Posted on 09/18/2015 8:38:18 AM PDT by marshmallow
ROME, September 15, 2015 (LifeSiteNews) -- Life and family leaders worldwide are alarmed by a list the Vatican released today containing the names of those who will participate in the upcoming Synod on the Family, including a special list of 45 prelates handpicked by Pope Francis, many of whom publicly support positions contrary to the teaching or practice of the Catholic Church.
“The Ordinary Synod has a heterodox agenda and many of the prelates attending it have already shown themselves either supportive of that agenda or unwilling to resist it,” stated Voice of the Family, a group of Catholic laity from major pro-life and pro-family organizations worldwide, in a press release today.
“The family is now under grave danger from within the Church, as well as from international institutions and national governments,” the group said.
The list of “members by Papal appointment” includes a number of controversial figures whose actions or statements have caused Catholics from different parts of the world to question their orthodoxy:
•Cardinal Walter Kasper, the former president of the Vatican’s Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, who masterminded the proposal last year to change Catholic teaching on the reception of Holy Communion by divorced and remarried Catholics objectively living outside of God’s laws.
•Cardinal Godfried Danneels, the former archbishop of Mechelen-Brussels in Belgium, who in 1990 tried to convince Belgian King Baudouin to sign an abortion bill into law. In 2013 Danneels referred to gay “marriage” laws as a “positive development.” Cardinal Danneels was infamously caught on a recording urging a victim of 13 years of sexual abuse at the hands of his friend and colleague Bishop Roger Vangheluwe not to go to the police. This is the second time he has been personally invited by Pope Francis to be a....
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There are those that are surprised by Barry’s guest list for the Pope. I am not.
“If you like your religion, you can keep your religion.”
Perhaps they were not Barry’s guests after all, but individuals requested by da Pope.
Wellll GolllllLLLyyy Sgt Carter, Suhprize Shuprize!! We can get married.. Pope won’t mind. Some Dare Call It Progress.
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