 Karl -- I mean Cardinal -- Marx (Sign language?) |
Posted on 08/09/2017 6:55:10 PM PDT by marshmallow
LOUISVILLE, Kentucky, August 9, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) -- U.S. Cardinal Raymond Burke has criticized German Cardinal Reinhard Marx for saying that Germany’s recent legalization of homosexual “marriage” is of no major concern for the Catholic Church in that country.
Burke, one of the Church’s leading canon law experts, spoke about Marx as he outlined how evils now commonly accepted in the West’s “ravaged” culture have managed to infiltrate the Church, passing from the shepherds to the sheep. He made the comments at the July 22 “Church Teaches Forum” in Louisville.
“But, in a diabolical way, the confusion and error which has led human culture in the way of death and destruction has also entered into the Church, so that she draws near to the culture without seeming to know her own identity and mission, without seeming to have the clarity and the courage to announce the Gospel of Life and Divine Love to the radically secularized culture,” he said.
He cited as an example the recent remarks from Cardinal Marx, who is the president of the German bishops’ conference.
In a July 14 interview with Augsburger Allgemeine, Marx said he did not see Germany’s June 30 vote that legalized same-sex “marriage” as a defeat for the Church because developing the concept of marriage and the family was not just a church matter but something that belongs as well to the secular state.
“The Christian position is one thing. It’s another thing to ask if I can make all the Christian moral concepts (state) laws,” he said.
Marx then expressed “regret” that the Church “did nothing to oppose homosexuals from being prosecuted” under laws rescinded in 1994 that criminalized homosexual behavior.
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Burke bump.
The Catholic Church goes deeper into the abyss every day.
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Karl -- I mean Cardinal -- Marx (Sign language?) |
Fearless.
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