Cardinal Kasper is right: four words you would have never thought you might read here:
Cardinal Kasper laments lack of communication in the Church
"We need a ongoing dialogue process of the bishop with priests and faithful"
Cardinal Walter Kasper church believes a better culture of dialogue is necessary. "We have a basic lack of communication in the Church," Kasper said on Wednesday in the Bonn-published German Ecumenical newsletter Predigtpreis.
As a means, he recommends a renewing of the instrument of synods, already laid down in the Acts of the Apostles. This has however in the new canon law been little implemented: "In the old canon law before the Second Vatican Council, a Diocesan synod had to be held no later than every ten years. We need a ongoing culture of dialogue of the bishop with priests and faithful." [Source: Catholic Church Conservation.]
This blog asks: was there actually anything in the Church, anything at all, that was qualitatively improved following the last Ecumenical Council? Ah, yes, the vernacular - it was indeed impossible to understand those "services conducted in Latin"!
