Posted on 11/27/2015 3:58:10 PM PST by markomalley
Clergy who call for divorced and civilly remarried Catholics to receive holy Communion are effectively lying because they convey the message that a “continuous violation” of their “sacramental bonds” can become “ultimately a positive reality," Bishop Athanasius Schneider has said.
Speaking last night at the Lepanto Foundation in Rome on the theme of the “unchangeable truth about marriage and sexuality,” the auxiliary bishop of Astana, Kazakhstan, said that in order to “cover their evident lie and contradiction to the Word of God,” these clergy “protect themselves with the masque of using the concept of ‘Divine mercy’ and sentimental expressions like: ‘to open a door’, ‘to be pastorally creative’, ‘to be open to the surprises of the Holy Spirit’.”
Bishop Schneider, who has become a leading and respected defender of doctrine in recent years, said Georges Orwell’s words on political language were applicable to such an approach (Orwell said such language is "designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind”).
The bishop, speaking in response to some senior Church leaders who after the Synod on the Family have continued to push for holy Communion for remarried divorcees, reminded the audience that “again and again” the Church has faced attempts to “reinterpret the crystal-clear and uncompromising teaching of Christ on the indissolubility of marriage and on the iniquity of any sexual act outside marriage, being such acts against the will of God.”
He cited various examples through history, such as Martin Luther’s view of marriage as a mere “worldly thing”, the Orthodox Church’s circumvention of indissolubility through ‘oikonomia’, King Henry VIII’s break with Rome, and Napoleon’s marginalization of cardinals opposed to his second marriage.
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BTTT for Bishop Athanasius Schneider!
This sounds great, but it’s too bad that the church doesn’t apply this thinking in other areas.
BTTT
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