Posted on 04/07/2016 6:26:30 AM PDT by marshmallow
Archbishop Henryk Hoser, a synod father at the two Synods on the Family, gives his assessment of the meetings ahead of the publication of 'Amoris laetitia'.
On Friday, the Vatican will publish Pope Francis' summary document on the Synod on the Family 'Amoris laetitia' (the Joy of Love).
Ahead of the post-synodal apostolic exhortation's release, and to gain a sense of what some bishops are thinking about the synod outside the anglosphere, here below is the full text of an interview that Polish Archbishop Henryk Hoser of Warsaw-Praga gave last week to EWTN Germany's Robert Rauhut.
During their discussion, Archbishop Hoser, a synod father at the two meetings, explains what the Church means by "sacramental marriage". He also discusses the debate over holy Communion for remarried divorcees, and speaks of a "pseudo-merciful" attitude in the Church today, deriving from a mentality of "political correctness" which avoids uncomfortable truths. "Correcting the sinner belongs to the good deeds for the soul," he says. "And that is not being practiced today."
Archbishop Hoser also discusses the Catholic understanding of marriage, the need for coherence in Church doctrine and pastoral practice, the lack of St. John Paul II's teaching at the Synod, what Europeans can learn from Africa, "decentralization" of the Church, and the demand for a "new language" in the Church.
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Your Excellency, beginning with a definition: what do we understand today as a Sacramental Marriage from a Catholic perspective? Until now, the understanding was clear, but not every participant in the Synod on the Family sees it so clearly today.
The Sacrament of Marriage is one of the seven Sacraments of the Catholic Church. We see it in the perspective of a covenant. It is an exemplification and incarnation on the level of certain individuals of God's covenant with His.........
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Was that pseudo-mercy not an ongoing theme with Bishop Fulton Sheen?
His vids and recordings are a worthy listen for every person concerned with morality, regardless of religious persuasion.
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