Kasper Still Playing His Part?

Cardinal Kasper on German Synod: ‘Many Wonder Whether All This is Still Entirely Catholic’ | National Catholic Register @NCRegister https://t.co/o0ozDgJMrI

— Edward Pentin (@EdwardPentin) September 23, 2021

Cardinal Kasper on the EF

"I know many people are scandalized when they come to St. Peter’s in Rome early in the morning and see that on many altars priests celebrating the 'old Mass' without any altar boy and no participation of the faithful" — Cardinal Kasper https://t.co/Sx4jUWf9pM

— Edward Pentin (@EdwardPentin) July 23, 2021

The problem is not the EF but Latin liturgial praxis, justified by Latin sacramental theology (and Latin canon law). How has Kasper been the change he wants to see?

The Friendly Geist Doesn't Approve

TFW the German Synodal Way has lost Cardinal Kasper... https://t.co/Fx3dXgI3DK

— Professor Pecknold (@ccpecknold) June 9, 2021

Keeping Up Appearances

of fostering "dialogue"...

Happy Birthday to the Pope Emeritus!! Then-Cardinal Ratzinger was first published in @americamag twenty years ago, in the issue of November 19, 2001. https://t.co/7UmEGybSdb

— Matt Malone, S.J. (@Americaeditor) April 16, 2021

A Complaint about the Lack of Collegiality

What Church has Cardinal Marx been in all these years? Since when does the Pope or the Church need a quorum to issue a teaching? This is why the papacy exists: to teach, correct and protect doctrine. Endless synods are not practical or necessary. Thoughts? https://t.co/gHdJ4XnPbi

— Raymond Arroyo (@RaymondArroyo) July 27, 2020

Cardinal Kasper aptly defends the Vatican instruction on parish reform against German critics: Reform begins with conversion - and that is something German bishops do not like to hear. Good for Kasper to speak out! https://t.co/0hckgGcoHc #Theology #Vatican #Parish #Catholic

— Ulrich L. Lehner (@ulrichlehner) July 27, 2020

Of Course He Would Say This

CNA: Cardinal Kasper says Mueller’s manifesto spreads ‘confusion and division’

CNA: German bishops express “surprise” over Vatican decision on communion for Protestants

Cardinal Kasper admits that in German dioceses “there already is a widespread practice of non-catholic spouses, who consider themselves serious Christians, stepping up to [receive] Communion, without any bishops, who after all know of this practice, thus far voicing concerns.”

"Msgr." John Strynkowski Responds to Fr. Weinandy

An open letter to Father Weinandy, from his predecessor, on ‘Amoris Laetitia’ and Pope Francis

Related:
Hypocrisy marks DiNardo's inadequate response to Weinandy by Michael Sean Winters

Dr Anna Silvas on Amoris Laetitia

via a comment at Fr. Hunwicke:

Dr Silvas currently resides in Armidale, NSW, and is a member of the Romanian Greek Catholic Church, in union with Rome. She is an Adjunct Senior Research Fellow in the School of Humanities at the University of New England, Australia, and also a Professorial Adjunct Professorial Fellow at the Australian Catholic University, and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. Her undergraduate studies were in Greek and Latin, Hebrew and Aramaic/Syriac. Her research has concentrated on late antiquity, particularly on the Cappadocian Fathers, the development of Christian monasticism, the spirituality of ascetic women in early and medieval Christianity. Her published works include translation of ancient literature as well as monographs. Her magnum opus was a first critical edition of the Syriac Questions of the Brothers. She has also been associated with the JP Institute for Marriage and Family in Melbourne, where she is a sessional lecturer in the Catholic Tradition of sexuality, marriage and family.

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Chiesa: The German Option of the Argentine Pope

Cardinal Kasper and the progressive wing of the Church of Germany have gotten what they wanted. On communion for the divorced and remarried, Francis is on their side. He made up his mind a while ago, and has acted accordingly

Comments from Bishop Athanasius Schneider

Rorate Caeli: RORATE EXCLUSIVE: Bishop Athanasius Schneider reaction to Synod
Door to communion for divorced & remarried officially kicked open

"Decentralization"

Crisis: Ukrainians React to Papal Calls for “Decentralization” by Alexander R. Sich

Sandro Magister Continues...

Kasper vs Ratzinger, the Unending Dispute
Francis reignited it and the synod has not resolved it. In the paragraphs on the divorced and remarried the word “communion” isn’t there. But the pope could introduce it himself, by authority


Synodal Church. But the Pope Will Decide Everything
The word “communion” doesn’t even appear in the synod-approved text concerning the divorced and remarried. But in practice everyone is already doing whatever he wants. The spirit matters more than the letter, Francis says

Archbishop Aquila Contra the German Bishops

Did Thomas More and John Fisher Die For Nothing? by Archbishop Samuel Aquila
Following the words of Christ himself, the Church has always taught that divorce and remarriage is simply adultery by another name

(via Fr. Z)

Coverage of the Extraordinary Synod

Chiesa:
Synod. First Shot on Target Comes From the Conservatives
Thanks above all to the introductory talk of Cardinal Erdõ, adamant in excluding the ambiguous “openness” of the base document. But the innovators are already on the counterattack. And they’re counting on the support of the pope


Synod. One Tweet Does Not a Summer Make
The work of the assembly has never been so secretive. Useless news served up by the official channels. Nonexistent translations for fathers who don’t know Italian. The symbolic gesture of rupture from the Polish bishops

CWR Blog:
The Dispatch: More from CWR
Synod fathers discuss cultural contexts, anthropological changes, social contradictions
A focus during this week of the Synod of Bishops has been analysis of both positive and negative “anthropological and cultural changes in our times”

Collecting data on the state of Western industrial "societies" is important, along with analysis, but have we moved beyond the competence of a synod? If this is proper to theology, then what are we to make of the judgments of the synod fathers concerning the data?


Abp. Kurtz to the synod: “Offer intentional & ongoing formation so that the family can live its missionary identity” by Catherine Harmon
USCCB president releases "expanded version" of his intervention at the Synod of Bishops.
October 09, 2015 03:37 EST

Synod & Council: The Conservatives' Failed Strategy

Joseph Arias on the Kasper Proposal

Doctrine, Discipline and the “Kasper Proposal” by Joseph Arias

Rorate Caeli: EXCLUSIVE: CARD. MÜLLER'S pre-Synod presentation of Card. Sarah's book in Germany - Liturgy, Grace, Marriage, and the New Danger of Schism

Insight Scoop: New: "Eleven Cardinals Speak on Marriage and the Family: Essays from a Pastoral Viewpoint"

By Fr. Robert Dodaro O.S.D.


First Five, Now Seventeen Anti-Kasper Cardinals by Sandro Magister
And they are speaking out together in two books that are about to be released ahead of the synod. With Robert Sarah and the Africans in the lead

Is Divorce Permissible?

Synod. The Key Question: Does Jesus Allow Divorce Or Not? by Sandro Magister

Innocenzo Gargano, an illustrious exegete, explains that he does, and Cardinal Kasper agrees with him. But the New Testament and the tradition of the Church say the opposite, critics object. A preview of a book by the biblicist Gonzalo Ruiz Freites

Cardinal Kasper Still At It

What Jesus Would Say If He Were a Synod Father by Sandro Magister

He too would grant divorce “for hardness of heart.” As in the time of Moses. This is how the monk Innocenzo Gargano reinterprets the words of Jesus on marriage. New developments in the discussion