Moses and Kasper

Something very interesting about the Holy Father's final chat at the Synod ... he criticises those who sit in the Seat of Moses and pass Nasty Judgments ...

But ....

 .... surely ... 

... it was Moses who allowed Divorce, and it was the Man from Nazareth who abolished it. It was The Lord Jesus who set aside the Mosaic dispensation and restored the primeval character of Marriage as indissoluble (S Mark 10 and parallels). As he did so, he didn't, as it happens, make any remarks about Mercy.

This is a most clear sign that the Sovereign Pontiff
(a) is not at all keen on the Torah, the Law of Moses; and will not follow the Kaspers in cosying up to those who say that Jews are OK without Christ; and
(b) will back the words of the Incarnate Word about 'remarried' divorcees being adulterers, and His merciful restoration of His Father's will with regard to Marriage.

There is no other possible interpretation.

It looks as if the tide has turned decisively against Kasper. About time too.

Of course my tongue was in my cheek as I wrote the stuff in blue. But I do mean what follows: You know Kasper's extreme ideological views about being deferential to Judaism. So (while Kasper undoubtedly is 100% in the Bergoglio camp) I bet he still winces in the very acutest anguish every time the Pope persists in his use of Mosaic Judaism as a proxy code for "people who have judgmental attitudes". (He did this in Misericordiae Vultus: see my post of April 23.)

Think about that if you need cheering up ... old Knockwurst himself writhing in agony!! Imagine him slumped glumly in his chair wondering if there is any tactful and unembarrassing way of explaining to Bergoglio that "We don't talk about Judaism like that any more now".

Tricky for old K. He does want to encourage B in his great campaign against 'legalism' ... but ...