholic support of breeding more islam suckers and followers. islam has NO place in a modern society.
Can you say...."Hermeneutic of Rupture"??
The timing of BXVI's recent interview on the current dangers facing the Church, which is all over the blogosphere today, can not be coincidental.
will someone call me when the church excommunicates those who have, perform, and support abortions. Let’s start with Pelosi and Kerry and work our way down. Until then. I’ll be over there.
The fire started on March 13, 2013. Grab a hose!
Only where there is mercy cruelty ends, it ends the evil and violence. Pope Francis is totally in agreement with this line. His pastoral practice is expressed in the fact that he continually speaks to us of God's mercy. It is mercy that moves us towards God, while justice frightens us before him. In my view, this highlights that under the veneer of security himself and his justice today's man hides a deep knowledge of his injuries and his unworthiness before God. He is waiting for the mercy.
It doesn't sound like he isn't on board with Francis and his focus on "mercy". We shall see what he says or doesn't say after this Exhortation is published.
I also don't think Benedict wants to come over as an embittered former Pope who regrets quitting his job nor to be seen as implying that Francis is 100% wrong on everything. He always speaks in a balanced and rational manner, unlike the current incumbent.
Could you point those quotes out please?
"The missionaries of the 16th century were convinced that the unbaptized person is lost forever. After the [Second Vatican] Council, this conviction was definitely abandoned. The result was a two-sided, deep crisis. Without this attentiveness to the salvation, the Faith loses its foundation."
A “profound evolution of Dogma” with respect to the Dogma that there is no salvation outside the Church, resulting in the loss of “any motivation for a future missionary commitment... Why should you try to convince the people to accept the Christian faith when they can be saved even without it?”.
“Even less acceptable is the solution proposed by the pluralistic theories of religion, for which all religions, each in its own way, would be ways of salvation and, in this sense, must be considered equivalent in their effects”
What do these quotes have to do with Francis’ mercy wrt communion for the divorced and remarried?
Nothing that I can see. If, by "Francis-mercy", you mean the issue of Communion for the divorced and remarried, then you are correct. Benedict didn't address this.
I'm using the term in a somewhat wider context. For me, "Francis-mercy" means the Gospel according to Francis. Its essential feature is the attempt to widen "the narrow gate" spoken of by Jesus in the Gospel in the name of "mercy". It certainly includes the question of Communion for the divorced and remarried but is not limited to that issue. It also includes the issue of the conversion of non-believers, non-Catholics, proselytism....the sorts of things Benedict was talking about and which Francis is always railing against.
Gotcha.
I was referring to communion to divorced and remarried simply because that was the main focus of this thread. It will be interesting to see what, if anything, Benedict says in response to the Exhortation once it becomes public.
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