Posted on 10/14/2014 1:51:48 PM PDT by NKP_Vet
In a candid interview Monday, Cardinal Raymond Burke voiced the concerns of many of his brothers in the Synod hall and lay Catholic activists throughout the world that the public presentation of the Synod has been manipulated by the organizers in the General Secretariat.
He strongly criticized yesterday’s Relatio post disceptationem, or “report after the debate,” which the Catholic lay group Voice of the Family had called a “betrayal,” saying it proposes views that "faithful shepherds ... cannot accept," and betrays an approach that is "not of the Church." He called on Pope Francis to issue a statement defending Catholic teaching.
“In my judgment, such a statement is long overdue,” he told Catholic World Report’s Carl Olsen. “The debate on these questions has been going forward now for almost nine months, especially in the secular media but also through the speeches and interviews of Cardinal Walter Kasper and others who support his position.”
“The faithful and their good shepherds are looking to the Vicar of Christ for the confirmation of the Catholic faith and practice regarding marriage which is the first cell of the life of the Church,” he added.
The relatio, he said, proposes views that many Synod fathers “cannot accept,” and that they “as faithful shepherds of the flock cannot accept.”
The document, among its most controversial propositions, asks whether “accepting and valuing [homosexuals’] sexual orientation” could align with Catholic doctrine; proposes allowing Communion for divorced-and-remarried Catholics on a “case-by-case basis”; and says pastors should emphasize the “positive aspects” of lifestyles the Church considers gravely sinful, including civil remarriage after divorce and premarital cohabitation.
“Clearly, the response to the document in the discussion which immediately followed its presentation manifested that a great number of the Synod Fathers found it objectionable,” Burke told Olsen.
“The document lacks a solid foundation in the Sacred Scriptures and the Magisterium. In a matter on which the Church has a very rich and clear teaching, it gives the impression of inventing a totally new, what one Synod Father called ‘revolutionary’, teaching on marriage and the family. It invokes repeatedly and in a confused manner principles which are not defined, for example, the law of graduality.”
Burke lamented that the bishops’ interventions are not published, while the General Secretariat chose to publish the controversial relatio, which was intended as a merely provisional summary of the first week that is under review by the fathers this week.
“All of the information regarding the Synod is controlled by the General Secretariat of the Synod which clearly has favored from the beginning the positions expressed in the Relatio post disceptationem of yesterday morning,” he said.
“While the individual interventions of the Synod Fathers are not published, yesterday’s Relatio, which is merely a discussion document, was published immediately and, I am told, even broadcast live. You do not have to be a rocket scientist to see the approach at work, which is certainly not of the Church.”
While critics of Burke's public interventions in the Synod debates have portrayed him as representing a fringe, he was elected by his brother bishops to moderate one of the three English-speaking small groups discussing the relatio this week.
Catholic ping!
Kinda like embezzling from one's employer has the “positive aspect” of sharpening one's bookkeeping skills.
Then came the decision to keep episcopal interventions anonymous with only a short press briefing at the end of each day and finally, yesterday's fiasco which went far beyond Kasper's original thesis and into the area of valuing homosexual "orientation".
There are two possible conclusions regarding +Francis' involvement in all of this, which is the real elephant in the room.
Either he's orchestrating this or he's winking at those who are.
Kasper, Wuerl, Forte et al., are faithless apostates but we've known that for some time and it's not the big story here. The story is +Francis.
Can the Pope be wrong? What does this do for infallibility?
Francis hasn't issued any statement as being "ex cathedra," so infallibility isn't in play here.
This POPE makes me uneasy.
Lets all do the Vatican Rag http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvhYqeGp_Do
Yet.
It's not unprecedented. At the height of the Arian heresy, it's estimated that there were more pro-Arian bishops than anti.
And during the debate at the Council of Nicea, St. Nicholas punched Arius in the face.
Yes, that St. Nicholas.
Now THAT’s funny. 8-)
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Agreed!
It started in February with Kasper being invited by the Pope to present his position paper on Communion for the remarried to a special consistory.
One could argue the Pope started the fix even sooner with his press interview on the plane, coming back from WYD in Brazil.
About the problem of Communion to those persons in a second union, that the divorced might participate in Communion, there is no problem. When they are in a second union, they can't.
I believe that it is necessary to keep this within the entirety of pastoral care of marriage. And for this it is a problem. But also... a parenthesis, the Orthodox have a different praxis. They follow the theology of economy, as they called it, and they give a second chance, they allow it. But I believe that this problem, and I close the parenthesis, must be studied in the framework of marriage pastoral ministry.
And for this, two things: first, one of the themes to be consulted with the eight of this council of cardinals, with whom we'll be meeting the 1st, 2nd and 3rd of October, is how to move ahead in the pastoral care of marriage, and this problem will come up there. Pope Francis 7/28/2013
Since that moment, Pope Francis has unleashed his Hound from Hell, Cardinal Kasper, and has yet to reign the beast in.
That’s really funny! Thanks.
Spelling Nazi says it’s “rein,” not “reign.”
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