Archive for the ‘Cardinal Kasper’ Category

Triumph of (Modernist) theologians over diplomats in Vatican

Thursday, July 1st, 2010

Benedict XVI is rushing to push forward Modernist ideologies in higher places by promoting the so-called Cardinal Marc Ouellet of Quebec as Prefect of the Congregation for Bishops, Archbishop Rino Fisichella as the first President of the new Pontifical Commission for Promotion of the New Evangelization, “a new Vatican department devoted to reawakening the faith in the West, especially Europe”, and Bishop Kurt Koch of Basel, Switzerland, as President of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity and the Commission for Religious Relations with Jews.

See NCR article

There is a New Evangelization on the horizon. For how can the new faith revitalize Europe and the West with the more same old stuff, such as with the right of religious liberty of man of every religion, ecumenism (cooperation of religions for the betterment of mankind), collegiality (that the bishops with the Pope hold supreme authority in the Church, in spite of the fact that that Pope alone has that power, consequently making bishops autonomous in their own dioceses in union with the Pope), and false ecclesiology (that the Church of God is not identical to the Catholic Church, but rather much bigger than the Catholic Church, however subsists in the Catholic Church in the fullness of truth)?

Even Kasper at a farewell session with reporters in Rome, described the effort to restore Christian unity as the “construction site of the church of the future.”

Yes, you heard it right, there is a need of Christian unity and that is the hope of the church of the future. However passé is the notion of Christian unity in the Catholic Church, no longer by the profession of one faith and under the rule of the Pope.

“Instead of accusing others, and even the pope, of wishing to go back to before the council, everyone would be well advised to look over their own books and reassess their own personal position on the council,” he wrote. “Not everything that was said and done after the council, was therefore done in accordance with the council.” said Koch.

But which portion from above was not prescribed by the Second Vatican Council? All of them? Yet, it is the same old stuff we have been getting from Rome for over 50 years. It is a renovation of Vatican II and we are anticipating the results. There is no going back to before the council, because there is no good in doing that, but to keep looking over their own books and reassess their own personal position on the council, endlessly.

And who can forget the religious relations with the Jews who have rejected Christ? After all, their covenant is still valid?

Kasper admits talks with SSPX is not easy

Wednesday, May 12th, 2010

When will Kasper give up his dialogue with false religions? When will he admit that this novelty has not existed close to two thousand years of church history?

Not surprising that Cardinal Kasper wants to talk on the conditions of his own instead of the traditionalists.

“I’m for a dialogue, but on our conditions, not on the traditionalists’ conditions,” Kasper said. The SSPX had to accept the Council reforms, the “sine qua non” of any accord.

The Catholic approach has always been a dialogue with the Protestants and schismatics on the grounds of return to the true faith. It is not the dialogue of religious “idle conservation” whereby the Catholic position is put on equal footing with false religions and schismatic beliefs, resulting in human cooperation without conversion.

Kasper’s resistance to agree with the SSPX smacks of hypocrisy. When does the Vatican, since the spirit of ecumenism of the 60’s, fail to recognize everything that is false as true with non-Catholics and in non-Catholic religions? It seems like the only things that are false after the Vatican Council II are the spirit, life, worship and discipline of Catholicism prior to the Vatican II reforms.

Let Cardinal Kasper search the pages of history to find credence for this unfruitful dialogue with pagans, Jews, Muslims, and non-Catholics.

“They’ve attacked me as a heretic,” he said with a smile.

Asked why the ultra-traditionalists opposed ecumenical dialogue so strongly, he said: “Some people feel threatened in their Catholic identity when we speak with Protestants.

“We need to have a Catholic identity,” he said. “But we need an open and mature identity, not a closed one. That’s not a mature identity.”

See Reuters article

No, Kasper has failed to see the problems resulting from his ecumenical dialogue. It is not a matter of open and mature identity here;  it is a matter of the true spirit of Catholic identity that is at sake when such dialogue occurs. Let Kasper explain how his approach is a living Tradition of the Catholic Church. Where do we find in the pages of history in which the Church has allowed such dialogue without insisting on the Church as the only source of unity and means of salvation, outside of which there can be no remission of sins?

The fact is Kasper does not believe in these fundamental truths of Catholicism and he sure has a hard time explaining these teachings of the Church to non-Catholics without offending them, without compromising, the exact opposition of  the dialogue with the SSPX.

SSPX has to convert, but not non-Catholics.