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PopeWatch: Cardinal Cordes

A German Cardinal has spoken out against Marxism:

 

 

A German cardinal is today responding to the recent interview of Cardinal Reinhard Marx in which he opens up to the idea of blessing homosexual couples (and implicitly thus the practice of sodomy). Cardinal Paul Josef Cordes – the former President of the Pontifical Council Cor Unum – has written a commentary on this idea for the Austrian Catholic website kath.net.

“The initiative of Cardinal Marx ignores the clear Revelation of God,” comments Cardinal Cordes, and explains that “the Church is in its pastoral care bound to Holy Scripture and to its interpretation through the Church’s Magisterium.” Here, the German cardinal refers to St. Paul’s Letter to the Romans (1:18-32) as interpreted by the German theologian Heinrich Schlier in his book Der Römerbrief (Freiburg 1977); the Declaration of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (29 December 1975) and the Catechism of the Catholic Church (no. 2357), in order “to recognize the binding instruction of the Church.” Cordes adds, saying: “Marx does not even mention that homosexuality always contradicts the Will of God.”

Cardinal Cordes also calls the idea to bless homosexual couples “frighteningly naive.” He says:

Whoever reflects upon this for a moment, discovers the true intention of those concerned. […] In this case, people do not wish to receive God’s assistance for themselves; rather, they aim with their request at the recognition and acceptance of their homosexual way of life and its ecclesial valorization.

The German prelate adds to this analysis his comment: “An ecclesial blessing as a confirmation of a relationship which is contrary to the Will of God? That truly seems sacrilegious.”

 

Go here to OnePeterFive to read the rest.  One wonders how long it will take the de facto schism to become a de jure schism.

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Don L
Don L
Friday, February 9, AD 2018 9:17am

The problem here seems to be a paucity of martyrs within the clergy. Seems to me that the “selling of indulgences” was the lesser evil when compared to what Rome is now pushing as “the faith.” Just one opinion.

Magdalene P
Magdalene P
Friday, February 9, AD 2018 11:14am

It is a false ‘church’ headed by destroyers of the faith.

Mary De Voe
Friday, February 9, AD 2018 12:20pm

Addiction to sodomy is not only assault and battery of another person to which individuals cannot give informed consent, it is a violation of free will. Same sex attraction or homosexuality is a true cross to carry through life.

ken
ken
Friday, February 9, AD 2018 2:49pm

Now if an American bishop would put the smack down on that pompous queen McElroy.

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