Rorate Caeli: Cardinal Kasper’s public endorsement of Elizabeth Johnson is very significant as she is one of the very few theologians ever to have a book publicly censured (in 2011) by the Committee on Doctrine of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops. The Committee was at that time led by Donald Cardinal Wuerl, who is nobody’s idea of a “conservative”. The awarding to her of the LCWR’s “Outstanding Leadership Award” this year was also denounced only a few days before by Cardinal Müller as an “open provocation against the Holy See and the Doctrinal Assessment” because of “the gravity of the doctrinal errors in that theologian’s writings”. Cardinal Müller predicted that this move “further alienates the LCWR from the Bishops”; but it certainly does not alienate them from Cardinal Kasper, who also went on to criticize the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith: Read here.
