Jesuit chief rejects charges of ‘heresy’ for views on Gospels

Rejecting charges of “relativising” the words of Jesus, and even doctrinal heresy, the superior general of the worldwide Jesuit order on Sunday, Apr 9 stood by his insistence that no one was tape-recording Christ, and therefore, statements attributed to him in the New Testament, including on marriage, have to be “interpreted.”

Apr 22, 2017

VATICAN: Rejecting charges of “relativising” the words of Jesus, and even doctrinal heresy, the superior general of the worldwide Jesuit order on Sunday, Apr 9 stood by his insistence that no one was tape-recording Christ, and therefore, statements attributed to him in the New Testament, including on marriage, have to be “interpreted.”

“I don’t know why so many people got mad at me for what I said, which is that, in the time of Jesus, there were no tape-recorders, because it’s the truth,” said Father Arturo Sosa Abascal of Venezuela, who took over last October as the 31st Superior General of the Jesuits.

The reference is to a controversy that broke out in February, when Sosa gave an extended interview to veteran Swiss Vatican journalist Giuseppe Rusconi.

What Abascal said was that “over the last century in the Church there has been a great blossoming of studies that seek to understand exactly what Jesus meant to say… That is not relativism, but attests that the word is relative, the Gospel is written by human beings, it is accepted by the Church which is made up of human persons… So it is true that no one can change the word of Jesus, but one must know what it was!” -- Crux and LifeSiteNews

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