Cardinal Walter Kasper published another article in the run-up to the Extraordinary Synod on the Family advancing his proposal that the discipline of the Church forbidding the admittance of divorced and civilly remarried Catholics to the reception of Holy Communion needs to be cast aside.
The theme he develops is Godâ??s mercy. He states: â??Many ask: If God is always merciful, why is the Church not the same? Or, why does the Church not seem to be as merciful as God?â? And he continues: â??The worst reproach that can be leveled against the Church â?? which in fact, often applies to it â?? is that it does not practice what it proclaims to others. Indeed, many people experience the Church as rigid and lacking in mercy.â?
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