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Cardinal Kasper in NYC:
The Ghost of Vatican II goes on a rampage


http://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2014/05/cardinal-kasper-in-nyc-ghost-of-vatican.html

While the attention of much of the Catholic blogosphere was focused on Cardinal Müller's "harsh" and "blunt" speech to the Presidency of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious -- a speech on which we will have something to say later on -- Cardinal Kasper went to Fordham University (May 5) for a "conversation" with Cathleen Kaveny, ethicist and legal scholar at Boston College, on his new book, "Mercy: The Essence of the Gospel and the Key to Christian Life". The "conversation" was well-advertised, done in front of a large audience (the event was reportedly "sold out"), and live-tweeted by Grant Gallicho (associate editor of Commonweal) and discussed on Facebook.

The Cardinal was asked about his stance on communion for the divorced and remarried, to which he responded (as reported by Mr. Gallicho):



Evidently for Cardinal Kasper, the divorced and (civilly) remarried are not only eligible to receive Holy Communion, they are not even in a state of grave sin.

And on feminist theologians? Here is Cardinal Kasper's response as recorded by Fr. James Martin SJ on his Facebook page (which has nearly 74,000 likes and can be read by the public):



Cardinal Kasper's public endorsement of Elizabeth Johnson is very significant as she is one of the very few theologians ever to have a book publicly censured (in 2011) by the Committee on Doctrine of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops. The Committee was at that time led by Donald Cardinal Wuerl, who is nobody's idea of a "conservative". The awarding to her of the LCWR's "Outstanding Leadership Award" this year was also denounced only a few days before by Cardinal Müller as an "open provocation against the Holy See and the Doctrinal Assessment" because of "the gravity of the doctrinal errors in that theologian’s writings". Cardinal Müller predicted that this move "further alienates the LCWR from the Bishops"; but it certainly does not alienate them from Cardinal Kasper, who also went on to criticize the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith:

If you have a problem with the leadership of the women’s orders, then you have to have a discussion with them, you have to dialogue with them, an exchange of ideas,” he said. “Perhaps they have to change something. Perhaps also the Congregation (for the Doctrine of the Faith) has a little bit to change its mind. That’s the normal way of doing things in the church. I am for dialogue. Dialogue presupposes different positions. The church is not a monolithic unity.”

“We should be in communion,” he continued, “which also means in dialogue with each other. I hope all this controversy will end in a good, peaceful and meaningful dialogue.”
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Kasper — often a sparring partner with his fellow German theologian, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, who later became Benedict XVI — said that critiques are part of academic discourse but said that the CDF sometimes “sees some things a little bit narrower.”

(Source: Cardinal Kasper, the ‘pope’s theologian,’ downplays Vatican blast at U.S. nuns, Religion News Service.)

The Cardinal did not neglect to remind his audience of Pope Francis' support for his book:



Or as reported by RNS:

The German cardinal who has been called the “pope’s theologian” said fresh Vatican criticism of American nuns was typical of the “narrower” view that officials of the Roman Curia tend to take, and he said U.S. Catholics shouldn’t be overly concerned.

“I also am considered suspect!” Cardinal Walter Kasper said with a laugh during an appearance on Monday (May 5) at Fordham University. “I cannot help them,” he added, referring to his critics in Rome.
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On Monday, Kasper told the audience that after Francis praised him by name just days after his election, “an old cardinal came to him and said, ‘Holy Father, you cannot do this! There are heresies in this book!’ ”
As Francis recounted the story to Kasper, he said, the pope smiled and added: “This enters in one ear and goes out the other.”

Pope Francis had already praised the book in public last year, during his first Angelus (March 17, 2013):

In the past few days I have been reading a book by a Cardinal — Cardinal Kasper, a clever theologian, a good theologian — on mercy. And that book did me a lot of good, but do not think I am promoting my cardinals’ books! Not at all! Yet it has done me so much good, so much good... Cardinal Kasper said that feeling mercy, that this word changes everything. This is the best thing we can feel: it changes the world. A little mercy makes the world less cold and more just.



