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Walter Kasper says: "The Church is not against birth control at all"
HILARY WHITE
lifesitenews.com
The Church is not opposed to birth control, Pope Francis believes that 50 percent of marriages are sacramentally invalid, and the notion of “heroic virtue” in refraining from committing adultery or other sexual sins is an unreachable ideal and “not for the average Christian,” a senior Vatican prelate has said in a series of interviews while on a visit to New York.
Kasper made the comments on contraception in an interview with WNYC Radio’s Brian Lehrer. Lehrer asked whether it was “merciful” to condemn divorce as well as married couples who “use condoms for birth control.”
“Doesn’t the Church have a whole set of these sex-related rules that at this point are only about the rules themselves? That in common sense and independent assessment of a merciful or an ethical way would bring you to the opposite conclusion,” Lehrer asked.Kasper responded that while it is normally the Church’s role to help married couples reconcile their difficulties and stay married, “there can be divorces necessary, and then it’s the message of the merciful God that he gives to everybody a new chance, a new beginning. And the Church should do it the same.”
Lehrer asked whether married couples who already have “three children and live in poverty” should not be “allowed to use birth control to prevent more conception?”
Kasper responded, “Well, the Church is not against birth control at all. … It’s about the methods of birth control. … I do not want to enter into this characteristic…how they have to do it. It’s their personal conscience and their personal responsibility.”
Cardinal Kasper, whose theological works have been praised by Pope Francis as “serene” and “kneeling theology,” laid out a plan at the February consistory of cardinals to allow divorced and civilly remarried Catholics to return to the reception of Communion “after a period of penance,” but without making any change in their circumstances. This suggestion reportedly aroused an angry response by several cardinals present at the consistory and has since triggered a backlash.
In an interview with the liberal Jesuit magazine Commonweal on his trip to New York, said the high standards required by Church teaching on marriage could be considered an “ideal” to which the Church ought not hold people in the practical realm.
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