Denver prelate: ‘Did Thomas More and John Fisher die for nothing?’
October 21, 2015
Archbishop Samuel Aquila of Denver has offered strong criticism of the “Kasper proposal” as well as “the German bishops’ ‘Plan B’ to do things ‘their way’ in Germany, even if it goes against the grain of Church teaching.”
“The idea that Catholics should be allowed to remarry and receive communion did not begin with the letter signed by Cardinal Kasper and other members of the German episcopate in 1993,” Archbishop Aquila wrote in an October 19 column. “Another country’s episcopate – England’s – pioneered this experiment in Christian doctrine nearly 500 years ago.”
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Posted by: Randal Mandock -
Oct. 21, 2015 12:59 PM ET USA
The Kasper gang seems to be suffering from the brand of Americanism that resulted in abdication of the American Catholic university system from obedience to the Holy See, as detailed in a book reviewed on Catholic Culture this summer (Coup at Catholic University of America). Archbishop Aquila's words suggest that the Americanist heresy took root in England prior to surfacing again in its former colony. Catholics exercise this heresy when they place their erroneous conscience ahead of obedience.