In addition to his "conversation" in Fordham, Cardinal Kasper was interviewed that same day on the Brian Lehrer Show. The full interview can be heard there: The Brian Lehrer Show - The Pope's Theologian. Near the beginning of the interview, Mr. Lehrer sets the tone by describing his guest as "Pope Francis' theologian". Cardinal Kasper later affirms that the pontificate of Pope Francis is "a springtime of the Church" (6:43-6:45).

Rorate will try to post a transcript of the most relevant and disturbing section of the interview. For now we point our readers to the section from 21:40 to 25:17, where Mr. Lehrer and the Cardinal discuss communion for divorcees, divorce itself, and birth control. Among other things the Cardinal boldly states that the Church is "not against birth control at all" and, claiming to have no desire to go into "casuistry" says that it is up to one's personal conscience and responsibility to decide on "how to do" birth control. He also declares that divorce may sometimes be "necessary", and since God's mercy gives everybody "a new chance, a new beginning" then the Church should do the same.


Labels: Francis Effect?, Heterodoxy in the Church, Kasper's Destruction of the Indissolubility of Marriage, The Bergoglio Pontificate



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    http://www.novusordowatch.org/story041405.htm

    "Cardinal" Walter Kasper
    is a Modernist Apostate



    Modernist Fr. Walter Kasper,
    a Theological Heavyweight in the Novus Ordo Church

    The following is a translation the German article "Die Thesen des Professor Walter Kasper", which was released before the conclave of 2005, at http://www.cardinalrating.com/cardinal_45__article_83.htm:

    The Theses of Professor Walter Kasper
    Sept. 11, 2004

    From the IK (Initiativ Kreis) News of 8-9/2003
    "Faith does not mean a believing-to-be-true of wonderful facts and sets of beliefs that have authoritatively been put before us."

    "Dogmas can certainly be one-sided, superficial, bossy, dumb, and rash."
    Christ "presumably did not call himself either Messiah or Servant of God or Son of God and probably not Son of Man either."

    The dogma that Jesus is "completely man and completely God" is able to be superceded.

    Kasper writes "that we must call the many miracle stories in the Gospels legendary."

    Even when [if] Kasper admits Jesus performed healings: "On the other hand, with some probability one need not consider [the] so-called miracles of nature as historical."

    The Resurrection of Jesus is "no objectively and neutrally ascertainable historical fact."

    Regarding the oldest account of the Easter event (Mk 16:1-8), Kasper comments "that here we are not talking about historical characteristics but [linguistic] means of style which are to get people's attention and create tension [suspense, excitement]." Other New Testament factual claims about the Easter and Ascension accounts, too, are mere "means of style" for Kasper.
    Statements about the immanent Trinity or about the pre-existence of Christ are, according to Kasper, "not direct statements of faith but theological statements of reflection."

    Kasper also speaks of the "Resurrection of each individual in [at] death." Hence "any talk of life after death is misleading." In addition, any talk of heaven, hell, and purgatory is "a very inappropriate, indeed misleading way of speaking."
    By the "not very fortunate expression 'infallibility of the Church'" is meant "that the Church . . . cannot definitively fall back to the status of the ѕуηαgσgυє and cannot deny Christ definitively."

    The dogma of the Church's universal mediatorship of salvation, clothed in the words "extra ecclesiam nulla salus" ["no salvation outside the Church"], which is most important for ecuмenical dialogue, Kasper calls a "most misunderstandable phrase."

