Well, if that is indeed big news, this should be even bigger news. Fr. Z says this same liberal asst to the head of the committee could be Pope Francis' choice to replace Mueller at CDF:
“The truly bizarre document that the Vatican released Monday”...Similarly, an American journalist [Michael Voris!] raised a question about the absurd phrase in section 50: “Homosexuals have gifts and qualities to offer to the Christian community.” In one way, of course, this is true, since all people have gifts and qualities. The journalist wanted to know, however, whether the Synod fathers were saying that homosexuals have gifts to offer precisely because of their homosexuality? That seemed to be implied.
Sadly, more inconsequential commentary followed. [From Bruno Forte... who, under this Pope, will probably be the next Prefect of CDF if Müller is exiled.] The Synod has been talking a great deal about its respect for the intelligence of the Catholic laity. [Is that why they put a media quarantine around the Synod?] But no Catholic layperson of any intelligence left the press conference yesterday thinking that this subject – and several others – was anything other than more confused than ever and perhaps inclining towards things gay activists have been seeking that cannot be squared with the Gospel.
Hopefully Fr. Z's comment was just tongue in cheek gallows humor. I hope its not really a rumor in Rome. Too many of these nightmare rumors have come to pass in the last year and a half.
Even Dolan said para 48 (the one about homosexuals), was put in the document after everyone had reviewed the report. They had no type to offer criticism. The sorry SOB Forte should be fired.............but............
“On Monday, 14 October 2013, the Archbishop was appointed by Pope Francis to serve as the Special Secretary of the Third Extraordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops on “The challenges of the family in the context of evangelization”, scheduled from 5 October – 19 October 2014.”
He’s a liberal, therefore he’s a favorite of liberal Francis. Francis probably told him to put in the blasphamy
about homosexuals in the report. Francis will turn out to be the worst Pope in the last 500 years. Hopefully after this debacle on the family the rest of the bishops will accuse him of heresy and get rid of him.