Posted on 10/17/2014 9:44:02 PM PDT by NKP_Vet
VATICAN CITY — Inaccurate media reports about Church teaching on homosexuality published after the Extraordinary Synod of Bishops on the Family’s midterm relatio was released are an attempt to pressure the Church to change its perennial teaching, a cardinal who is also a synod father has said.
Cardinal Robert Sarah, president of the Pontifical Council Cor Unum, emphasized to CNA Oct. 16 that “what has been published by the media about homosexual unions is an attempt to push the Church [to change] her doctrine.”
“The Church has never judged homosexual persons, but homosexual behavior and homosexual unions are grave deviations of sexuality,” said the cardinal, who is from the West-African nation of Guinea.
Among the criticisms of the synod’s midterm relatio was the absence of some important statements, a point raised especially by some of the bishops from Africa.
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Agreed. I think we in the western world will have to turn to Africa more and more for authentic renewal of the Church: Cardinals Arinze, Sarah and Napier are showing us the way.
The one positive of all this is that we know who's who and so will the next conclave.
Bump.
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