Leaders of the major Christian churches in Jerusalem have closed the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, built on the traditional site of Jesus’s Crucifixion and Resurrection. The closure began on Sunday in protest against a plan to tax their properties.
In a joint statement they criticised a “systematic campaign of abuse” against them, comparing it to anti-Jewish laws issued in Nazi Germany.
Cardinals clash over idea of ‘paradigm shifts’ in the Church
The Church cannot have “paradigm shifts” in the interpretation of the deposit of its faith, Cardinal Gerhard Müller has said.
The former prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith wrote that although Church doctrine did develop, it could only do so when it was grounded on what had come before.
His intervention followed a talk by Cardinal Blase Cupich entitled “Pope Francis’s Revolution of Mercy: Amoris Laetitia as a New Paradigm of Catholicity”, which called for a “revolutionary” “paradigm shift”. The talk was criticised for its ambiguity over doctrine.
Cardinal Müller, in an article for the American journal First Things, wrote: “Development of doctrine … refers to the process by which the Church, in her consciousness of the faith, comes to an ever deeper conceptual and intellectual understanding of God’s self-revelation.
“Development of doctrine is possible because in the one truth of God all the revealed truths of faith are connected, and those that are more implicit can be made explicit.” By contrast, he said, modernists sought to reinterpret doctrine and in doing so “corrupt” it rather than develop it.
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