Synod’s Final Report Lacks Bishops’ Consensus on Controversial Topics

National Catholic Register ^ | October 18, 2014 | Edward Pentin

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The fact that these three points remain in the document despite only having a “qualified majority” has surprised some observers. In common law in the Anglophone world, these paragraphs would be rejected from the final document. “This is moving into new territory,” a legal expert told the Register on condition of anonymity. “Where now is the legitimacy of these causes as an expression of the synod? They should be fully rejected.”

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Father Robert Gahl, professor of moral philosophy at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome, said that comments made from a senior synod official this week that “doctrine can change” is “confusing and unsettling for all Christians because our faith is received from the revelation of Jesus, not from the consensus from a group of bishops meeting in Rome.”

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Ping

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A synod awash in heretics, openly debating evil as a viable option. The “smoke of Satan” is oozing from their pores.

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Yes. Did you notice that each of the three paragraphs that did not get a ⅔ quorum still received the majority of the bishops' votes?

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Did you notice that each of the three paragraphs that did not get a quorum still received the majority of the bishops' votes?

Yes.

"Now I beseech you, brethren, to mark them who make dissensions and offences contrary to the doctrine which you have learned, and avoid them. For they that are such, serve not Christ our Lord, but their own belly; and by pleasing speeches and good words, seduce the hearts of the innocent."

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“require careful reflection and respectful accompaniment, avoiding the kind of language and attitudes that may make them feel discriminated against,” received over a two-thirds majority (155 votes to 19).

Now just a darned minute. Those in that situation placed themselves there. No one did it to them. Telling them the truth about their situation is not discriminating against them.