Posted on 01/13/2017 6:10:07 PM PST by marshmallow
In a letter to young people Pope Francis said their responses will form the basis for next year's summit
Pope Francis has asked young people to tell him, their bishops and pastors about their hopes and struggles and even their criticisms.
As the Catholic Church prepares for a meeting of the Synod of Bishops focused on youth, the Pope wrote a letter to young people saying the Church wants “to listen to your voice, your sensitivities and your faith, even your doubts and your criticism. Make your voice heard, let it resonate in communities and let it be heard by your shepherds of souls.”
The Pope’s letter was released as officials presented the preparatory document for the synod. The document includes a series of questions to be answered by national conferences of bishops and other Church bodies. The responses, along with input from young people themselves, will form the basis of the working document for the synod.
Pope Francis chose “Young people, faith and vocational discernment” as the theme for the 15th general assembly of the Synod of Bishops, which will be held in October 2018.
Young people will have an opportunity to contribute to the working document by submitting reflections “on their expectations and their lives” through a website – www.sinodogiovani.va – that will be launched on the first week of May, according to Bishop Fabio Fabene, undersecretary of the Synod of Bishops.
In his letter, Pope Francis used God’s call to Abraham as a model of God’s call to each believer. The patriarch, he said, “received a compelling invitation, a challenge, to leave everything and go to a new land. What is this ‘new land’ for us today, if not a more just and friendly society which you, young people, deeply desire and wish to build to the very......
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He won’t like what I have to say.
How about bring back the old mass and teach the catholic faith.
That would be exclusive not INCLUSIVE.
Not very new age of you.
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If you taught Catholicism you would be excluding, Muslims, Buddhist and Jews not to mention all of the Protestants.
In this modern age we have to be inclusive of every heretic and non-believer. No matter how much they hate us.
I know your post was sarcasm, but this would fall under the category of "Not the Eye of the Tiber"... far too many Catholic prelates actually think this way.
Ending that thinking and focusing on BEING CATHOLIC is the only way to encourage young people to take seriously and be willing to embrace the difficult vocations of authentic Catholic marriage, meaningful religious life, fruitful ministry in Holy Orders, or intentional and generous single life.
Sadly, I think the current Holy Father is incapable of grasping this.
And just as bad, perhaps worse professors, instructors and administrators and Catholic seminaries and universities also think this way.
But, not apparently if they like the Latin Mass. He implied those young people who did were mentally ill, suffering from insecurity or something -- he wasn't sure.
Francis needs the young to advise him on Doctrine, I guess. He needs to know their preferences before he rewrites the Magisterium?
Now there is an original idea !
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