Leading African cardinal critiques Vatican spokesman Fr. Rosica
非洲枢机主教领袖批评梵蒂冈发言人 Rosica 神父
Patrick B. Craine
Fri Oct 9, 2015 - 9:02 am EST
https://goo.gl/lxTZsU
ROME, October 9, 2015 (LifeSiteNews) – South African Cardinal Wilfrid
Napier, a leading cardinal on the organizing committee for the Synod on the
Family, issued a pointed critique on Twitter of a controversial report on the
Synod by the Vatican’s English-language spokesman, Fr. Thomas Rosica, in
which the priest emphasized that the Church should “embrace reality” in
dealing with sinful situations.
Rosica’s summary of Synod fathers’ addresses at Tuesday’s press briefing
was criticized for its emphasis on liberal proposals and the strong language
he used to describe them. The remarks fuelled ongoing concerns from last year
’s Synod about the manipulation of the message by the Vatican press office
and the Synod’s organizing body.
After the press conference, Salt and Light TV, Rosica’s Toronto-based media
organization, tweeted out a link to an article about Rosica’s remarks,
saying, “Fr. Rosica Speaks on Synod Delegates, The Need to Embrace People
Where They Are.”
In reply, Napier tweeted: “‘Meet people where they are’ sounds nice, but
is that what Jesus did? Didn't he rather call them away from where they were?
”
At Tuesday’s press conference, Rosica had said, “There must be an end to
exclusionary language and a strong emphasis on embracing reality as it is. We
should not be afraid of new and complex situations. … The language of
inclusion must be our language, always considering pastoral and canonical
possibilities and solutions.”
Napier has been among the more outspoken tradition-minded Synod fathers. His
criticism of last year’s controversial interim report at the Synod, given at
a Vatican press conference, made international headlines. "The message has
gone out and it's not a true message," he said. "Whatever we say hereafter is
going to be as if we're doing some damage control."
“The message has gone out that this is what the Synod is saying, this is
what the Catholic Church is saying, and it’s not what we are saying at all,”
he said. "No matter how we try correcting that ... there's no way of
retrieving it."
Toronto Cardinal Thomas Collins spoke on a similar theme as Napier’s tweet
during his intervention at the Synod this year, emphasizing the need to
promote repentance and conversion while the Church accompanies people. He
described his three-minute speech to Catholic News Service on Thursday.
"The truest compassionate mercy is a compassion that challenges," explained
the cardinal. He said meeting people “where they are” comes first, "but
that is only the first thing. The second thing is to help them become what
God wants them to be."
"Just to have accompaniment as people are moving in the direction away from
the Lord is not enough. We need to be with them in order to help people to
follow our Lord,” he added.
按：
其实这标题下得不好，正确来说枢机是批评媒体所转述的罗思家神父在简报中介绍
与会主教们的发言。
简单讲，梵蒂冈发言人罗思家神父（Thomas Rosica，同时也是加拿大盐与光天主
教传媒组织的总监）在主教会议第二天的会议简报中说，在处理有关罪恶的情形，
必须强调应该要“拥抱该现实本来的样貌”（"embracing reality as it is"）。
后来 10/7，盐与光在推特上推文说，在 10/6 的简报中，罗思家神父谈论到“有
需要在人们所在之处拥抱他们”（"The Need to Embrace People Where They
Are" ）。
然后到了 10/9，南非枢机主教威弗．内皮尔（Wilfrid Napier）就在推特上公开
回应盐与光说，“‘在人们所在之处拥抱他们’听起来很好，但那是耶稣所做的
吗？他不是还要他们离开他们所在的地方？”（""Meet people where they are"
sounds nice, but is that what Jesus did? Didn't he rather call them
away from where they were?"）
内皮尔枢机的回应推文：https://goo.gl/bB6EDz
多伦多枢机主教多玛斯．柯林斯（Thomas Collins）也在上周四天主教新闻社（
Catholic News Service）的访问中说，与人们在其所在之处相遇只是第一步，第
二步则是帮助他们成为天主想要他们成为的样子。仅在人们朝着远离天主的方向上
陪伴他们是不够的。陪伴他们的目的，是让他们可以跟随基督。
* * *
然而，如果仔细去听 10/6 罗神父的发言（https://goo.gl/8ZYxJu，约从 19 分
开始），他前面的确讲了媒体所报导的话（embracing reality as it is），但后
面他继续引述主教的话：“看，天主在你所在的地方爱你，且爱你原本的样子，但
天主不想让你停留在那儿。祂想帮助你走得更远。”（"Look, God loves you
as and where you are, but God doesn't want you to stay there. He wants
you to go further."）
内皮尔枢机后来也在他的推特指明这点（https://goo.gl/JqU0PH），并说：“这
真的很奇怪，只有一半（的发言）被引述！这是不是又是另一个‘我是谁，凭什么
判断’的例子，也就是遗漏了‘如果一个人试着活出天主的法律’这一部分？”（
https://goo.gl/jwGAKI）
只能说真的要很小心媒体的报导，不只一般新闻媒体，就连天主教的媒体也都会有
立场，只报他们想报的部分……。