Posted on 01/25/2019 3:56:39 PM PST by ebb tide
Cardinal Kevin Farrell says Pope Francis’ family life teaching is being well received by Catholics across the world and is only opposed by those who want to go back to a Church that “never existed”. The cardinal, who is Prefect of the Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life says that Amoris Laetitia does not need to be “corrected”. It is, he stresses, very clearly rooted in the gospel and sets out how to accompany married couples and families.
“From what I see from information that is coming to us from the conferences of bishops and lay groups involved in marriage and family life in different parts of the world, it is very well received, overwhelmingly well received,” the cardinal told The Tablet.
“There are some elements in the United States, on the continent of Africa, and some here in Europe - but not very strong - where they have a vision of going back to a Church that I believe never existed. Deep down this is an ideological conflict.”
The 71-year-old Irish-American prelate disagrees with those who believe Amoris Laetitia has muddied the waters of Church teaching by opening the door for divorced and remarried Catholics to receive communion.
“It’s not just a question of going up to a priest and saying ‘can I receive communion?’ It is a process, a process that could take one year, could take two years, could take three years. It depends on the people. Fundamentally, this is about encountering people where they are,” he explains.
“You have two people who are divorced and remarried. Are they outside the Church forever? There’s no redemption whatsoever? None? You mean to tell me that Christ and Christ’s redemption didn’t work for those people? No.”
In 2016 four cardinals, two of which have since died, publicly released a series of questions - or “dubia” - to the Pope calling on him to clarify his teaching, and event threatening to correct it.
“There is no correction to be made,” the cardinal says. “There is nothing in ‘Amoris Laetitia’ that is contrary to the Gospel. What does Francis do? He goes to the gospel. Look at every chapter, its straight out of one of the gospels or the letters of St Paul.”
The cardinal has been in charge of his dicastery - a merger between two pontifical councils – since the autumn of 2016 wants to see ordinary Catholics taking on leadership roles in the Church, and for the work of accompanying married couples and families to be led by lay people.
His remit includes helping to implement Amoris Laetitia, organising the World Meeting of Families and World Youth Days. He is currently in Panama alongside Pope Francis during the current World Youth Day celebration.
“It’s so important that lay people take responsibility for the Church, and for the future of the Church,” he said adding that running the family life dicastery could be done by a non-ordained woman or man.
During the World Meeting of Families in Dublin last August, he explained, 80 per cent of those giving presentations were lay people and married couples, while in Philadelphia, three years before, just 20 per cent had been lay. He added that 34,000 signed up to the theological courses on offer, double the number in Philadelphia.
“We wanted to ensure that Amoris Laetitia was dealt with from a practical point of view, not from a theological-canonical point of view. And, therefore, I didn’t include any courses on Canon Law. None,” he added.
The cardinal says that while in recent years popes have encountered opposition, what the current Pope is facing is “unprecedented”. It is, he says, “vicious” and shows “where our culture is”. But he argues Francis has put the Church on a path from which there is no exit.
“I would say that he has put the Church on an evangelical road,” the cardinal says at the end of our discussion. “I don’t mean ‘non-Catholic’, I mean evangelical, like the Gospel.”
Heresy from from one of Bergoglio's "princes of the church".
It's been 852 days now, and Bergoglio has still not addressed the dubia of the four Catholic cardinals.
The cardinal says that while in recent years popes have encountered opposition, what the current Pope is facing is “unprecedented”. It is, he says, “vicious” and shows “where our culture is”. But he argues Francis has put the Church on a path from which there is no exit.
Heresy
bergoglio: Homo in Chief
Jesuit Anti-Pope Bergolio can go ESAD, but he would probably enjoy the "ES" part of that too much.
Bergolio is about as valid as a pope as Obama was as valid as a President
Here is a great video explaining his illegitimacy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gh_CIoVvaOk
Dope Francis puts socialism ahead of Christianity.
The homosexuals have a death grip on the Church. “Pope” Francis has done nothing, absolutely nothing, despite the overwhelming evidence to purge the Church of this inherent evil. He protects and promotes them.
Remember this Farrell guy roomed with either Weurl or McCarrick (I don’t recall which) for six years and “had no idea” anything inappropriate was going on.
Farrell was McCarrick’s longtime roommate. Ponder that for a minute or two. What sort of person shares an apartment for years with a homosexual predator?
Cardinal Feral the child molester thinks orthodoxy is an ideology.
Opposed by a church that never existed?
Does he mean to wipe Christ’s divinity from existence? TheGod who is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow? Only by reducing Christ to a Prophet will the wreckers be able to destroy their enemies.
* see China as the prototype. The PTB managed to destroy the visible signs. What is in people’s hearts and souls is not so easily erased.
What Francis initiated there is a horror.
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