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 ‘Synod’
German philosopher criticises Pope’s cult of spontaneity
Friday, May 1st, 2015
A leading German philosopher has criticised what he called Pope Francis’s cult of spontaneity and his favouring of deeds over ideas. In an interview in German Catholic journal Herder Korrespondenz, Professor Robert Spaemann said the Pope’s cult of spontaneity is not helpful. “In the Vatican, some people are already sighing: ‘Today, he has already again Read more
German Catholics fault idealised Church image of family
Tuesday, April 28th, 2015
German Catholics have criticised Vatican questions ahead of the synod on the family as proceeding from an idealised image of the family. This was the main criticism in a summary of replies of German Catholics to the 46 questions of the second Vatican questionnaire on the family. Germany’s Catholic bishops released the summary of responses, 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
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
Kasper hopes for development of tradition at family synod
Friday, March 27th, 2015
Cardinal Walter Kasper hopes this year’s synod on the family will develop the Church’s tradition in the area of pastoral support of divorced people. Cardinal Kasper was speaking at the England launch of his book “Pope Francis’s Revolution of Tenderness and Love”. Bishops attending the synod, scheduled for October 4-25, will be called to discern Read more
US bishops’ head to focus on unity, integrity at synod
Thursday, March 19th, 2015
The president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops has said he will take a message on integrity and unity to the synod on the family. Archbishop Joseph Kurtz is one of four US prelates who will attend the synod in October. In an interview with the National Catholic Register, he was asked what Read more
US cardinal slams Church ‘confusion’ under Francis
Thursday, March 19th, 2015
An American cardinal has publicly criticised Pope Francis in a documentary to be screened on Irish television next week. On “Pope Francis – The Sinner”, Cardinal Raymond Burke says that since Pope Francis’s election two years ago, “there really just is growing confusion about what the Church teaches”. When Cardinal Burke’s term as prefect of 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
Single Catholics overlooked by family synod
Tuesday, March 10th, 2015A council of the French bishops’ conference says adult Catholic single people have been overlooked by the synod on the family. The bishops’ Family and Society Council is preparing an analysis of the situation of adult Catholics who are neither married nor in religious life. Bishop Luc Ravel, who founded a network for single Catholics, Read more