New Jesuit chief claims Jesus’ own words against divorce are ‘relative,’ subject to ‘interpretation’
Pete Baklinski
February 22, 2017 (LifeSiteNews)
Q: So if conscience, after discernment, tells me that I can receive communion even if the norm does not provide for it…
Abascal: The Church has developed over the centuries, it is not a piece of reinforced concrete. It was born, it has learned, it has changed. This is why the ecumenical councils are held, to try to bring developments of doctrine into focus. Doctrine is a word that I don't like very much, it brings with it the image of the hardness of stone. Instead the human reality is much more nuanced, it is never black or white, it is in continual development.
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: "For, of course, all that has been said
: about the manner of interpreting Scripture
: is ultimately subject to the judgement of
: the Church which exercises the divinely
: conferred commission and ministry of
: watching over and interpreting the Word of
: God." CCC 119
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: It's to be hoped the Superior General is
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: Catholic World News
: Jesuit general: all doctrine is subject to
: discernment
: February 22, 2017
: The superior general of the Society of
: Jesus has said that all Church doctrine
: must be subject to discernment.
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: In an interview with a Swiss journalist,
: Father Arturo Sosa Abascal said that the
: words of Jesus, too, must be weighed in
: their “historical context,” taking into
: account the culture in which Jesus lived and
: the human limitations of the men who wrote
: the Gospels.
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: When the interviewer remarked that an
: individual’s discernment might lead him to a
: conclusion at odds with Catholic doctrine,
: the Jesuit superior replied: “That is so,
: because doctrine does not replace
: discernment, nor does it [replace the] Holy
: Spirit.”
: [My bold].
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