Consequently we know
nothing except that man was created by God as God's
personal partner in a sacred history of salvation and perdition; that concupiscence and death do not belong to man as God wills him to be, but to man as a sinner; that the first man was also the first to incur guilt before God and his guilt as a factor of man's existence historically brought
about by man, belongs intrinsically to the
situation in which the whole subsequent history of humanity unfolds.
In his address to the College of Cardinals in 2014, in numerous interviews since then, and in
personal correspondence, Cardinal Walter Kasper often suggests that there would be
nothing really new
about the Catholic Church, after due deliberation and consensus - building, finding a «path» toward admitting a divorced and civilly remarried Catholic to Holy Communion after a penitential period, an «honest judgment of the person concerned
about his
personal situation,» and support from a sacramental confessor.