Saturday, July 14, 2007

I've been waiting for some "spin" I could stomach and found some from ... Cardinal Kasper ...

"Irenic Reading" - Commonweal blog:
"Every dialogue presupposes clarity about the different positions. Our Protestant partners are the ones who have recently spoken about an ecumenism of profiles. If this declaration now explains the Catholic profile and expresses what, in a Catholic view, unfortunately still divides us, this does not hinder dialogue, but promotes it." - Cardinal Kasper
And from the comments:
  • I don't think it's necessary to say "we're right and you're wrong" to have clarity.

  • Isn't reiterating something just as hurtful as saying it the first time? Just because it's "nothing new" doesn't mean it's not offensive.

  • Fr. Tom Reese is quoted as stating that BXVI seems anxious to lay out precise definitions of terms in advance of dialogue or further theological lessons ...
At least the CDF didn't release the document on "The Twelfth".

A blog quoting Ian Paisley is cited among the comments, but I can't find anything recent - since March - on Paisley's EIPS site.

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