Gänswein: Religion, Sexual Behavior Will "Not Matter" At Last Judgement

dowd

Jun 7, 2019

The tentative conclusion to be had from Ganswein remarks is Catholic moral teaching on sexuality and marriage is rather pointless as sexuality and its practice are "accidental". I see this as heretical.

Matt B

Jun 6, 2019

What? Of what does the Final Judgment consist, then? Is the only question "Did you have a human nature?"

frjimanderson

Jun 6, 2019

He will see Jesus once. then...

advoluntas@aol.com

Jun 6, 2019

Burn baby burn

JTLiuzza

Jun 6, 2019

This guy is not a Catholic. This is a different faith, folks. That said, Jorge will probably make him a Cardinal.

advoluntas@aol.com

Jun 6, 2019

Fr Jorge will probably burn in you know where. Beware of those who cause scandal says the Lord

Carmine3

Jun 6, 2019

This is either confused translation or reporting or else Ganswein is simply following the master of confusion himself, Bergoglio. The nature and call of human being is the freedom to choose between good and evil as God, not men, has defined them. The rest is accidental claptrap.

Dr Bobus

2 Jun 6, 2019

Holiness is also accidental. There is not an essential difference between a murderer and Maximillian Kolbe--both are still men.

Abp Georg Gänswein is theologically deficient. No surprise, that.

CatMuse

Jun 6, 2019

The accidentals are chosen. The human being chooses to distort his humanity in the pursuit and patterning of theses perverse accidentals. I cannot see how that choice is not a decisive one. Unless he means that God judges the perverse choices and not the resulting accidentals but why the obscurity?

Andrew Byrne

Jun 7, 2019

I suspect you have misunderstood Archbishop Ganswein's remarks.
Certainly that is the impression I get from a Google translation into English of his Karlsruhe speech that was given in German. He was certainly not downplaying the importance of homosexual behaviour, but pointing out the difficulties that come up when secularised society refuses to recognise Catholic teaching in moral matters (…More

I suspect you have misunderstood Archbishop Ganswein's remarks.
Certainly that is the impression I get from a Google translation into English of his Karlsruhe speech that was given in German. He was certainly not downplaying the importance of homosexual behaviour, but pointing out the difficulties that come up when secularised society refuses to recognise Catholic teaching in moral matters (such as divorce, marriage, etc.).
It might be good to point out that as well as working for Pope Francis he remains - as far as I know - secretary to Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI.