Posted on 03/20/2015 5:52:16 AM PDT by BlatherNaut
"This does not resolve anything,” Pope Francis has said with regard to the idea of giving communion to the divorced and remarried. Much less if they “want” it, demand it. Because communion “is not a badge, a decoration. No.”
In his latest big interview Jorge Mario Bergoglio threw cold water on the expectations for substantial change in the doctrine and practice of Catholic marriage, which he himself had indirectly fostered:
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“Overblown expectations,” he called them. With no more references to the innovative theses of Cardinal Walter Kasper, which he had repeatedly extolled in the past but now seems to be keeping at a distance.
On the other hand, for some time now Pope Francis has looked with growing attention and esteem at another cardinal theologian, who upholds ideas on the “Gospel of marriage” that are perfectly in line with tradition: the Italian Carlo Caffarra, archbishop of Bologna.
As a professor of moral theology, Caffarra was a specialist in marriage, family, procreation. And this is why John Paul II wanted him at the head of the pontifical institute for studies on marriage and the family that he created in 1981 at the Lateran university, following the 1980 synod dedicated precisely to these themes.
So a stir was created last October by the exclusion of any representative of that institute - which since its foundation has spread all over the world - from the first session of the synod on the family.
(Excerpt) Read more at chiesa.espresso.repubblica.it ...
You beat me by 2 minutes. : )
Fat-fingered on a mobile, no less. :)
Carlo Caffara, one of the 5 "anti-Kasper" cardinals who wrote that famous book, and who this author (Sandro Magistra) says will "certainly" be appointed to participate in the Synod, makes this essential point:
"The first dimension of the anthropological question is the following: it is well known that according to Catholic teaching the sacrament of marriage coincides with natural marriage. I think that there can no longer be any theological doubt about the coinciding of the two... "Now what the Church meant and means by “natural marriage” has been demolished in contemporary culture. If I may put it this way, the “matter” has been removed from the sacrament of marriage. "Theologians, canonists, and pastors are rightly asking about the faith-sacrament relationship of marriage. But there is a more radical problem. Those who are asking for sacramental marriage, are they capable of natural marriage? Has there been such devastation, not of their faith but of their humanity, that they are no longer capable of marriage?" |
This is stunning. Caffara says that we are not only losing our marital "sacramentality," we are losing our humanity. The human, natural aspect of marriage has been eroded right out of the culture.
As a parent I can say this: it's not only a challenge to raise our kids to be Catholic, or Christian, it's a challenge to raise the to be human.
There's much more, very thought-provoking stuff.
And if Pope Francis is really getting on board with Caffara, as Sandro Magister says --- well, I want to see it and parse it sentence by sentence.
I wonder where we can get a transcript of Pope Francis' "latest big interview" that Magister talks about?
Encouraging news. Maybe were seeing some visible results from all the prayers for the Pope.
Such a question seems to imply that the human psyche may mutate. There is a Teilhardian taint to such speculations.
If we examine the question through the eyes of faith, it becomes clear that the root of the problem is a rejection of God's grace ("And where sin abounded, grace did more abound") rather than an evolution of the human mind.
"For by grace you are saved through faith, and that not of yourselves, for it is the gift of God"
CCC #1993 Justification establishes cooperation between God's grace and man's freedom. On man's part it is expressed by the assent of faith to the Word of God, which invites him to conversion, and in the cooperation of charity with the prompting of the Holy Spirit who precedes and preserves his assent:
When God touches man's heart through the illumination of the Holy Spirit, man himself is not inactive while receiving that inspiration, since he could reject it; and yet, without God's grace, he cannot by his own free will move himself toward justice in God's sight.
As a parent I can say this: it's not only a challenge to raise our kids to be Catholic, or Christian, it's a challenge to raise the to be human.
I thought they were born with the human part in full working order. :) Seriously, drastic times call for drastic measures. Homeschool until college if at all possible, and prepare them for the evil influences they will encounter in the world.
"For the rest, brethren, pray for us, that the word of God may run, and may be glorified, even as among you; And that we may be delivered from importunate and evil men; for all men have not faith."
And all the Rosaries he has said that he prays.
I think if you'll go back to the link and read the whole thing, another interpretation will emerge: not that the human psyche itself is mutating or evolving, but that we have created a culture which is not only anti-Christian, but anti-human.
The idea here is that in her defense of the Biblical, traditional and historic doctrines about sex, gender and marriage, the Church is defending, not only authentic Christianity, but authentic humanity.
There has never before been such a radical attack on human nature, as this present thrust of sex-and-gender deconstruction, which is rapidly acquiring the coercive power of law. They are kicking apart the structural elements of humanity.
This does not emanate from "evolution," but from the Father of Lies
Denial of the natural law (in the form of “sex-and-gender deconstruction”) is an attack on God’s plan for creation, which is, in essence, a rejection of God. “The natural law is nothing other than the light of understanding placed in us by God; through it we know what we must do and what we must avoid. God has given this light or law at the creation”. (St. Thomas Aquinas)
“Authentic humanity” can’t exist in the absence of cooperation with the Divine Will. When God’s grace is widely rejected, the result is nihilism.
Exactly. That’s what’s being imposed on us now: sexual nihilism.
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