Posted on 10/20/2014 10:12:02 AM PDT by Citizen Zed
What began with the Holy Father asking more than 250 participants inside the hall to speak their minds on issues of the family ended with them giving him a five-minute standing ovation. And beyond the hall, the synod prompted a dynamic conversation about where the global Catholic Church is headed under Pope Francis’ leadership.
If there is a single takeaway, it may be this: Pope Francis showed the world that he is not afraid of making mistakes. He takes risks, and his commitment to listening allows a host of voices to rise and controversy to surface.
The first big surprise came on the first day of the second week, when Cardinal Péter Erdő of Hungary—the synod’s organizer and a man usually seen as a conservative—read aloud a mid-Synod report that to many sounded like a shift in tone on welcoming the gay community. Liberals cried victory and conservatives urged caution. Three days later, the Vatican revised the section headline “welcoming homosexual persons” to “providing for homosexual persons”—but only in English, leaving the official Italian verb the same.
(Excerpt) Read more at time.com ...
And Time considers this a virtue in a Pope? It certainly is not.
He showed signs of being Peter the Roman.
This Pope is an old hippie. It’s all peace and love until they don’t get their way.
In an interview he gave to Catholic News Service, Cardinal Pell revealed that
three of the synod’s 10 small groups had supported a controversial proposal by German Cardinal Walter Kasper to make it easier for divorced and civilly remarried Catholics to receive Communion, even without an annulment of their first, sacramental marriages.
But Cardinal Pell offered this opinion on what the controversy was really about:
“Communion for the divorced and remarried is for some – very few, certainly not the majority of synod fathers – it’s only the tip of the iceberg, it’s a stalking horse. They want wider changes, recognition of civil unions, recognition of homosexual unions,” Cardinal Pell said. “The church cannot go in that direction. It would be a capitulation from the beauties and strengths of the Catholic tradition, where people sacrificed themselves for hundreds, for thousands of years to do this.”
I think Cardinal Pell hit the nail right on the head.
No one who really knows the Great and Mighty God would deliberately take any risk of offending Him.
"Blessed is every one that feareth the LORD, that walketh in His Way" (Ps. 128:1 AV)
To fear the LORD is to dread to disappoint or to disobey Him, as we would feel toward our most beloved dear ones.
Either that or he's a dope.
. . . that walketh in His Ways
The closing mass beatification of Pope Paul VI is everything you really need to know about how the Synod might lead to changes in church teaching.
No heretical Belgians were given equal time, were they?
Parish up the road here just announced a $4 million fundraising campaign to build a new Parish Hall.
Gotta grow that pie somehow, someway....
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