{"id":45746,"date":"2019-02-12T08:48:56","date_gmt":"2019-02-12T14:48:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/?p=45746"},"modified":"2019-02-14T10:54:03","modified_gmt":"2019-02-14T16:54:03","slug":"muller-und-kasper-enough-manifestos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2019\/02\/12\/muller-und-kasper-enough-manifestos\/","title":{"rendered":"M\u00fcller und Kasper: Enough Manifestos!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>by&nbsp;Felix Neumann<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cLet not your heart be troubled!\u201d is the slogan that Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig M\u00fcller places at the head of his \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncregister.com\/blog\/edward-pentin\/cardinal-mueller-issues-manifesto-of-faith\">Manifesto of Faith<\/a>.\u201d He issued this, according to the introduction, at the request of many of the faithful \u201cin the face of growing confusion about the doctrine of the Faith.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The brief manifesto is not lacking in certainties. The cardinal, uninfected by any postmodern doubt or ambiguity, states what the reality is. Cardinal M\u00fcller\u2019s heart is not troubled. His Yes is Yes, his No is No.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Shortly thereafter his great counter-force in the college of cardinals, the resistant Cardinal Walter Kasper, who as former officer for ecumenism is well versed in dealing with ambiguities, issued a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.catholicnewsagency.com\/news\/cardinal-kasper-says-muellers-manifesto-spreads-confusion-and-division-44881\">critique of M\u00fcller\u2019s manifesto<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Where M\u00fcller gives a Yes to the truths of the faith, Kasper relentlessly gives a But: Yes, we believe in the trinitarian God. But what about the Jews and the Muslims? Cardinal Kasper\u2019s heart is not troubled. He puts out into the deep.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The two positions stand unreconciled next to each other: the one a lighthouse against the \u201czeitgeist,\u201d the other calm in the face of the uncertainties of the present.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is easy to project these fundamental differences within the church onto a political left-right schema. But a distinction of this sort is not productive \u2013 not least with a view toward the horizon of redemption, about which the two distinct cardinals are united.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Already over ten years ago, Timothy Radcliffe, former master of the order of Dominicans, provided a formula for these fundamental hermeneutical differences among Catholics which is not easy to grasp with worldly political categories. He spoke of \u201cKingdom of God Catholics\u201d and \u201cCommunio Catholics.\u201d <strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to Radcliffe, the first have a deep sense for the pilgrim People of God on their way to the Kingdom of God. They emphasize openness and the action of the Holy Spirit even outside the Church. Freedom and justice and mercy are important to them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The others, the Communio Catholics, want to strengthen the community of the Church. They emphasize Catholic identity and are skeptical of the shallowness of modernity. They value order and truth and clarity. It is clear: M\u00fcller belongs to the Communio Catholics, Kasper to the Kingdom of God Catholics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Already in 2006 Radcliffe lamented the lack of discussion between these two groups. Today the problem is greater. A Kingdom of God Catholic can hardly comprehend the uncertainty and the fear of confusion which M\u00fcller stands against. A Communio Catholic can hardly comprehend how unworried the other side is about pluralism and the dissolution of certainties.<strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Neither of these positions is simply \u201cright\u201d or \u201cleft,\u201d \u201corthodox\u201d or \u201cheterodox.<strong>\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Radcliffe wrote then that the split can only be healed when we strive to understand why others think the way they do. He wrote nothing about manifestos<strong>. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Up until now, the method of Francis is to keep silence about such controversies such as the dubia and Vigano\u2019s explosive letter. Supporters and opponents wish that he would clearly position himself \u2013 in this, there is no lack of clear positions in the church. In his office of unity, it would be the Pope\u2019s place to state his position: not as a judge between the positions, not as one party, but as a bridge-builder who promotes dialogue<strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Felix Neumann is on the editorial staff at <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.katholisch.de\/aktuelles\/standpunkt\/muller-und-kasper-genug-der-manifeste\">katholisch.de<\/a>. <em>This piece is published in translation with his kind permission.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The pope should be a bridge-builder between &#8220;Kingdom of God&#8221; Catholics and &#8220;Communio&#8221; Catholics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":45747,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3116,1081],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-new-ws","category-church-reform"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>M\u00fcller und Kasper: Enough Manifestos! 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