The great George Cardinal Pell has supported querying the confusion in Amoris Laetitia
Posted by PDH on November 30, 2016, 11:40 am
http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=30066 Catholic World News Cardinal Pell defends four cardinals for asking ‘significant’ questions November 29, 2016 Cardinal George Pell has come to the support of the four cardinals who have submitted dubia about the interpretation of Amoris Laetitia.
Following an address to an audience in London, the Australian cardinal was asked whether he agreed with the questions the cardinals had asked Pope Francis. He replied: “How can you disagree with a question?” He added, however, that the questions were “significant.”
During his talk, Cardinal Pell had spoken at length about the proper understanding of conscience in relation to moral law. While acknowledging the primacy of conscience, he cited the concern of Blessed John Henry Newman about a “miserable counterfeit” of conscience that promotes “the right of self-will.”
A conscience must be properly informed, the cardinal said. “When a priest and a penitent are trying to discern the best way forward in what is known as the internal forum,” he said, they should always refer to the moral laws set forth by the Church. “The idea that you can somehow discern that moral truths should not be followed or should not be recognized is absurd,” he said. Cardinal Pell pointedly remarked that Catholics are sometimes advised to follow their own consciences on questions involving sexual morality. It is telling, he said, that the same advice is not given to those who harbor racist attitudes, or who deny an obligation to assist the poor.
For those who are interested in understanding the Church’s teachings on moral issues, Cardinal Pell strongly recommended Veritatis Splendor and Evangelium Vitae, two “great encyclicals” of St. John Paul II. Critics of Pope Francis have observed that those two encyclicals were largely overlooked in Amoris Laetitia.
Cardinal Pell said that many faithful Catholics have been “unnerved” by recent developments within the Church. He said this was a result of the widespread confusion about the authority of moral law. ---------------------- https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/cardinal-pell-on-dubia-how-can-you-disagree-with-a-question Cardinal Pell on four Cardinals’ dubia: ‘How can you disagree with a question?’ Claire Chretien LONDON, United Kingdom, November 29, 2016 (LifeSiteNews) – Australian Cardinal George Pell called the four cardinals' letter to Pope Francis asking for moral clarification on Amoris Laetitia "significant" in an interview suggesting he isn't bothered by it.
“How can you disagree with a question?” Pell said in reply to an inquiry about whether he agreed with the cardinals' questions. Pell was speaking at St. Patrick’s Church in London, where he addressed the current state of Catholicism and a proper understanding of conscience.
“A number of regularly worshipping Catholics” are “unnerved by the turn of events” within the Church, Pell said, like the notion that individual conscience can trump moral law. This question about the role of conscience is one of the many concerns theologians, bishops, and others have expressed in the wake of the papal exhortation Amoris Laetitia, which critics say contains passages that undermine or can be interpreted to undermine Catholic moral teaching. Four cardinals sent Pope Francis a dubia, or formal request, asking him to clarify whether parts of Amoris Laetitia are at odds with Catholic moral teaching. The pope has not yet responded.
Pell pointed out that "those emphasising 'the primacy of conscience' only seemed to apply it to sexual morality and questions around the sanctity of life," the Catholic Herald reported. "People were rarely advised to follow their conscience if it told them to be racist, or slow in helping the poor and vulnerable, the cardinal said." "The idea that you can somehow discern that moral truths should not be followed or should not be recognised [is] absurd," said Pell. "We all stand under the truth," but objective truth may be "different from our understanding of the truth." Along with Cardinal Burke, Pell was recently removed from the Congregation for Divine Worship, the Vatican liturgy office.
Re: The great George Cardinal Pell has supported querying the confusion in Amoris Laetitia
OK, that's five faithful Cardinals. Are there any more?
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