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Francis praises major Humanae Vitae dissenter in rebuke of ‘white or black’ morality

Pope Francis addressing Jesuitss General Congregation in Rome on October 24, 2016.

ROME, November 24, 2016 (LifeSiteNews) – Pope Francis has praised the 1960s German moral theologian Bernard Häring, one of the most prominent dissenters from Pope Paul VI’s 1968 encyclical Humanae Vitae, for his new morality which the pope said helped “moral theology to flourish.”

"I think Bernard Häring was the first to start looking for a new way to help moral theology to flourish again," he said in comments, published today by La Civiltà Cattolica, that were given during a dialogue with the Jesuit order which was gathered for its 36th general Congregation on October 24, 2016 in Rome.

Pope Francis gave his comments while answering a question about a morality he has often spoken about based on “discernment.”

“Discernment is the key element: the capacity for discernment. I note the absence of discernment in the formation of priests. We run the risk of getting used to 'white or black,' to that which is legal. We are rather closed, in general, to discernment. One thing is clear: today, in a certain number of seminaries, a rigidity that is far from a discernment of situations has been introduced. And that is dangerous, because it can lead us to a conception of morality that has a casuistic sense,” he said.

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Lionel L. Andrades
Heresy denies the doctrine, and the pope has not denied it. Rather, he has tried to offer a lax application of the doctrine
Lionel:
According to Veritatis Splendor a mortal sin is a mortal sin and the external action indicates the subjective state.If a women is dressed immodestly it is a mortal sin.The outer action indicates the inner state of the soul.
If a couple are living together who are not …
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Heresy denies the doctrine, and the pope has not denied it. Rather, he has tried to offer a lax application of the doctrine
Lionel:
According to Veritatis Splendor a mortal sin is a mortal sin and the external action indicates the subjective state.If a women is dressed immodestly it is a mortal sin.The outer action indicates the inner state of the soul.
If a couple are living together who are not married it is a mortal.There is scandal.
Father Bernard Haring and Fr.Richard Cushing both Redemptorist priests said NO.
They presented many exceptions, theoretical possibilities which they considered exceptions to the tradtional moral understanding of the Catholic Church. For them exception proved the rule wrong.
They also speculated that within each person there is a Fundamental Option for good and even though the external action was a mortal sin, interiorly the soul was not in sin or to blame.They called this the Fundamental Option Theory.It is specifically mentioned in Veritatis Splendor and is criticised.
So when Pope Francis supports the Fundamental Option Theory in Amoris Laetitia he is striking at the doctrine.There is a new doctrine which has a new application.
Even after Veritatis Splendor was issued the liberals and Masons continued to teach the Fundamental Option Theory at the Pontifical universities in Rome. The books of Fr. Charles Curran ,I noticed, were available in the reference section of the University of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome.
Jungerheld
"Lax application" doesn't seem to describe what he has done/said countless times now.
rhemes1582
Can legalism be used to defend and promote error, because it seems so to me?
Dr Bobus
Heresy denies the doctrine, and the pope has not denied it. Rather, he has tried to offer a lax application of the doctrine.
Abramo
Bergoglio makes it more and more evident, that he is a heretic. This is good news because it creates clarity: He can be discarded as a whole 👏 .
Lionel L. Andrades
Amoris Laetitia uses the moral theology of Fr.Bernard Haring and his student Fr.Charles Curran.
There Fundamental Option Theory was criticized by Pope John Paul II in Veritatis Splendor.
According to Veritatis Splendor a mortal sin is a mortal sin and we can judge a mortal sin from the externals.Haring and Curing said the opposite.