“The Restoration of Man”: Cardinal Carlo Caffarra’s Final Testimony

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"Italian Cardinal Carlo Caffarra of Bologna talks with a bishop outside the morning session of the extraordinary Synod of Bishops on the family at the Vatican Oct. 16, 2014. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)"

Editor’s note: The following text was an address to be read by Cardinal Carlo Caffarra, archbishop emeritus of Bologna, at the yearly meeting organized in Milan by “La Nuova Bussola Quotidiana” [The New Daily Compass], on September 10th. Cardinal Caffarra died suddenly on September 6th. The address was then published in La nuova Bussola Quotidiana and is reprinted here by kind permission of that journal’s editor, Riccardo Cascioli. The text has been translated to English by Alessandra Nucci and Andrew Guernsey. More

Source:
CWR: “The Restoration of Man”: Cardinal Carlo Caffarra’s Final Testimony, Sept. 20, 2017

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"Man does not live in a house with no doors and no windows; he lives within a culture, he breathes a 'spirit of the times', which, supported today by powerful means of producing consensus, more often than not contributes to advancing the factors which are destructive of man. I will limit my survey to just two of these factors: the counterfeiting of moral conscience; the separation of freedom from truth." More

 

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"It is dramatically urgent for the Church to put an end to its silence on the subject of the supernatural. The more the Church progresses in worldliness, the more the truth of original sin and faith in the need for redemption, the two hinges which the entire Christian proposal is based upon, is obfuscated in the conscience of the Christian people." More