To live together as brother and sister? Of course I have high respect for those who are doing this. But it's a heroic act, and heroism is not for the average Christian.
Well, there we have it. Heroism is not for the average Christian. Here we have the explanation of the emptying churches in Germany and in the West generally.
Had this been the attitude of the early Christian Church, one wonders what would ever have happened.
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Cardinal Kasper comes from a country that spent most of the 20th century under one tyranny or another, and where people who wanted a quiet life no doubt told themselves that heroism was not for the average Christian.
Bullseye, Father.
Exactly Father, I think Pope Benedict says something similar here:
http://www.catholiceducation.org/en/religion-and-philosophy/faith-and-reason/conscience-and-truth.html
very sad to hear this but not surprised as it cardinal kasper
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