Bishop Athanasius Schneider emphasized that accepting the practice of adultery is not fulfilling the will of God.
POLAND, August 31, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) — Pope Francis’ apostolic exhortation Amoris Laetitia “seems to” go in the direction of a pastoral “discernment” that “allows the adulterers to continue in adultery,” says Bishop Athanasius Schneider.
The consequences for many could be eternal damnation, Schneider warned. “We cannot play with our eternity. As the Proverb said, ‘We cannot play with fire.’”
And the pope bears “grave responsibility” for this situation, the auxiliary bishop of Astana, Kazakhstan, said during a recent Tradition, Faith and Property conference in Poland.
The bishop was responding to the question of how priests should apply the principle of “discernment” laid out in Amoris Laetitia to the situation of divorced and civilly remarried Catholics who don’t refrain from sexual relations, reported Church Militant.
Schneider publicly supports the four cardinals who’ve asked the pope five questions “dubia” to clear up the confusion caused by Amoris Laetitia, which is fragmenting the church as bishops and bishops’ groups issue contradictory guidelines based on differing interpretations of the controversial document.
In his answer, he distinguished true discernment from “anti-discernment” or “pseudo-discernment.”
The first such “process of discernment,” was “the dialogue of the serpent with Eve, to seek a discernment to obey God, or not to obey God,” Schneider said.
When Eve told the devil that God had said not to eat the fruit, “And then the devil said, ‘Oh, let us start a discernment … What did God say?’” he pointed out.
“And Eve said, ‘Ah, He said when we will eat we will die.’ ‘Oh no! This is not true,’ he said. ‘Let us discern. You will know what is good.’”
The result of this discernment was “a catastrophe of all humanity,” he said. “So we are now bearing in our souls, in our bodies, the consequences of that original sin, of this bad discernment.”
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