Posted on 06/01/2017 3:02:37 PM PDT by ebb tide
June 01, 2017
Cardinal Christoph Schönborn of Vienna said that he is not worried by conflicting intepretations of Amoris Laetitia, because it will take years for the Church to absorb the proper understanding of the papal document.
“Reception is always a long process,” Cardinal Schönborn said, in an interview with John Allen of Crux. He remarked that the implementation of the councils of Trent and Nicea took more than 200 years, and “the reception of Vatican II is far from over.” He suggested that the understanding of Amoris Laetitia would require a similar process.
Questioned about the guidelines that have been issued by several episcopal conferences, the Austrian cardinal said that “it’s still too early” to set rules for implementation of Amoris Laetitia. However, he rejected the idea that the papal document relaxes Church teachings on marriage. In some regions of the world, he said, it would “lead into a stricter attitude.” This might be true in the West, he said, where “we are rather tempted by laxity.”
Cardinal Schönborn said that Pope Francis seeks in Amoris Laetitia to find a middle path between two extremes: “The rigorsit knows everything in advance and those who are lax let go of everything.”
Trump’s tweet of covfefe had more clarity than Amoris Laetitia
Ya know, if a doctrinal instrument is so poorly conceived and written that it will take years to interpret, then it needs to be circular filed and its author(s) assigned to less demanding tasks, and a new document produced by a more competent author or authors.
Dear Pope Francis....
perhaps you could withdraw and rewrite your encyclical?
Because,
...”G-d is not a G-d of confusion...”
2 Corinthians 14:33
Darn, I already set out a fresh fruit salad for the party!
I was born and raised Roman Catholic.
My Pope was a Polish Guy who teamed up with a President and a Prime Minister to bring down a communist Evil Empire.
THIS guy, however.... not so much.
#Notdabossofme
It will take years to explain it away.
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