Permanecer en la verdad de Cristo. Matrimonio y comunión en la Iglesia Católica

by Robert Dodaro, Walter Brandmüller, Raymond Leo Burke

Este volumen, escrito por Brandmüller, Burke, Caffarra, De Paolis, Dodaro, Mankowski, Müller, Rist y Vasil con motivo del Sínodo sobre la familia, se presenta como una nvitación al diálogo por parte de cinco cardenales de la Iglesia Católica y de otros cuatro especialistas.

En la relación presentada durante el Consistorio extraordinario sobre la familia, en febrero de 2014, el cardenal Walter Kasper pidió que la Iglesia armonice «fidelidad y misericordia de Dios en su acción pastoral respecto a los divorciados vueltos a casar civilmente».

En sus estudios, los autores demuestran cómo, examinando los textos bíblicos fundamentales y recurriendo a las fuentes patrísticas, no es posible invocar sic et simpliciter la «tolerancia» —defendida por Kasper— para reconocer la facultad de acceder al sacramento de la Eucaristía por parte de quienes han contraído matrimonio civil tras el divorcio. Los autores presentan argumentos a favor de mantener las bases teológicas y canónicas de la conexión entre la doctrina católica tradicional y la disciplina sacramental inherente al matrimonio y a la comunión. La fidelidad de la Iglesia a la verdad sobre el matrimonio constituye, de este modo, el fundamento irrevocable de su misericordia y de su respuesta amorosa a la persona civilmente divorciada y vuelta a casar. El libro, por último, desmonta la premisa según la cual la doctrina tradicional católica está en contradicción con la práctica pastoral contemporánea.

Genres: Catholic, Religion, Theology, Marriage, Nonfiction

328 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2014

Reviews

[Conor]

Excellent and beautiful response to Cardinal Kasper's Gospel of the Family. This book demolishes the arguments put forward by Kasper and his allies.

[booklady]

Read about this in The Disastrous Pontificate: Pope Francis' Rupture from the Magisterium. Had the books intended for the synod members not been waylaid so that recipients didn't receive them until after the session ended, perhaps the excellent information herein might have helped. My copy is on order.

[Joyce]

This was a collection of essays (and Magisterial documents) prepared in order to refute the arguments proposed by, among others, Card. Kasper for the admission to Holy Communion of the divorced and civilly remarried. The essays cover the question of marriage and Holy Communion from many different angles (Biblical, historical, Oriental, canonical, etc.) and how they all point to the fact that current practice is sound, good, and right.

I personally enjoyed the essays by Abp Cyril Vasil' and Card. Burke the most.

[Zachary]

A brilliant and scholarly overview of the reasons for the Church's practice of declining to extend communion to the civilly recorded and remarried. Some essays are better than others, but each theologian stays within his field of specialization (a patristics scholar, a moral theologian, a canonist,a philosopher, a dogmatic theologian, a social scientist, a scholar of the eastern church, an historian, and a systematic theologian). Combined, they form a thorough picture of the difficulties faced by the so-called Kasper Proposal, and are a great testimony to the intellectual life in the Church.

[Sebastián Camacho Chavarría]

Sublime defensa de la verdad de valientes hombres de FE

[Daniel Volpato]

This book is composed of several essays on the topic of marriage and Holy Communion for civilly remarried people. Sometimes it gets repetitive, due to the contents of the essays overlaying each other. Nevertheless, it is a very nice book, and the arguments favoring the tradicional practice of the Church in regard to Communion are made very clear.

[Jed Park]

A powerful remedy for our divorce culture.