Posted on 03/29/2015 9:49:54 AM PDT by marshmallow
ROME, March 26, 2015 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An influential Swiss cardinal at the Vatican has warned Germany’s bishops that the Church cannot merely adapt itself to the times as some Christians did in order to support the Nazis.
In an interview with the German Catholic newspaper Die Tagespost, Cardinal Kurt Koch firmly (but politely) refuted the proposal of Cardinal Reinhard Marx and Bishop Franz-Josef Bode, both delegates to the upcoming Synod on the Family, that the Catholic Church has to adjust herself more to the “life realities” of Catholics today, and liberalize its attitude toward remarried divorcees. Cardinal Marx had even declared that the German bishops will make their pastoral decisions independently of Rome.
Cardinal Koch’s comments followed a strong rebuke of Cardinal Marx by German Cardinal Paul Josef Cordes. “A Cardinal cannot easily separate the pastoral approach from the teaching,” Cardinal Cordes said, “unless he wants to ignore the binding meaning of Christ's words and the binding words of the Council of Trent.”
Cardinal Koch, president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, said that Bode's words should remind us of a similar historical situation: namely the time of the Third Reich, where the “German Christians” adjusted their faith to the worldview of National Socialism, namely its racist and nationalistic ideas. He said: “Let us think of the 'German Christians' during the time of National Socialism, when, next to the Holy Scripture, they also raised up the Nation and the Race as sources of revelation, against which the Theological Declaration of Barmen (1934) [which rejected the submission of the Protestant churches under the state] protested. We have to differentiate very carefully here and listen with sensitivity to the signs of the times – and to the spirit that reveals itself in these signs: Which ones are signs of the........”
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There are unmistakeable similarities between his public remarks and the heterodox opinions expressed in "God of Surprises" by Gerard Hughes, S.J. Hughes' book was intended as an aid to personal prayer, yet Pope Francis is seemingly attempting to impose the most unsound aspects of Hughes' ideas upon the entire Church.
Trust in the Lord, He will not fail.
-— Keep at something long enough and it ranks right up there with scripture. -—
Some traditions are man made, such as Sola Scriptura. Others are Apostolic in origin.
“Hold fast to the traditions passed on to you by word of mouth or by letter.”
That is one of several references by St. Paul to Sacred Apostolic Tradition.
You’ll find that the early Christians adhered to Apostolic Tradition, and that the statements of the early popes supported it.
Have a Koch and a smile.
That’s not true.
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