Posted on 03/14/2013 1:54:50 PM PDT by marshmallow
Over the past dozen years, magazines associated with the Communion and Liberation movement have on several occasions published remarks by Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Buenos Aires.
In a 2009 interview (“We are not owners of the gifts of the Lord”), the cardinal emphasized that the children of unmarried couple should not be denied baptism as a matter of policy. On the contrary, he said, the baptism of the child, when accompanied by catechesis, can lead the parents to seek marriage in the Church.
“The supreme law is the salvation of souls,” he said, noting he was following the relevant provisions of the Code of Canon Law. “To us here that would be like closing the doors of the Church. The child has no responsibility for the marital state of its parents. And then, the baptism of children often becomes a new beginning for parents … [The sacraments] are not performances, or the conquests of priests or bishops.”
“Everything in our life, today just as in Jesus’ time, begins with an encounter,” Cardinal Bergoglio said in a 2001 tribute to a book by Father Luigi Giussani, the founder of Communion and Liberation. “An encounter with this Man, the carpenter of Nazareth, a man like all men and yet different. The first ones, John, Andrew, and Simon, felt themselves to be looked at into their very depths, read in their innermost being, and in them sprang forth a surprise, a wonder that instantly made them feel bound to Him, made them feel different.”
At times quoting Giussani in the second paragraph below, the cardinal added:
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It is the heartfelt response to a surprising, unforeseeable, “unjust” mercy (I shall return to this adjective). The surprising, unforeseeable, “unjust” mercy, using purely human criteria, of one who knows me, knows my betrayals and loves me just the same, appreciates me, embraces me, calls me again, hopes in me, and expects from me. This is why the Christian conception of morality is a revolution; it is not a ‘never falling down’ but an ‘always getting up again.’
The sins of the parents are NOT passed onto the child.
“The supreme law is the salvation of souls,” he said, noting he was following the relevant provisions of the Code of Canon Law. “To us here that would be like closing the doors of the Church. The child has no responsibility for the marital state of its parents. And then, the baptism of children often becomes a new beginning for parents … [The sacraments] are not performances, or the conquests of priests or bishops.”
“The supreme law is the salvation of souls.” Amen.
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