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Speaking to The Tablet , the German cardinal said that by putting doctrine in a new prospective the document “overcomes a rigid casuistic approach and gives room for Christian freedom of conscience.”
1 posted on 04/16/2016 5:16:47 PM PDT by ebb tide
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To: Salvation; Mrs. Don-o
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“Another thing: yesterday, before sleeping – although not in order to go to sleep! – I read and reread Cardinal Walter Kasper's document and I would like to thank him, as I found it to be a work of profound theology, and also a serene theological reflection. It is pleasant to read serene theology. And I also found what St. Ignacius described as the 'sensus Ecclesiae', love for the Mother Church. ... It did me good, and an idea came to mind – please excuse me, Eminence, if I embarrass you – but my idea was that this is what we call “doing theology on one's knees”. Thank you, thank you”.

2 posted on 04/16/2016 5:19:27 PM PDT by ebb tide (We have a rogue curia in Rome.)
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This is directed at Cardinal Kasper, but one single document does not reverse all the documents and thousands of years of traditions which preceded it ....
3 posted on 04/16/2016 5:26:32 PM PDT by Ken522
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9 posted on 04/16/2016 6:23:05 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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http://remnantnewspaper.com/web/index.php/articles/item/2422-the-apostolic-exhortation-and-the-abolishment-of-the-sin-of-presumption


24 posted on 04/17/2016 10:02:55 PM PDT by NKP_Vet (In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle,stand like a rock ~ T, Jefferson)
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