    [End of Translation]
    Conclusion:
    Walter Kasper is a typical MODERNIST

    Kasper was made a "cardinal" by the false "Pope" John Paul II on February 21, 2001. A few days later, John Paul made him the president of the so-called "Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity", the Novus Ordo Vatican's organ in charge of ecuмenism and dealings with non-Catholics. With this position, Kasper was given the spot in which he could do the most damage to the Catholic Faith and spread his modernist poison to Catholics and non-Catholics alike. A more effective post for distorting and watering down the Faith could not be imagined. In 2005, the false "Pope" Benedict XVI, like Kasper also a German, confirmed Kasper in this position, where he remained until July 1, 2010, at which point he was more than two years past the mandatory retirement age of 75. [Source: Catholic Hierarchy] Thus, both Benedict XVI and John Paul II ensured that from 2001 to 2010, the modernism of Walter Kasper could be more effective than ever before in the Novus Ordo Church.

    Modernism is incompatible with Catholicism, meaning it is not possible to be a Modernist and a Roman Catholic at the same time; one excludes the other. As the links below will show, Kasper's modernism is blatant. For example, the claptrap he spouts regarding the Resurrection of Our Blessed Lord Jesus Christ is directly condemned as modernistic by the decree Lamentabili Sane (1907), issued by the Holy Office under Pope St. Pius X: "The Resurrection of the Savior is not properly a fact of the historical order. It is a fact of merely the supernatural order (neither demonstrated nor demonstrable) which the Christian conscience gradually derived from other facts" (condemned proposition no. 36). The errors of the modernists "captivate the faithful's minds and corrupt the purity of their faith", the same decree warns, hence they must "be held by all as condemned and proscribed." This, ladies and gentlemen, is the unchangeable teaching of the Catholic Church. "But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach a gospel to you besides that which we have preached to you, let him be anathema" (Gal 1:8).

    Furthermore, the same sainted Pope Pius X repeated in his anti-modernist encyclical Pascendi that the [First] Vatican Council exhorts us that "that sense of the sacred dogmas is to be perpetually retained which our Holy Mother the Church has once declared, nor is this sense ever to be abandoned on plea or pretext of a more profound comprehension of the truth" (par. 28). His Holiness also urges the fighters of Modernism to "combat novelties of words, remembering the admonitions of [Pope] Leo XIII: 'It is impossible to approve in Catholic publications a style inspired by unsound novelty which seems to deride the piety of the faithful and dwells on the introduction of a new order of Christian life, on new directions of the Church, on new aspirations of the modern soul, on a new social vocation of the clergy, on a new Christian civilization, and many other things of the same kind'" (par. 55).

    Finally, we recall also the stern warning of Pope Pius VI in his 1794 papal bull Auctorem Fidei, which condemned the 1786 Synod of Pistoia, a theological forerunner of the modernist so-called "Second Vatican Council" of the Novus Ordo Church (1962-65): Heresy or error "cannot be excused in the way that one sees it being done, under the erroneous pretext that the seemingly shocking affirmations in one place are further developed along orthodox lines in other places, and even in yet other places corrected; as if allowing for the possibility of either affirming or denying the statement, or of leaving it up to the personal inclinations of the individual – such has always been the fraudulent and daring method used by innovators to establish error. It allows for both the possibility of promoting error and of excusing it.... Whenever it becomes necessary to expose statements that disguise some suspected error or danger under the veil of ambiguity, one must denounce the perverse meaning under which the error opposed to Catholic truth is camouflaged" (Pius VI, Bull Auctorem Fidei, 1794).

    Reality Check:
    Pope Pius IX, Encyclical against Liberalism, Quanta Cura, 1864
    Pope Pius IX, Syllabus of Liberal Errors, 1864
    Pope St. Pius X, Encyclical against Modernism, Pascendi Dominici Gregis, 1907
    Pope St. Pius X, Syllabus of Modernist Errors, Lamentabili Sane, 1907
    Pope Pius XII, Encyclical against Opinions which Undermine Catholic Doctrine, Humani Generis, 1950
    Fr. Felix Sarda y Salvany, Liberalism is a Sin: Exposing the Ideas and Methods of the Modernists (1886)
    The Catholic Church vs. the Novus Ordo Church on Ecuмenism
     

    The Apostasy of Modernism:
    A cartoon showing the "Descent of the Modernists": From Catholicism to Atheism in a few easy steps