Interview With Bishop Athanasius Schneider

[Seamus_L]

youtube.com/watch?v=zSnAP5BUQ9Q
This interview will probably be considered controversial by some, but it is clearly LEGITIMATE, and Bishop Schneider is a Roman Catholic Bishop.

 

[reggieM]

I like him. He’s the real deal.

I also like the analogy, “maybe you’re Mafioso” … you’ve been in the mafia for a long time, it’s a way of life, your family depends on you to support them - so, with some discernment, maybe it’s ok after all? No.

 

[Oneofthewomen]

This really isn’t an interview as it is more a statement.

I would like to see the full context of what he was speaking about and to whom.

I find it is way too easy to cherry pick some statement and make it look like someone is saying (or not saying, as the case may be) something that they are not.

 

[johnnyc176]

youtube.com/watch?v=zSnAP5BUQ9Q

                                         This interview will probably be considered controversial by some, but it is clearly LEGITIMATE, and Bishop Schneider is a Roman Catholic Bishop.

What discernment actually is. Excellent…

 

[reggieM]

This really isn’t an interview as it is more a statement.

I would like to see the full context of what he was speaking about and to whom.

I find it is way too easy to cherry pick some statement and make it look like someone is saying (or not saying, as the case may be) something that they are not.

Here’s a full interview, from the same time of his visit to Poland, where he says the same thing:

Single popes, bishops and faithful preferred to by persecuted and to die rather than to allow divorce or to concede an exception even in a single case in theory or in practice. The two-millennial history of the Church possesses luminous examples. An interpretation of “Amoris laetitia” (=AL) which would even in a single case admit to Holy Communion civilly divorced Catholics, who are still bound by the sacramental bound of their marriage and who nevertheless are living with a new partner as husband and wife, would contradict in practice the divine truth of the indissolubility of marriage. Even when bishops and cordinals who do such an interpretation of AL are solemnly asserting the validity of the indissolubility of marriage, their words remain a lip service, which cannot obscure the fact of the glaring contradiction of such an interpretation with the crystal-clear Divine truth of the Gospel.

rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2017/05/bishop-schneider-interview-in-polish.html

 

[Oneofthewomen]

Here’s a full interview, from the same time of his visit to Poland, where he says the same thing:

Sorry, but I will not read anything at all from that website. It is a disgrace.

If you have another reference, I would be happy to read it, but if all you have is from RC, well, then, it is worthless, IMHO.

 

[Fuerza]

Sorry, but I will not read anything at all from that website. It is a disgrace.

If you have another reference, I would be happy to read it, but if all you have is from RC, well, then, it is worthless, IMHO.

You can just do an internet search for any interviews or statements by Bishop Schneider, as multiple Catholic sites post them. I think you will quickly find that he is an extremely faithful and orthodox bishop who is not afraid to question, in a respectful way, seemingly unorthodox approaches to the faith, even when carried out by his superiors.

As a side note, Rorate is not exactly what I would call a disgrace. Some of their contributors do make disrespectful comments about Pope Francis, which should not be tolerated, however for the most part the site discusses topics which are faithful to Catholic tradition and doctrine. Now the National Catholic Reporter, that is a disgrace.