LUTHER WITH ARCHBISHOP LUIGI NEGRI FORGIVING IS TOO AND TOO SEVERE

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Present Lutheranism as simply different or different from Catholicism means giving him a driver's legitimacy. In fact, being different or different is an asset and not a defect.

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Excellency

Luigi Negri

Archbishop of Ferrara-Comacchio

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On behalf of myself and the priest Ariel S confrere. Levi di Gualdo, with whom I send back the beautiful experience of this ever most visited online magazine The Isle of Parmos, I wish to express my warmest congratulations for acute critical observations that Your Excellency Rev.ma expressed in the recent interview with Helm, then reported the following New Daily Compass [cf. WHO]. Nevertheless I dare to expose some of my reservations about the following points:

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1) The talk of faith as "experience" It is already a grant to Luther what does not should be granted, since experience is the property of love and not of the faith. And indeed, precisely, Luther just confuses the faith with the charity. It would be better instead to refer to the true concept of faith taught by Vatican Council I: «FFaith is a supernatural virtue, via, God's help and the help of grace, he had revealed to be true, not because of the intrinsic truth of the things perceived by the natural light of reason?, but because of the authority of God himself » [Denz. 3008] [1]

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His judgment on Lutheranism, one part is too forgiving, but on the other it is too severe.

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b) But you have not even too accentuate errors. So it is not appropriate to speak of difference "immeasurable": in reality, as noted by the Decree on Ecumenism Reintegratio [cf. WHO], we and the Lutherans have a common measure, which is Christ, from which the fundamental dogmas come, that have remained in common: the Holy Trinity, the Incarnation, the Redemption, Baptism, in the common love for the Bible and the faith that we are saved by grace. Ignore these common data is unjust and offensive to the Lutherans.

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2) Nor do I agree with the defeatist attitude of Jean Guitton. He seems to say,: “They are hopelessly different. Let them so”. Not at all! This is not the teaching of Unity redirection which instead he says to the n. 3 that the separated brethren "must be incorporated into the Catholic Church", which obviously supposes that in the "recognition of common values" we help them to correct themselves from their mistakes.

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The church, in conclusion, commands us to have the attitude that for them the doctor against the sick. The doctor from the consideration of healthy resources, which remain ill, relying on them to prescribe the most appropriate and best care.

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With sincere devotion, his

Giovanni Cavalcoli, o.p.

Varazze, 27 September 2016

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[1] Ed. Trad.. en. "Faith is a supernatural virtue, with which, under the inspiration and the grace of God, we believe that the things revealed by Him are true, not for their intrinsic truth identified with the natural light of reason, but for the authority of the same God who reveals " [Dogmatic constitution the son of God, First Vatican Ecumenical Council, cap III, Faith]

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