I te tau 1993 German episekopo Walter Kasper, Karl Lehmann, ko Oskar Saier i te reta pānui i roto i nga hahi o ratou dioceses mea tenei pātai o te Hāhi mo Katorika whakarerea "i roto i te matatini, take takitahi" i hiahiatia ki te kia whakautua. I muri i te whakaputanga e te Holy See i te tau 1994 o te "Letter to the Bishops of The Catholic Church Concerning the Reception of Holy Communion by the Divorced and Remarried Members of the Faithful" e kī ana "ko te hunga kua whakarerea, kua marenatia i runga i te ture a te iwi [...] e kore e taea te whiwhi i te Hunga Tapu i te wa e mau tonu ana tenei ahuatanga", "i haere tonu a Kasper raua ko Lehmann i te tautohetohe i roto i tetahi roopu kore-tuhi o nga tohunga, i tapaina ko te roopu St. Gallen i muri i te kainga i Switzerland i tutaki ai ratou". I te tau 2006, i muri i te pōtitanga o Josef Ratzinger
I te tau 2013, ka wehe te roopu, engari i te wa i pootihia ai a Bergoglio i te tau 2013, ka hoki mai a Kasper ki te rongonui mo tenei take.