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Robert Spaemann said Communion was a 'yes or no' question and that the Pope's document could lead to a schismRobert Spaemann, one of the foremost living Catholic philosophers, has said Amoris Laetitia contradicts the traditional teaching of the Church. In an interview with the German Catholic News Agency, Spaemann says that most of Pope Francis’s apostolic exhortation is in line with the Church’s teaching – although some sections are capable of being read otherwise. However, Spaemann says that paragraph 305, when read with its accompanying footnote 351, “directly contradicts [widerspricht direkt] paragraph 84 of John Paul II’s letter Familiaris Consortio.”...

A Philosopher Reissues the Pope's Wager: To Live as if God Exists He is the German Robert Spaemann. In a book about the "immortal rumor," always alive, always controversial, of the existence of God. Against the backdrop of the advice given by Benedict XVI "also to our friends who do not believe" by Sandro Magister ROMA, October 31, 2008 – A truly important book has just been released in Italy, after its publication in Germany. Its author is a prominent Christian philosopher, Robert Spaemann (in the photo). It is entitled "The Immortal Rumor" ("Das unsterbliche Gerücht" in the original German)....