Posted on 10/13/2015 3:25:52 AM PDT by markomalley
When the first week’s reports of the 13 small groups at the Synod on the Family were released on Friday, the influence of those who participated in May’s “Shadow Council” could be discerned in the report of the German-speaking group.
The secretive May meeting was organized by the German, French, and Swiss bishops’ conferences; and while nearly all of the small groups strongly criticized the synod’s instrumentum laboris, or working document, the German report is different, as it praises the working document for both its method and contents.
The three French speaking groups have a more nuanced approach to the instrumentum laboris, given the varied compositions of each groups, though at least one of the French groups showed a positive attitude to it.
The German group’s positive assessment of the instrumentum laboris comes from the attitude already experienced at the “shadow council.”
The German group praised the instrumentum laboris’ methodology, saying, “the overall presentation of the text found unanimous agreement. We’re also very much in agreement with the order of the document, including the structuring of the three chapters. It takes the order of papers from earliest sentence and conferences which lead from seeing to judging and finally into action.”
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Didn’t some of the Germans threaten to do their own thing if restrictions on communion for the divorced were not loosened?
Yes, thank you. That is the article I was thinking of. I also read an article that discourages compliance by conservatives if the ban is lifted. It looks like it will be difficult to reconcile the two sides after the synod.
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