{"id":1866,"date":"2014-04-28T14:00:06","date_gmt":"2014-04-28T21:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/?p=1866"},"modified":"2014-04-28T15:18:02","modified_gmt":"2014-04-28T22:18:02","slug":"2017-the-real-roman-catholic-roadblock-to-unity-%e2%80%93-hint-not-gay-sex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/?p=1866","title":{"rendered":"2017: The real Roman Catholic roadblock to unity \u2013  (hint: not gay sex)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sharing Communion<\/strong> by 2017 between Lutherans and Roman Catholics!?<\/p>\n<p>Munib Younan, LWF President: \u201cOur intention is to arrive at 2017 with a common Roman Catholic-Lutheran declaration on Eucharistic hospitality.\u201d<a href=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/DELL%209000\/Downloads\/The%20Real%20Roman%20Catholic%20Roadblock.doc#_ftn1\">[1]<\/a><\/p>\n<p>BUT:<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s in \u201c\u2026the far and ultimately <strong>unreachable<\/strong> distance,\u201d stated <strong>Walter Cardinal Kasper<\/strong> in his official capacity as head of the Vatican department, <em>The Pontifical Council For Promoting Christian Unity<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>For Rome sharing communion is \u201cunreachable\u201d if a church has women bishops \u2013 as Kasper warned the bishops of the Church of England in 2006.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEcumenical dialogue in the true sense of the word has as its goal the restoration of full Church Communion. That has been the presupposition of our dialogue until now. That presupposition would realistically <strong>no longer exist<\/strong> <strong>following the introduction of the ordination of women to episcopal office<\/strong>,\u201d Kasper said.<\/p>\n<p>He added that communing together is also impossible: \u201cThe shared partaking of the one Lord\u2019s table, which we long for so earnestly, would <strong>disappear into the far and ultimately unreachable distance.\u201d<a href=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/DELL%209000\/Downloads\/The%20Real%20Roman%20Catholic%20Roadblock.doc#_ftn2\"><strong>[2]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Was Younan implying the <strong>LWF will stop ordaining women<\/strong> <strong>bishops<\/strong>? Or is he simply clueless?<\/p>\n<p>You can\u2019t make this stuff up.<\/p>\n<hr size=\"1\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"dot_clear.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"8\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/DELL%209000\/Downloads\/The%20Real%20Roman%20Catholic%20Roadblock.doc#_ftnref1\">[1]<\/a>Luigi Sandri, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.christiancentury.org\/article\/2010-12\/lutheran-leader-seeks-communion-agreement-pope\" target=\"_blank\">Lutheran Leader<\/a> seeks Communion agreement with Pope,\u201d <em>The Christian Century<\/em>, 12\/17\/2010.<em> <\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/DELL%209000\/Downloads\/The%20Real%20Roman%20Catholic%20Roadblock.doc#_ftnref2\">[2]<\/a> \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholicnewsagency.com\/news\/unity_impossible_if_anglican_church_ordains_women_bishops_says_cardinal_kasper\/\" target=\"_blank\">Unity impossible<\/a> if Anglican Church ordains women bishops, says Cardinal Kasper,\u201d Catholic News Agency, 6\/8\/2006; emphasis added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sharing Communion by 2017 between Lutherans and Roman Catholics!? Munib Younan, LWF President: \u201cOur intention is to arrive at 2017 with a common Roman Catholic-Lutheran declaration on Eucharistic hospitality.\u201d[1] BUT: That\u2019s in \u201c\u2026the far and ultimately unreachable distance,\u201d stated Walter Cardinal Kasper in his official capacity as head of the Vatican department, The Pontifical Council [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1866"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1871,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1866\/revisions\/1871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}