Cardinal Kasper: Up to his usual tricks

As CW News is reporting, Cardinal Kasper has called for a reconsideration of the Church's policy regarding Communion and divorced, re-married Catholics. What?? But, my dear Cardinal, that's what happened at the Synod, a discussion of the policy, much consideration, and finally, a renewal of it. As Francis Cardinal Arinze said, while it is a "policy", it is also a policy which flows from the laws of God (divorce is immoral and remarriage in that circumstance is adultery) and the respect and veneration owed the Blessed Sacrament. In other words, it is not a policy which seems open to revision in the way that priestly celibacy is a discipline and not a dogma, so to speak. Of course, true to form, Kasper also called for a reconsideration of priestly celibacy. In other words, the liberals are already giving their take on the Synod and they're lamenting the result: they lost again.

(If you want my personal opinion, this was because Cardinal Pujats was there, speaking in Latin, and we know what the devil thinks about Latin.)

Cardinal Kasper also said that "every bishop in every Western country" recongizes that the issue with Communion and divorce is a serious problem. I take this to be code language for: every bishop from those parts of the world where Catholicism, humanly speaking, is most in decline, where we've found the most priestly abuse, and where people are totally oblivious to the laws of God and the Church. And by "people", I mean the laity and the bishops.

Well, for every Cardinal Pujats one finds, there is a Cardinal Kasper to remind us that we yet walk in the valley of tears.

And it's too bad about Cardinal Kasper because he was showing some modest signs of improvement back before the conclave.