Cardinal Napier criticizes Cardinal Kasper

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Cardinal Wilfrid Napier of Durban, one of the four presidents-delegate at the upcoming synod of bishops on the family, criticized Cardinal Walter Kasper in three recent postings on his Twitter account.
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The presidents-delegate take turns presiding over the synod deliberations.
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Responding to a recent Huffington Post article, the South African cardinal tweeted that “it’s a real worry to read an expression like ‘the Pope’s Theologian’ applied to Cardinal Kasper. Why is it a worry?”
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Cardinal Napier has been a voice for reason and morality here in South Africa. He was an Anti-Apartheid campaigner and he has also led the fight in South Africa against abortion, same sex marriage, poverty and corruption. He is in fact our country’s senior Catholic.

With this criticism he seems to be following the biblical example of chastising a brother due to an error he has committed.
 
boar2roar said:
According to some Cardinal Kasper has become the unofficial main figure of the liberal wing of the church. That said publicly he doesn’t appear to go as far as Cardinal Marx.
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And Cardinal Marx does not go as far as his uncle Karl.😃
 
boar2roar said:
According to some Cardinal Kasper has become the unofficial main figure of the liberal wing of the church. That said publicly he doesn’t appear to go as far as Cardinal Marx.
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Be careful here guys I got banned for talking about this stuff!
 
With Cardinal Kasper, his recent comments concerning the Synod added to his interview several years ago concerning the documents of Vatican Council II add up to a concern for some regarding orthodoxy. We must be careful of sources obviously, but I have seen no retractions or clarifications of some of these positions. But He is but one Cardinal. Lets pray, alot, for the Holy Father and the Cardinals involved in the upcoming synod.
 
My personal decision is to read and rely on my Catechism and let these Cardinals and Bishops natter away at each other. I doubt these “disputes” are anything new in the Church but the high speed information distribution of the modern world has made them far more available to the public.
 
baliano said:
My personal decision is to read and rely on my Catechism and let these Cardinals and Bishops natter away at each other. I doubt these “disputes” are anything new in the Church but the high speed information distribution of the modern world has made them far more available to the public.
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Indeed, though one would hope for a little restraint from bishops on all sides of these thorny issues. Discretion is the better part of valour.

I have no doubt that similar discussions and disputes took place before Paul VI published Humanae Vitae, but then bishops couldn’t “tweet” back then…
 
This article adds a bit more:

ewtnnews.com/catholic-news/Vatican.php?id=11941

Kasper is not the ‘Pope’s theologian,’ says leading African cardinal
Andrea Gagliarducci
Vatican City, Apr 9, 2015

A top African cardinal says that German cardinal Walter Kasper – who’s stirred controversy over his views promoting Communion for the divorced and remarried – does not necessarily represent Pope Francis’ theological stance.

(Read the rest there)
 
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