Posted on 10/09/2014 5:46:24 AM PDT by marshmallow
At a conference at the North American College (NAC) in Rome yesterday sponsored by Crux, the Boston Globe’s new Catholic website (video here), Australian Cardinal George Pell remarked that he was going to be a bit “ecclesiastically incorrect.” He noted the high level of trouble the family is in, not just in the developed countries, but around the world – and the quite difficult situations a conscientious bishop very quickly encounters. “I might also be tempted to hope that Christ had been a bit softer on divorce,” he concluded, “But He wasn’t. And I stick with Him.”
Perhaps the most trenchant formulation of the whole subject the Synod is wrestling with that has emerged so far this week.
New York’s Cardinal Timothy Dolan participated in the same seminar. Perhaps his most interesting contribution was to lay out the structure of each day’s work, a structure he helped design. The Synod opens each morning with prayer, of course, then spends a few minutes in reading and meditating on Scripture. The bishops and other Church officials then listen to one of the Catholic couples invited to make a presentation. Only then, are there the more formal interventions and spontaneous remarks.
A lot of the talk in these early days, according to several sources has focused on a different language and a more “gradualist” approach to reaching out to people. Cardinal Dolan made clear that the bishops are aware that this necessary adaptation to people for whom the old language doesn’t resonate cannot be an excuse for “sidestepping” the truth. (Though truth be told, that’s exactly what he himself did when a reporter asked him at the Crux event about his decision to be Grand Marshal at the next St. Patrick’s Day Parade, in which he agreed that gays could march for......
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The whole thing is a waste of time. Nothing will doctrinally change, but the attitude coming out of the conference will be a wink and nod to anything you feel like doing. Sort of like pro-abort Catholics have been doing for 50 years and getting by with it. Spineless, cowardly bishops that have abandoned the flock. Has Dolan talked about the baseball playoffs yet?
They all need prayers galore!
Amen. I’m watching the prayer vigil for Father Groschel on EWTN right now. Funeral tomorrow.
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