How they did it in Sweden.
Posted on 04/24/2016 10:25:56 AM PDT by marshmallow
On 22 April, Cardinal Walter Kasper gave yet another interview about Pope Francis and his reforms. This time, he spoke with the German regional newspaper Aachener Zeitung. In this interview, the German cardinal made some candid — indeed, bold — statements which are very important in the context of the current situation of the Catholic Church.
Kasper speaks about the further Church-reform plans of Pope Francis and his intention “not to preserve everything as it has been of old.” With Pope Francis, “things are not any more so abstract and permeated with suspicion, as it was the case in earlier times” within the Church. When asked whether there is also a new tone within the Church, Kasper answers: “Yes, a new tone.” He also responds in a more positive way to the question as to whether the German Bishops’ Conference now have a “tail wind” and says: “Certainly.” And he continues, in the context of the question about “remarried” divorcees, by saying that Pope Francis has agreed with him about making some “humane decisions.” The German cardinal recounts how he once told Pope Francis about a priest whom he knew who had decided not to forbid a “remarried” mother to receive Holy Communion on the day of the First Holy Communion of her daughter. Cardinal Kasper himself concurred with that priest’s decision, saying: “That priest was fully right.” About his further conversation with the pope, he added these words: “I told this to the pope and he confirmed my attitude [with the following words]: ‘That is where the pastor has to make the decision.’” Kasper concludes: “There is now a tail wind to help solve such situations in a humane way.”
Kasper also says in this interview with regard to the admittance of “remarried” divorcees to the Sacraments: “The.....
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This Pope needs retirement.
What pope? That guy the liberal “media” installed in the Vatican? He ain’t no pope. He’s a liberal activist.
The Pope must diet.
Pope Che.’
Was this Cardinal involved in the hiring of this Pope? This pope is only doing what was set in motion decades ago.
Look for this Pope to retire come after this year, after he turns 80.
Ah, yes, the church that never changes......
No way. He’s going to have to be carried out in a pine box...and only then after he has eliminated all the good cardinal electors and chosen his successor.
“Look for this Pope to retire come after this year, after he turns 80.”
I’d love to see this happen, but don’t know why you expect this to be the case. I predict this Pope will try to inflict as much damage on the Church for as long as he can.
Sounds a lot like old Hope-n-Change.
He said something last year that his time as Pope will be a short one, that he also wants to be able to eat pizza in peace.
Are you sure about that?
Calling it quits has become the new trend.
How they did it in Sweden.
Well, like Maxwell, the Vatican does have a silver hammer (that they reserve for popes...)
Not with Francis. I read an article today about how the orthodox bishops who have hit the mandatory retirement age, 75, have their resignations accepted immediately...meanwhile, the heterodox who are Friends of Francis can stay in their posts indefinitely, and many of them are now in fact approaching 80.
Francis isn’t going anywhere.
Well figure this one out:
And this:
http://www.newsmax.com/EdwardPentin/Pope-Francis-Pope-Benedict-Vatican/2015/07/07/id/653769/
That is hardly the plan. Remember, Pope Benedict didn’t die, he wasn’t even ill. He was forced out by the “liberation theology” faction so they could install Pope Marx the First.
http://www.onepeterfive.com/vatican-conspiracy-against-pope-benedict-for-pope-francis/
Vatican Conspiracy Against Pope Benedict, For Pope Francis?
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