Posted on 11/05/2015 1:48:05 PM PST by marshmallow
Dominican theologian Thomas Michelet lays bare the ambiguities of the synodal text. Which has not brought unity but has papered over the divisions. The conflict between "hermeneutic of continuity" and "hermeneutic of rupture." The dilemma for Francis
ROME, November 4, 2015 - Two weeks after its conclusion, the interpretations of what the synod on the family said still do not match up.
For some, this uncertain outcome was intentional. Fr. Adolfo Nicolas Pachon, the superior general of the Jesuits whom Pope Francis included on the commission charged with writing the final "Relatio," openly claimed it as a success just after the synod ended:
"In everyone's mind, on the commission, the idea was to prepare a document that would leave the doors open, so that the pope could come and go, do as he sees fit."
And in fact all the expectations are now focused on what Francis will say. Who for his part already on October 28 revealed his intentions by telephone to his friend Eugenio Scalfari, a professed atheist and the founder of the leading newspaper of Italian secularist thought, "La Repubblica," who promptly transcribed the pope's words as follows:
"The diverse opinion of the bishops is part of this modernity of the Church and of the diverse societies in which she operated, but the goal is the same, and for that which regards the admission of the divorced to the sacraments, it confirms that this principle has been accepted by the synod. This is bottom line result, the de facto appraisals are entrusted to the confessors, but at the end of faster or slower paths, all the divorced who ask will be admitted."
On November 2 Fr. Federico Lombardi, questioned in this regard by the National Catholic Register, said however that what Scalfari reported "is in no way....
(Excerpt) Read more at chiesa.espresso.repubblica.it ...
Interesting. This tussle over admitting divorcees to the sacraments is a stir on the water that signals bigger struggles underneath.
“Confusion is mightier than the sword.”
There won’t be a spilt. Liberals will just lay low until they can undermine the church again.
“There won’t be a spilt. Liberals will just lay low until they can undermine the church again.”
Indeed.
this matter over the divorcees is just the opening round of battles which will soon be engaged over sexuality. (elpadre is an admirer but not RC)
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