[Grem] Fr.Weinandy: Church teaching under 'subtle, but well-defined attack'

[Emoke Greschik]

 Fr Weinandy: Church teaching under ‘subtle, but well-defined attack’
by *Staff Reporter <http://catholicherald.co.uk/author/staff-reporter/>*
posted Saturday, 24 Feb 2018
http://catholicherald.co.uk/news/2018/02/24/fr-weinandy-
church-teaching-under-subtle-but-well-defined-attack/
(CNS)

*The US theologian said **the Church's catholicity **is being dissolved*

*The Church’s unity, apostolicity and Catholicity* *are under attack from
its own leadership*, the former head of the US bishops’ doctrinal committee
has said.

Fr Thomas Weinandy, a member of the Vatican’s International Theological
Commission, said *the Church’s “four defining ecclesial marks” – the fact
it is “One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic” as defined in the Nicene
Creed *– *are
currently under a “subtle, but well-defined attack”.* *That threat is
coming, he added, “regrettably from within Church leadership.”*

In a speech at the University of Notre Dame in Sydney, Australia on
February 24, Fr Weinandy called for a “robust defence” of the four marks,
otherwise the Church’s identity will become “disordered”, which will
“enfeeble” its ability to proclaim the Gospel.

“This enfeeblement, then, will also be most visibly enacted within the
Eucharistic liturgy which will not only cause scandal but also, and more
importantly, demean the Eucharistic liturgy as the supreme enactment of the
Church being One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic,” Fr Weinandy added.

*Although the Church after Vatican II has been “rife with divisions”, there
was never any doubt over official Church doctrine during the pontificates
of John Paul II and Benedict XVI, he said.*

*“Such is not the case, in many significant ways, within the present
pontificate of Pope Francis.”*

*Although much of Pope Francis’s pontificate is “admirable and
praiseworthy”,** he* h*as at times appeared to identify himself *“not as
the promoter of unity but* as the agent of division,” *Fr Weinandy said

*Much of this division stems from the fact some bishops have used Amoris
Laetitia to allow divorced and remarried Catholics to receive Holy
Communion.*

“For Pope Francis … as seen in Amoris Laetitia, to re-conceive and newly
express the previously clear apostolic faith and magisterial tradition in a
seemingly ambiguous manner, so as to leave confusion and puzzlement within
the ecclesial community, is to contradict his own duties as the successor
of Peter and to transgress the trust of his fellow bishops, as well as that
of priests and the entire faithful,” Fr Weinandy said.

The Pope’s approach “strikes at the very essence of the Petrine ministry as
intended by Jesus and continuously understood by the Church”.

“The successor of St Peter, by the very nature of the office, is to be,
literally, the personal embodiment and thus the consummate sign of the
Church’s ecclesial communion, and so the principle defender and promoter of
the Church’s ecclesial communion,” he said.

“Thus, a manner of proceeding that allows and even encourages doctrinal and
moral divergences undermines the whole of Vatican II’s teaching on
ecclesial communion, as well as that of the entire magisterial and
theological tradition going back to Ignatius.

*“By seeming to encourage doctrinal division and moral discord within the
Church the present pontificate has transgressed **the foundational mark of
the Church – her oneness.”*

*Pope Francis*’*s “ambiguous teaching at times appears to fall outside **the
magisterial teaching of the historic apostolic ecclesial community*” *as it
“fosters division and disharmony rather than* *unity and peace * within the
one apostolic Church.  There appears to be, as a consequence, no assurance
of faith.”

In some ways,* this is even worse than promoting heresy*, *Fr Weinandy
added*.

*“At least heresy is a clear denial of **the apostolic faith* and so can be
clearly identified and as such properly addressed. *Ambiguous teaching,
precisely because of its murkiness, cannot be clearly identified, and so is
even more troublesome for it fosters uncertainty as to how it is to be
understood and thus how it is to be clarified.”*

*The Church’s catholicity** is also being undermined by* *Pope Francis’s
concept of synodality*, *Fr Weinandy continued*, *which creates a kind of
“theological anarchy”.*

*“We are presently witnessing the disintegration of **the Church’s
catholicity*, *for local churches, both on the diocesan and national level,
are often interpreting doctrinal norms and moral precepts in various
conflicting and contradictory ways*.  *Thus, what the faithful are
instructed to believe and practice in one diocese or country* *is not in
conformity with* *what the faithful are instructed to believe and practice
in another diocese or country,”* Fr Weinandy said.

*The Church’s holiness* *is also “under siege”, especially regarding* *the
Eucharist.*

*Allowing some civilly remarried couples to receive **Holy Communion* *while
not living in continence *a*llows a “pastoral situation to evolve” in which
“almost every divorced and remarried couple will judge themselves free to
receive* *Holy Communion.*”

T*he moral commandments* *thus become no longer **absolute laws **but
simply “ideals”.* *The result is an “overt public attack on* *the holiness
of what John Paul terms ‘the Most Holy Sacrament’.”*

*Any priest who allows someone who persists in grave sin to receive*
*Communion* *implicitly acknowledges that “sin continues to govern * *humankind
**despite* *Jesus’ redeeming work*,” *Fr Weinandy added.*

*“To allow those who persist in manifest grave sin to receive **communion*,*
seemingly** as an act of mercy, is both to belittle the condemnatory evil
of grave sin and to malign the magnitude and power of the Holy Spirit.”*

*“The Church’s very identity, our ecclesial communion*,* is being assailed*,
*and because* *she is the Church of Christ, Jesus himself* *is being
dishonoured along wit*h *his saving work*,” Fr Weinandy concluded. * “What
is presently being offered in its place is an anaemic Church, a Church
where the Holy Spirit is enfeebled, and so a Church that is incapable
of* *giving
full glory to God the Father*.”

*Fr Weinandy* *was sacked **by the US bishops in November after sending**
an open letter to Pope Francis in which he said the current papacy was
marked by a “chronic confusion”. **He also accused the Pope of teaching
with a “seemingly intentional lack of clarity”.*


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