Posted on 04/28/2016 5:33:59 AM PDT by marshmallow
April 25, 2016 (LifeSiteNews) – Two of the Vatican’s most senior prelates, both known for taking a strong stand for the Church’s tradition at the Synod on the Family, are declining interviews on Pope Francis’ controversial apostolic exhortation.
Vatican reporter Edward Pentin reports that neither Cardinal Gerhard Müller, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, nor Cardinal Robert Sarah, prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship, has commented on Amoris Laetitia or given any media interviews about the document.
Müller and Sarah have repeatedly spoken in the past about the Church’s teaching on the indissolubility of marriage and that teaching’s implications for those in second unions whose previous marriages the Church has not declared null.
LifeSiteNews has also spoken to other cardinals who declined to comment. Sources close to the Vatican have indicated that some cardinals are reticent to comment out of concern that to do so could negatively affect the institution of the papacy.
In the wake of the exhortation’s release, German Cardinal Walter Kasper, who has spent much of Pope Francis’s papacy advocating for a radical shift in the Church’s official approach to those in unions it considers objectively sinful, celebrated the document. Kasper said it allows for Holy Communion for remarried divorcees in some cases.
In his first reaction to Amoris Laetitia, Cardinal Raymond Burke, the patron of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta and the former prefect of the Apostolic Signatura, wrote that although the exhortation is “a non-magisterial document,” it must be interpreted through the lens of magisterial Catholic doctrine. Cardinal Burke has not yet offered his appraisal of the document itself, however.
Over the weekend, Bishop Athanasius Schneider, Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Maria Santissima in Astana, Kazakhstan, became the first bishop to publicly criticize the document. The bishop.......
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Priests and cardinals are the ultimate yes-men. They are sheep. If they ever had an original thought in their lives they have long forgotten it. The pope is the ultimate boss, and the troops have no say in anything.
St. Louis de Monfort, pray for us.
Actually, a lot of diocesan priests, both in the English speaking world (mostly the US and England) and Spanish speaking world (particularly Spain and Mexico) have written articles or blog posts criticizing it. After all, they have to deal with its effects.
This is very brave of them, but frankly the pope and his cabal care as little about their opinion as they do about that of the laity.
We need at least one Cardinal to take the lead.
They’re all cowards. Even Cardinal Burke’s review was lacking. All want to keep their jobs so they kiss Francis’ ring. Click below the read the truth about the blasphemous garbage Amoris Laetitia.
https://www.thecatholicthing.org/2016/04/23/reflections-on-amoris-laetitia/
“There Is No Excuse For Silence.”
https://mundabor.wordpress.com/2016/04/27/there-is-no-excuse-for-silence/
No, they are all Modernists or Modernist sympathizers.
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