{"id":2520,"date":"2008-07-31T12:22:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-31T12:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/standingonmyhead\/2008\/07\/cardinal-kasper-clarifies-the-situation\/"},"modified":"2008-07-31T12:22:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-31T12:22:00","slug":"cardinal-kasper-clarifies-the-situation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/standingonmyhead\/2008\/07\/cardinal-kasper-clarifies-the-situation.html","title":{"rendered":"Cardinal Kasper Clarifies the Situation"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_5BV_YADVD7o\/SJHnvhZRTxI\/AAAAAAAABvg\/3Wmt0IGwDHc\/s1600-h\/CardinalKasper.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_5BV_YADVD7o\/SJHnvhZRTxI\/AAAAAAAABvg\/3Wmt0IGwDHc\/s320\/CardinalKasper.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a> I remember after the Church of England voted to ordain women Pope John Paul II came out with Ordinatio Sacerdotalis in which he concluded with the very terse statement: <em>\u201cWherefore, in order that all doubt may be removed regarding a matter of great importance, a matter which pertains to the Church\u2019s divine constitution itself, in virtue of my ministry of confirming the brethren (cf. Lk 22:32) I declare that the Church has no authority whatsoever to confer priestly ordination on women and that this judgment is to be definitively held by all the Church\u2019s faithful.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>At that point poor old George Carey said, \u201cUmm. We would like clarification on this statement.\u201d Seemed crystal to me.<\/p>\n<div>Now it is Cardinal Kasper\u2019s turn. He has spoken very clearly to the Anglican bishops stating that their present course has pretty much blocked all chances of either recognition of Anglican orders or re-union with Rome. Wish I could have been there to hear the response of the Anglicans. I know the response of many of them: \u201cWe never wanted to be Catholic anyway. Let Kasper go be a friendly ghost somewhere else.\u201d<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>Anyhow, Fr Jeffrey Steel provides highlights of Cardinal Kasper\u2019s address to the Lambeth conference <a href=\"http:\/\/www.frjeffreysteel.blogspot.com\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">here,<\/a> and links to the full text of Cardinal Kasper\u2019s address.<\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I remember after the Church of England voted to ordain women Pope John Paul II came out with Ordinatio Sacerdotalis in which he concluded with the very terse statement: \u201cWherefore, in order that all doubt may be removed regarding a matter of great importance, a matter which pertains to the Church\u2019s divine constitution itself, in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":557,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Cardinal Kasper Clarifies the Situation<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"I remember after the Church of England voted to ordain women Pope John Paul II came out with Ordinatio Sacerdotalis in which he concluded with the very\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/standingonmyhead\/2008\/07\/cardinal-kasper-clarifies-the-situation.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Cardinal Kasper Clarifies the Situation\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I remember after the Church of England voted to ordain women Pope John Paul II came out with Ordinatio Sacerdotalis in which he concluded with the very\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/standingonmyhead\/2008\/07\/cardinal-kasper-clarifies-the-situation.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Fr. 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