Posted on 01/27/2015 9:31:41 AM PST by ebb tide
ROME, 25 January 2015: Comments made by Cardinal Lorenzo Baldisseri have further undermined Church teaching on the indissolubility of marriage says Voice of the Family, an international coalition of pro-family groups.
An international conference, organised by the Pontifical Council for the Family from 22-24 January, was addressed by Cardinal Baldisseri, organiser of the upcoming Synod on the Family. The expressed purpose of the conference was to provide opportunity for around 80 lay groups to assist the PCF provide input into the synod to be held in October 2015.
Baldisseri defended the right of Walter Cardinal Kasper to assert that divorced persons living in unions not recognised by the Church should be permitted to receive Holy Communion. Baldisseri, in response to a concerned pro-family advocate, told delegates that we should not be “shocked” by theologians contradicting Church teaching. The Cardinal said that dogmas can evolve and that there would be no point holding a Synod if we were simply to repeat what had always been said. He also suggested that just because a particular understanding was held 2,000 years ago does not mean that it cannot be challenged.
Patrick Buckley, international envoy for the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children, commented: “The Church teaching on the indissolubility of marriage is founded on the words of Jesus Christ. These words may have been spoken 2,000 years ago but for Catholics they remain nothing other than the unchanging commands of God.”
Maria Madise, Director of Voice of the Family, said: “Cardinal Baldisseri publicly corrected a delegate who protested about attacks on Catholic teaching. It was noticeable that he refused to do the same when the Church’s teaching on contraception was denied a few moments later by a different delegate. The impression given is that the only sin today is to uphold what the Church has always taught.”
Madise continued: “Everything seemed up for discussion at this conference, including questions already clearly resolved by the magisterium of the Church. Such discussion distracts from the task of finding real solutions to the problems faced by real families. Grave evils such as abortion, euthanasia and attacks on parental rights scarcely featured in discussions. These are some of the key issues also omitted from the final report of the 2014 synod. Suffering families are not assisted by the sophistry of professional dissenters, whether clerical or lay.”
Voice of the Family urges everyone to join us in prayer for a clear reaffirmation of Catholic teaching on marriage and family in any outcome document to be produced by the Pontifical Council following this conference.
Ping
“During the 2013 conclave, Cardinal Baldisseri served as its secretary. Signaling his desire to elevate then-Archbishop Baldisseri to the college of cardinals, shortly after his election Pope Francis placed his own red biretta on the secretary’s head.”
http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/cardinal-lorenzo-baldisseri-head-of-the-synod-of-bishops/
But for the hardening of your hearts ... Jesus
I don't need a denomination, a cleric nor a commentary ... my Lord has so described
He that knows to do good and does it not ... to him it is sin ... Paul
I can understand the reasoning behind ...” indissolubility of marriage “ , but sadly, life is not a simple ‘black and white’.
To this, I say, what about this other one.... “thou shall not kill”.
They cannot.
"...For the doctrine of the faith which God has revealed is put forward not as some philosophical discovery capable of being perfected by human intelligence, but as a divine deposit committed to the spouse of Christ to be faithfully protected and infallibly promulgated. Hence, too,that meaning of the sacred dogmas is ever to be maintained which has once been declared by holy mother church, and there must never be any abandonment of this sense under the pretext or in the name of a more profound understanding..."
Decrees of the First Vatican Council, "Dogmatic Constitution on the Catholic Faith"
http://www.papalencyclicals.net/Councils/ecum20.htm#Chapter 2 On revelation
“The Cardinal said that dogmas can evolve
They cannot”
You’re exactly right but they can be ignored. Leftist Jesuits all over the world have been ignoring doctrine for years and getting by with it. Now they have one of their own leading the Church. What part of doctrine he does not like will be summarily ignored under the ruse of “pastoral care”.
"He that is not with me, is against me: and he that gathereth not with me, scattereth."
Each day brings another embarassment from Francis and his leftist cohorts.
Unfortunately, I don’t think Francis, and his merry little band of heretics, feel embarrassed at all. The secular world adores him and he’s sucking it up big time.
Ironically, given the confusion in the US Church, I think some of the most vocal and outspoken opposition to the deconstructionist agenda will come from this country. So it's rather......er.......interesting..... that in the month immediately preceding the Synod, the +Francis roadshow will be.....you guessed it.....in America.
Call me a cynic but I see this as part of an orchestrated campaign in which +Francis will attempt to go over the heads of potential opponents by painting them as naysayers to his populist charm offensive.
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