By Maike Hickson
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| Kasper and Marx |
The unholy German bishops
continue their march towards
schism. On September 17, on their own website, they published an apologia for
same-sex “marriage,” crossing a whole new line in their battle to reform the
Church’s basic moral teachings.
In an essay entitled “Love
Counts” on Katholisch.de, theology student Simon Linder argues that
since the “societal climate” in Germany has changed, one does not have to
justify oneself anymore when defending the idea of “marriage for all.” Rather,
says Linder, those opposed to same-sex “marriages” have to defend themselves.
And he asks: “Where does the Church have the idea … that homosexuality is a
burden for male and female homosexuals? And more fundamentally: Who gives the
Church the right to declare homosexuals as people who are to be pitied?”
In his six-page long essay,
Linder criticizes German Bishop Stefan Oster, who oversees the diocese of
Passau, for defending the
traditional moral teaching of the Church on sexuality, claiming that to say it
is a scandal to ask to bless homosexual couples “is a scandal” itself. With
reference to Ireland, Linder insists that people are now demanding “more rights
for the male and female homosexuals.”
He also refutes the argument that
homosexual unions are to be opposed because they cannot be fertile and have
children. Linder says:
“It is a fact: In earlier times,
having children was necessary for being cared for in old age. Today, there is a
social system in Germany for retired people who do not have children of their
own. Partnership and marriage, therefore, do not need any more to be defined by
having children. That is good and important for those who—for whatever reason—are
not able to have children. That means: Love counts. Could it be a little less
cramped?”
Linder proposes a local solution
to the question of homosexuality, allowing Germany to go its own way. “'Think
globally, act locally,' only this way, we could start to relax,” claims the
young man. He also insists that by “merely” repeating the Church's teaching and
tradition, one cannot reach people anymore.
With reference to the interdiction
of homosexuality in Holy Scripture, Linder quotes from the recently published German book edited
by Stephan Goertz. According to the quoted passage, the Old Testament only
condemned homosexuals—“which were then not yet known [sic]”—because one needed
to secure offspring for the survival of the Jewish people. Linder writes: “The
Bible did not condemn love between homosexuals—one did not even yet know those
at the time—but the act itself for the sake of the interest of society. Anyone
who wants to interpret the Bible, has to know and consider the circumstances
under which the texts were written. Anyone who does not do this, does not do
justice to Holy Scripture.”
These comments by a young
student, as published by the German Bishops' Conference under the leadership of
Cardinal Reinhard Marx, are in opposition to the traditional moral teaching of
the Church. In June 2015, Bishop Athanasius Schneider repeated this
continual teaching in an interview with LifeSiteNews, saying:
“Practicing homosexuals are
persons who, in a grave manner, sin against the will of God the Creator,
because, by their acts, they reject the fact of the Divine Order of the
sexuality. However, the order of the sexuality consists now only of two sexes, the
male and the female, and this order has been created and declared as being good
by God's infinite wisdom and goodness. If someone revolts consciously in his
acts against this order, then he revolts against God's wisdom and love and
finally rejects the Will of God in a very important area.”
Source: LifeSiteNews
And this: http://traditionalcatholicisminnigeria.blogspot.com.ng/2015/08/bishop-athanasius-schneider-synod.html
And this: http://traditionalcatholicisminnigeria.blogspot.com.ng/2015/06/bishopschneider-francis-pontificate.html
And this: http://traditionalcatholicisminnigeria.blogspot.com.ng/2015/06/bishopschneider-francis-pontificate.html
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