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Showing posts with label Archbishop Georg Gänswein. Show all posts
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Wednesday 20 July 2016

Georg Gänswein says Pope can't change doctrine with "ambiguous footnotes." What does Thomas J. Rosica think about that?

Archbishop Georg Gänswein, serves as the Prefect for the Papal Household to Pope Francis and has made an interesting statement. According to this story in LifeSiteNews, Gänswein said:

“But when a pope wants to change an aspect of the doctrine, then he has to do so clearly, so as to make it binding,” noted the 59-year-old archbishop, a canon lawyer who formerly worked in the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. … “Important magisterial tenets cannot be changed by half sentences or somewhat ambiguous footnotes.”

The erudite, Father Thomas J. Rosica, CSB, is the Vatican's English language "volunteer" spokesman and Executive Producer of Salt + Light Television. He has said, on numerous occasions:


"Will this Pope re-write controversial Church doctrines? No. But that isn't how doctrine changes. Doctrine changes when pastoral contexts shift and new insights emerge such that particularly doctrinal formulations no longer mediate the saving message of God's transforming love. Doctrine changes when the Church has leaders and teachers who are not afraid to take note of new contexts and emerging insights. It changes when the Church has pastors who do what Francis has been insisting: leave the securities of your chanceries, of your rectories, of your safe places, of your episcopal residences go set aside the small minded rules that often keep you locked up and shielded from the world."


That is all.