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Cardinal Zen of Hong Kong yesterday defended the famous "dubia" request to "Amoris laetitia", which, among other things, the Cardinals Meisner and Brandmüller signed, against the US television channel EWTN. "This is a very respectful request from the four cardinals, I believe it is their right to have an answer to it."
February 22, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) -- The new head of the Jesuit order, one of the most powerful figures in the Catholic Church worldwide, has claimed in an interview that the words of Jesus against divorce are “relative” and must be “discerned” according to the “conscience” of each individual.
Historically, the Superior General of the Jesuits has been dubbed the “Black Pope” because of his influence in the Church.
Marriage and Divorce. The General of the Jesuits: "Jesus Too Must Be Reinterpreted"
Cardinal Zen defends Dubia's request to Francis
Cardinal Zen of Hong Kong has defended the well-known "dubia" question of "Amoris laetitia": "This is a very respectful request from the four cardinals"
Bishop Schneider: Catholics are not called to blind obedience to the Pope
“As Catholics,” he said we have “to be submitted, (canonically) I mean, to the Pope, to the Vicar of Christ to accept his authority, to have respect for him, to pray for him, and to have a supernatural love for him.” But, he added, “this does not mean blind obedience; of course no[t] because we are not in a dictatorship.” “In a dictatorship yes, we have to obey blind or in the army.”
Therefore we see: 1) grave matter, 2) full knowledge 3) deliberate consent. The educated Catholic will know that these three conditions determine mortal sin. It only takes one mortal sin for a soul to be damned to hell if he/she doesn't rectify the matter within the Sacrament of Confession. If adulterers receive Holy Communion while in a state of mortal sin, they commit yet another mortal sin, that of sacrilege against Holy Communion. No Amoralis-Lamentia-based double-talk will erase that reality.
http://restore-dc-catholicism.blogspot.jp/2017/02/diocese-of-rome-lures-adulterers-into.html
As the debate on the exhortation "Amoris Laetitia" is raging on, Msgr. Nicola Bux has kindly agreed to share some comments on the present state of affairs, especially following the letter to the Pope by four cardinals seeking clarification on specific points of the above document. For those who may be not aware, theologian and Vatican liturgical consulter, Msgr. Nicola Bux, is also professor of sacramental theology and author of several books on the liturgy, including 2016’s Con i sacramenti non si scherza (The Sacraments Are Not a Joke).
Q. And how do you explain this situation
A. The Catholic thought is in crisis: it is obscured the reason why the Word became flesh in the womb of the Virgin Mary and died on the cross to save men from sin, calling them into the Church which, as the Catechism says (cf. Compendium 1), is called to evangelize and baptize for the creatures to become children of God.
Q. It is also being rumored that the Pope may revoke the four prelates as cardinal ...
I remember that St Pius X urged:" Be strong! We are not to give in where we must not give in. We must fight, not hesitantly, but with courage; not in secret, but in public; not behind closed doors, but in the open". Today, like yesterday (cf. Rm 12,2), the intra-ecclesial confrontation is between Catholics and neo-modernists: those who speak of conservatives and progressives, reduce the life of the Church to politics. The Cardinals have acted in an ecclesial and non-political way. Therefore, who's afraid of the theological dispute in the Church, conducted with meekness and humility, as Jesus wants? Raffaello painted the famous one on the Sacramento. The Magisterium would benefit from it.
Q. And what do you think the ultimate consequences of this situation could be, if it is not resolved?
A. It has been said by far more authoritative clergy that we are in the presence of a creeping schism: a non-Catholic thought has entered the Catholic Church, a thought which considers the Mass only as a banquet rather than primarily as a sacrifice, marriage as a human act and not as an indissoluble sacrament, talking of sin and grace as by now outdated, a thought preaching morals of mercy irrespective of conversion and penance, and so on. Isn’t it a way to liquidate the Church? The work of the Church in the world is the victory over evil and death; We must fear not primarily those who kill the body, but those who damn the souls to eternal punishment.
The new leader of Opus Dei, Spanish Monsignor Fernando Ocáriz, and another top Opus Dei official met the press on Monday. Among other things, they described the surprisingly warm personal relationship between Pope Francis and Opus Dei, despite perceptions that the group is "conservative" and Francis "progressive."