Posted on 10/23/2014 8:28:29 AM PDT by marshmallow
In an interview with the German newspaper Die Welt published today, Cardinal Walter Kasper reiterates in a less controversial form his comments on Africa. He says:
It’s different in Africa than it often is in Europe. Everyone knows that. What I wanted to say was: I would never involve myself in Africa, and conversely African bishops are not able to judge the situation in Europe as we ourselves are.
Kasper’s viewpoint was also taken up by Cardinal Reinhard Marx of Munich, who said in the Synod:
What the Catholic Church is trying to do is a sociological adventure. . . Finding a common language on such existential themes as sexuality and marriage in Africa, Asia, Manhattan and (the Roman district of) Trastevere is actually not possible.
The Germans have a point. As Michael Brendan Dougherty observed, “when you rule out Scripture and Tradition, yeah, it becomes hard to find a universal language in the Church.”
One also runs the risk of offending Africans when your insistence that they not speak to the European situation echoes the dismissals they hear in other contexts. As Obianuju Ekeocha wrote in reply to Kasper’s remarks:
As an African woman now living in Europe, I am used to having my moral views and values ignored or put down as an “African issue” or an “African view point.” I have had people imply that I am not sophisticated or evolved enough in my understanding of human sexuality, homosexuality, marriage, sanctity of human life from conception, openness to life and the so called “over-population.” So as a result, in many circles, any contributions I make in discussions are placed in second or third rung.
The real problem with Kasper and Marx’s rhetoric is that it uses cultural difference as a stalking horse for doctrinal change. The incidental, no doubt accidental.....
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Kasper must be queer...
Bwana ma-coo-bah!
That is the assholiest comment I have read on Freerepublic in a long time.
What a truly stupid thing to say.
Certainly a deeper thinker than you.
Ccould it be that all the secularism in the German church is why there are so few worshipping?
Perhaps the Germans could take a lesson from the Africans.
Maybe, but he’s definitely senile.
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