Vatican Releases Preparatory Document Ahead of 2015 Synod

The Catholic Herald (UK) ^ | 12/9/14 | Staff Reporter

[marshmallow]

Document includes 46 questions for national bishops’ conferences around the world.

The Vatican has released a 26-page preparatory document, or Lineamenta, ahead of the Ordinary Synod of Bishops which will take place at the Vatican in October 2015.

The document, based on the final report on the extraordinary synod on the family which convened earlier this year, includes 46 questions for national bishops’ conferences around the world.

According to Catholic News Service, the report asks about “possible steps” and “unnecessary impediments” to “sacramental pastoral care” of “remarried divorcees”. And, in reference to “persons with a homosexual tendency”, it asks, “how to propose to them the demands of God’s will in their situation?”

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Frances is going ahead with it, even though he got shut down in the extraordinary synod.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

Some sardonic individual imagined Francis so upset with the unwillingness of the clergy to embrace his ideas that he fires the vast majority of Cardinals, Archbishops, Bishops and Priests who are more conservative than him. Then he becomes equally annoyed with the leftists whose ideas are not identical to his, and fires them as well.

So all that is left of the clergy is himself and his mirror. And after he gets in a shouting match with his reflection, shouting “I am the church”, getting angry when his image does the same, he then breaks the mirror.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Lighten up, Francis

[Mrs. Don-o]

Did you read the same article I did?

All the "specifics" quoted here, anyway, are about upholding orthodox doctrine:

• the wording of the lineament is “designed to make clear that the basics of Catholic doctrine aren’t in doubt.”

• the term ‘indissolubility’ appears in the document four times, underlining the traditional teaching that marriage is permanent and hence divorce is taboo.

• There are also multiple references to ‘greatness and beauty’ of the ‘model of family formed by a man and a woman … and open to procreation’

• According to Catholic News Service, the report asks about “possible steps” and “unnecessary impediments” to “sacramental pastoral care” of “remarried divorcees”.

  (OK, this one's iffy, but it could be just practical things like waiver of fees for Tribunal processes for low-income people, speeding up the "final verdict" by cutting out appeals to Rome)

• And, in reference to “persons with a homosexual tendency”, it asks, “how to propose to them the demands of God’s will in their situation?”

I don't see anything particularly eek-worthy there. Some people need to come down from standing on the kitchen chair.

[lastchance]

Nudge, nudge, wink, wink. Is the impression I get when I read “sacramental pastoral care for the divorced remarried.”