Cardinal Kasper Defends Proposal, Sees "Fundamentalism" in Critics

Catholic Culture
September 30, 2014

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Cardinal Walter Kasper continued to defend his proposal to allow Communion for some divorced and remarried Catholics, and to assail critics of that proposal, in a new interview.

The German cardinal said that his critics are fearful that “if you change one point, all would collapse.” Dismissing such fears of a “domino effect,” he said that his critics were displaying “a theological fundamentalism which is not Catholic.”

In an interview with the American Jesuit magazine America and the Argentine daily La Nacion, Cardinal Kasper stressed that his proposal would change the discipline of the Church, but not the doctrine.

Cardinal Kasper also sought to put his proposal in context, noting that it would be one of many subjects for discussion during the October meeting of the Synod of Bishops. “The problem of divorced and remarried is one problem, but not the only one,” he said.