Posted on 01/22/2017 6:04:50 AM PST by marshmallow
ROME, January 17, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) — It would be equivalent to a “suicidal act” and “cutting the ground from under his feet” if the pope were to teach that conscience is the ultimate guide in moral matters, trumping even Catholic teaching as well as Divine Revelation, Cardinal Carlo Caffarra, one of the dubia signers, said in an explosive new interview.
“That is why among the five dubia, dubium number five is the most important,” Caffarra said in a January 14 wide-ranging interview with Il Foglio.
The cardinal discussed the reasons he, along with three other Cardinals, asked Francis in September to clarify the ambiguity in the Pope’s April Exhortation Amoris Laetitia. Among the yes-or-no questions dealing with the indissolubility of marriage, the sacraments, and moral norms, question five asks if one can ever use “conscience” to justify engaging in intrinsically evil acts.”
The Cardinal's comments reflect those of Cardinal Burke, another Dubia signer, who said last month that a pope who commits formal heresy "would cease, by that act, to be the pope."
In the interview, Cardinal Caffarra defended submitting the dubia, stating that “only a blind man can deny” that there “exists in the Church a great confusion, uncertainty, and insecurity caused by some paragraphs of Amoris laetitia.
“The division among pastors is the cause of the letter we sent to Francis,” he said.
He made it clear that it is the pope’s exhortation, not the dubia that caused the confusion. Much of the confusion is exemplified by various bishops interpreting the exhortation in contradictory ways, he said, with some allowing communion for adulterers, and others forbidding it.
“There was only one way to bring it to an end: to ask the author of the text — which is interpreted in two contradictory ways — which......
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I just don’t have any words....
I have heard many people over my lifetime do bad things they justify by saying their conscience is clear.
The human heart is broken and has no understanding without guidance and a firm foundation in God’s law.
This is becoming formal heresy.
And yet he has no problem with the lack of attention to traditional Catholic doctrine found in the so-called "pastoral" council, Vatican II.
He’s right, if that position is accompanied by solid Biblical teaching. We are damaged as sinful beings and cannot be certain what we believe to be correct. We need to lean on Scripture all the time.
However, I don’t believe that’s what he means.
“I have heard many people over my lifetime do bad things they justify by saying their conscience is clear.”
Me too. Anything and everything can be justified in the mind of a frail human being. Dangerous territory we’re in.
Why are you worried? We have been assured by someone that, if only we ignore Divine commandments, we “will be as gods, knowing both good and evil.”
This crew is heading down the road of apostasy, pray for their seeing the true light.
Good insight. And Satan is very “spiritual,” too. Entirely spiritual, as a matter of fact.
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