Rainer Beckmann

Das Evangelium der ehelichen Treue (English The Gospel of Marital Fidelity) is, as the subtitle would suggest, a personal response to Cardinal Kasper's statements about Catholics who have divorced and remarried receiving communion. The author is himself a divorced Catholic, who decided after his wife left him that he could not in good conscience begin a new relationship even though she did and all his friends said he should. Of all the books to have come out of the Synod of the Family debacle, this is by far the best of them, along with the Five Cardinals Book. It manages to combine an accessible explanation all of the theological issues involved while never forgetting that there are actual lives involved here. It's just the kind of thing that Ignatius Press would publish, and who knows, maybe one day they'll bring out a translation.

Highly recommended.… (más)