Cleric or Clown?

Cardinal Walter Kasper, who has been the key spokesman for the Extraordinary Synod of Bishops, is generally regarded as a renegade bishop who dissents from Church doctrine, but his own words suggest he may not even be a priest.

From the revelations of ex-communists like Bella Dodd, Antatoliy Golitsyn, and Manning Johnson who had testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee, we learn that a large number of Communist agents entered our Catholic seminaries in the '40s and '50s for the purpose of destroying the Church from within. The same holds true of Freemasons. Though they became "priests" and worked within the Church, their activity was greatly restricted during pre-conciliar times because of legitimate rules and regulations that were still in force. We might say the eggheads were still in incubation, but Vatican II unfortunately hatched them and sent them on their way, so that some are now holding the highest positions within the Church. However, there are key signs by which priest-infiltrators unmistakably reveal themselves. They’ll always tell you that the Bible are just stories written down by men, that we must never judge homosexuals by speaking against their vice, and that we should not rely on Jesus' words, but should look to man for the answer. Kasper has all the markings and echoes this blasphemy in his book Jesus the Christ, wherein he denies several of Jesus' miracles, casting doubt on his Transfiguration, the calming of the storm, his walking on water, his feeding of 5000, and the miraculous draught of fishes. On page 90 he says: "We must describe many of the Gospel stories as legendary." According to Kasper these accounts of the Gospel are just “fish stories.” On p. 251 Kasper also slights the Virgin Birth, saying that "it has merely the symbolic meaning of bearing witness to Jesus." Regarding the question of whether divorced and civilly remarried people who are living in adultery should be given Holy Communion, Kasper says: "This question, as many exegetical investigations show, cannot be decided by merely quoting the words of Jesus." (Walter Kasper, from his book Pope Francis' Revolution on Tenderness and Love, p. 43)

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Kasper here refers to St. Mark 10:11,12, where Jesus said, "Whosoever shall put away his wife and marry another, commits adultery against her. And if the wife shall put away her husband, and be married to another, she commits adultery." According to Kasper we cannot rely on this infallible Word of God, but should rely on his goofy ideas instead.  We need to ask ourselves: should Kasper be serving as the pope’s adviser for the upcoming Synod on the Family? His words raise serious question about his legitimacy. The mere fact that a “seminarian” goes through the motions of ordination doesn't necessarily make him a priest.  If an anti-church agent receives holy orders with the intention of destroying the Church, his ordination is null, and remains null even if he repents later.  At age 83 Kasper continues to war against the Faith, and has now shown enthusiastic and explicit support for Ireland's May 22 decision to allow gay-marriage. On May 27 he told the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera that the Church needs to address more fully the question of same-sex couples, saying that this topic was at the last Synod "only a marginal topic, but now it becomes central."  This in fact is what the previous synods on the family have been building toward under Kasper's spell---the blessing of gay unions. During the Extraordinary Synod of Bishops in October 2014, Kasper told reporters that since African, Asian, and Middle Eastern countries have a "taboo" against homosexuality, “they should not tell us too much what we have to do.”  His breach of rules is telling. Under the threat of excommunication the cardinals were sworn under oath, during the 2013 Conclave, and thereafter, to keep absolute silence about the course of the conclave and the voting. Yet Kasper of his own initiative told a German reporter: “Cardinal Bergoglio from the beginning was my candidate, I voted for him from the beginning of the conclave.”  If Cardinal Kasper is legitimate, he certainly doesn’t appear to be. As the saying goes: "If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck.” This “doctor” of dogmatic theology has shown nothing but quackery from the beginning. “By their fruits you shall know them.” (Matthew 7:20)  Pope Francis should distance himself from Kasper and his allies, and should keep the theme of this year’s extraordinary synod on the family, and not on making adulterers and unrepentant homosexuals part of God's family. Too long has Kasper the unfriendly ghost haunted the church with his weird ideas. His idea of compassion is to bless sin, which of course God will never do.  The Apostle Peter speaks of the false teachers of the last times who, as “irrational beasts,” would go about “alluring unstable souls.” (2 Peter 2:14) He points out the verdict against Sodom and Gomorrah in how these gay communities were condemned “to be overthrown, making them an example to those that should after act wickedly,” (2 Peter 2: 6), and here Kasper praises the idea of raising their criminal unions to the level of “marriage.”  Let Francis beware of the Kasperine wolf. The Church must be welcoming, yes, but to souls, not to the howling spirit of the world. The heroic way of Jesus was to rebuke the wolves and rescue the lambs from their grasp, and this is what the Bishop of Rome must do if he hopes to gather the sheep for Christ. A true pastor guards his flock!