Cardinal Kasper: don't claim to speak for the Pope
November 07, 2014
Cardinal Walter Kasper told an audience at the Catholic University of America that Catholics should not claim that they are speaking for the Pope.
Cardinal Kasper—who, ironically, repeatedly said that Pope Francis approved of his proposal to allow Communion for divorced and remarried Catholics—told the Washington audience that he regrets the tendency of many Catholics “to appropriate Pope Francis in their own way.” The net result of such claims, he said, is to undermine the Pope’s teaching authority.
The German cardinal went on to say that the thoughts of Pope Francis should be understood in the context of his Argentine background and his acquaintance with liberation theology. The Pontiff, he said, believes that reform in the Church will arise from the people. Thus his approach “does not want to instruct the people, but to listen to their wisdom,” Cardinal Kasper said.
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Posted by: matthew.buckley1558 -
Nov. 10, 2014 12:01 AM ET USA
Sixth modernist error in Lamentabili Sane: 6. The "Church learning" and the "Church teaching" collaborate in such a way in defining truths that it only remains for the "Church teaching" to sanction the opinions of the "Church learning."
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Posted by: filioque -
Nov. 08, 2014 3:44 PM ET USA
Did our Lord say, "Go and listen to all nations"? This is sophistry and if the Pope really believes it, then we are in big trouble.
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Posted by: Minnesota Mary -
Nov. 07, 2014 7:58 PM ET USA
Evidently Cardinal Kasper believes that Truth comes from the ground up and not from above. Spare us O Lord!
