Schönborn: "There Is No Correct Answer to Homosexual Blessings"

"We have to accept the decline of Europe," said Cardinal Christoph Schönborn of Vienna, Austria, in connection with the low birth rates in the West, illegal mass migration and Islam: "The European population will not be the same in twenty years as it is today."

Schönborn told FamilleChretienne.fr (September 4): "For the Muslims, God has asked that the whole world be subject to him and to the Koran."

Christians and Muslims are both missionary religions, but in different ways: "We do not take up arms, but trust in the work of grace."

In Vienna, there are currently more Muslim than Christian primary school pupils.

Schönborn also commented on the homosexual pamphlet 'Fiducia supplicans', which contradicts an earlier document from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith:

"I believe that the Church has shown its own helplessness in this matter with the two successive documents from Rome. In my opinion, these texts are on shaky ground. We are faced with a question to which there can be no correct answer.”

It is the “misfortune of the German Synod” that it wants clear, unambiguous answers. But “unambiguity does not work in real life”.

The failed document ‘Traditionis custodes’, which tried to restrict the Latin Mass, is no problem for Schönborn:

"Let us accept that Francis has his reasons for closing the doors again, at least partially, just as we accepted that Benedict XVI had his reasons for opening them. Let us trust that the Lord is leading the Church. It's not a big storm!”

Speaking of the elderly generation, the "veterans of the post-conciliar era", Schönborn reminds that for young people, Vatican II is ancient history: "Our generation must look with great benevolence at this new generation, which [allegedly] switches easily between the traditional Mass and the prayer groups of the [charismatic and interreligious] Emmanuel Community,” Schönborn said.

Picture: Christoph Schönborn © mazur, CC BY-NC-SA, #newsSyuifkbvyp

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"Asked about Pope Francis’ restrictions on the Traditional Latin Mass by way of the 2021 document Traditionis Custodes, Schönborn expressed the hope that the 'new generation' might 'easily' move from the TLM to modern movements and “prayer groups” such as the Emmanuel Community.
The Austrian prelate added: 'Let us accept that Francis has his reasons for closing the doors again, at least partially, just as we have accepted that Benedict XVI had his reasons for opening them. Let us trust that the Lord is leading the Church.'"

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Denis Efimovlast year

The Lord, of course, is leading the Church. But the problem is that Francis makes himself led by Satan.

philosopherlast year

Bishop Sophistborn truth is not subjective!

JANET ZIMMERlast year

He belongs in a protestant church.

Simon Northlast year

This is the great "conservative" that brought us the so-called Catechism of the Catholic Church.

SonoftheChurchlast year

So….this, then, is the pustulant effluvia that purports to lead the Church as her Shepherds. This, is what we have come to? This is where we are? How long, O Lord…how long?

Phil48.comlast year

The weak mind of material men, like that of the Cardinal, sees only what is in front of him and is completely ignorant of the eternal truth which lies beneath. Christendom has been overwhelmed by the weak minded, "nice" men (and women) (youtube.com/watch?feature=shared&v=q2ugh_DuYMM) who lack the self-discipline to analyze and understand eternal truth just below the surface of events and movements. Have pity on him and pray for these lazy shepards who have led the sheep to slaughter.

Dr Bobuslast year

Schonborn does not have a weak mind. He is failed not by his head but by his backbone. Anytime he has to venture an opinion on anything halfway controversial, he breaks into his song and dance routine. Sad.

Phil48.comlast year

It may have been more correct to characterize the Cardinal's soul rather than mind as weak, but that is not mine to say. His behavior, even as you note, is of one who sees the superficial large and the eternal small. That is the sense in which I characterize his mind as weak.

SonoftheChurchlast yearedited

It is his WILL that is inscrutably weak. As weak and as shallow as the cries of a kitten….weak as rotted, putrid vegetables, and just as useful.

philosopherlast year

He's like a pacifist who upon seeing an intruder break into his home allows himself to be tied up while his wife and daughters are assaulted without putting up a fight and defending them. Christ did not command that men be doormats and sissies.

Dr Bobuslast yearedited

@Phila48.com The roots of all human potestates reside in the soul.

philosopherlast year

@Dr Bobus would not the mind or intellect be an aspect of the soul along with the volitional and affective centers. Aristotle notes this in De Anima that the soul being the animating Form of the body consists of mind and will. Dietrich von Hildebrand in his work The Heart accepts the Aristotelian-Thomistic view of the soul but concludes that passages in St. Thomas' writings were overlooked or de-emphasized by 19th century Tomists that support including the affective center, what the poets have called "the heart". This is the seat of compassion and courage. Homer writes that what distinguished Achilles' Mermadin Warriors from the average Greek soldier was that in the heat of battle, when all seemed lost, they stayed their courage and never lost heart.

Dr Bobuslast yearedited

@philosopher I said above that the roots of all human powers (potestates) are in the rational soul. By human, I refer not just to a power that is specifically human but to all powers, including those of the passions, in the human soul.
Backbone, or the lack thereof, refer to the Virtue of Fortitude (or the lack thereof), which refers to regulating the appetite for the Difficult Good (bonum arduum). Thus, the two extremes: Cowardice vs Rash Boldness, the first indicating a vice of defect, the latter a vice of excess, in each case referring to unruly passion. My comment on Schonborn obviously points to the latter.

philosopherlast yearedited

Unlike Islam, "we do not take up arms, but trust in the work of grace." Did he forget the warrior and knightly bishops in the Middle Ages, and the Crusaders? Their response was, the attackers of Christ and his Church, the enemies of Justice have fallen by God's Grace! What a pathetic response from Archbishop Shonborn .

Dr Bobuslast year

His comment seems to ignore the martyrdom of his fellow Dominican Peter of Verona.

Mary Louise Veritaslast year

"We have to accept the decline of Europe." And many other countries. This is because the bishops have not taught the beauty of marriage and the blessing of children for many, many years. As hey say, the horse is out of the barn. Now all they do is hand ringing.