American Cardinal Raymond Burke has said Cardinal Walter Kasper wants to change the Church’s magisterial teaching. In an interview with German daily Die Welt, Cardinal Burke said “we are all bound by the Magisterium”. “But some synod fathers, above all Cardinal Kasper, want to change it.” Cardinal Kasper’s “merciful” solution for remarried divorcees who wish Read more
Posts Tagged ‘Divorce’
Prelate: Agitators for marriage teaching change are heretics
Friday, April 17th, 2015
A German cardinal has said that those who insistently demand changes in the Church’s teaching on marriage are heretics, even if they are bishops. Cardinal Walter Brandmüller said this in an interview with LifesiteNews last month. The cardinal discussed the issue of Communion for those whose marriages are not recognised by the Church. He was Read more
Conscience, remarriage and holy communion
Friday, April 17th, 2015
Here is something you may have missed. Tucked away in the current print edition of the Tablet, dated April 11 2015, on page 28, is a brief report of certain remarks made in a television interview by Cardinal Christoph Schoenborn of Vienna about the Synod on the family. The Cardinal said, and I transcribe: “I Read more
Divorce notice by Facebook
Tuesday, April 14th, 2015A recent ruling by Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Matthew Cooper is making headlines for allowing Ellanora Baidoo, a nurse living in Brooklyn, NY, to serve her husband divorce papers via Facebook. Does Baidoo’s case mean getting divorced is as easy as changing that “Relationship Status” to “Single” and hitting up your spouse on Messenger? The Read more
Possible future pope contrasts martyrs with laxity in West
Tuesday, April 14th, 2015
A cardinal touted as the next pope has said that while some Christians are being martyred for their faith, some in the West are trying to water down the Gospel. Guinean Cardinal Robert Sarah said this in a book length interview “Dieu ou Rien” (God or Nothing) published in France last month. Italian Vatican commentator Read more
UK cardinal tells priests not to treat synod as a battle
Friday, April 10th, 2015
Cardinal Vincent Nichols of Westminster has told priests not to regard this year’s synod on the family as a “battle”. Speaking at a Chrism Mass at Westminster Cathedral during Holy Week, Cardinal Nichols warned such hostilities can cause “collateral damage”. His comments came a week after he rebuked the 461 priests in England and Wales Read more
Cardinal likens people in irregular relationships to murderers
Tuesday, March 31st, 2015
An American cardinal has placed faithful gay couples, unmarried couples and civilly remarried Catholics in the same category as murderers who are kind. In a lengthy interview on Lifesitenews, Cardinal Raymond Burke criticised what he called confusion in the Church. Cardinal Burke was asked about other prelates who had pointed out good qualities in relationships Read more
Nearly 500 priests call on synod to uphold moral teachings
Friday, March 27th, 2015
Nearly 500 priests in England and Wales have signed a letter calling on the synod on the family to uphold the Church’s “unchanging” moral teaching. The letter also calls on the synod, to be held in October, to resist any moves to allow Communion for the divorced and remarried. A draft text of the letter Read more
Cardinal blasts German church as useless against secularism
Friday, March 27th, 2015
A German cardinal has blasted his nation’s ecclesiastical apparatus as completely unfit to work against growing secularism. According to the Catholic News Agency, Cardinal Paul Josef Cordes wrote a letter to a German language newspaper objecting to statements by two prelates from his homeland. In February, German bishops’ conference president Cardinal Reinhard Marx said: “We Read more
UK priests urged to call on synod to hold line on marriage
Tuesday, March 17th, 2015
Priests in England and Wales are being urged to sign a letter calling on the family synod to resist any move to allow Communion for the civilly remarried. The letter also calls on the synod to proclaim the Church’s “unchanging” moral teaching. The initiative comes from a group of dozen priests, dubbed by The Tablet Read more