Posted on 10/16/2015 3:58:26 PM PDT by marshmallow
VATICAN CITY (AP) — The American archbishop who welcomed Pope Francis to the final rally of his U.S. tour warned Friday that Francis' big family summit of bishops risks doing serious harm to the Catholic faith if it endorses changes to the church's practice on marriage.
Archbishop Charles Chaput of Philadelphia took to The Wall Street Journal to convey the "anxiety" and "worry" felt by many bishops over proposals at Francis' three-week synod on the family to change the church's practices of ministering to divorced and civilly remarried couples. Chaput, who hosted Francis in Philadelphia earlier this month at a big family rally, warned that a change in pastoral practice could eventually lead to a change in what Catholics actually profess.
"Practice inevitably shapes belief," he warned.
Chaput's alarm underscored the core tension running through the closed-door meeting that has laid bare the split in the Catholic Church between conservatives who insist that restating church doctrine is the best answer to families in crisis, and progressives who want to treat family problems with a more accommodating, case-by-case pastoral practice.
The tensions came to a head this week with revelations that 13 cardinals — headed by Australia's George Pell and including New York's archbishop, Cardinal Timothy Dolan — penned a letter to Francis expressing grave concerns about the way the synod was being run and warning that Rome could go the way of "collapsed" Protestant churches that abandoned core Christian beliefs in the name of pastoral "adaptation."
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If Cupich were in my RCIA class I would not, are this point, recommend him for reception into the Catholic Church.
One of the worst things Pope Francis has done was to appoint Cupich as bishop of Chicago. Chicago was a terrible mess under Bernardin, which Cardinal George did his best to straighten out. Now it’s going right back to Bernadin again.
Horrible.
I've always said...let the charges of pedophilia go before the criminal court and then go from there....
this throwing money at rich lawyers just to get out of the situation is evil.
Give your money to individual charities. There are many.
Keep coming to church and praying for the conversion of these people.
I’m not happy with a lot of the stuff going on post Vatican 2, but I don’t see any reason to let the heretics or the trouble makers deprive me of the great benefits of going to Mass, or receiving the Sacraments.
As for that Priestly pederast business, the correct name for it is homosexuality, in most cases. And most of it happened when homosexuals invaded the Church back in the 60s and 70s. The worst of it took place several decades ago, and since then there has been less of it than in many Protestant churches, or in the public schools.
Regretably, lawyers became necessary because we have evil people suing the Church for profit, and often making up stories about priests that simply aren’t true.
That and the bishops covering it all up, that had something to do with the lawyers being called in too.
It cuts both ways.
I don’t think the family has anything to do with this synod.
This excerpt quotes not Cupich, but Chaput.
This is a very important clarification to be made for those Freepers who may read only the above rendering of the longer article.
Chaput and Cupich are diametrically opposed to one another regarding the faith and practices. I regret Chaput’s name gets lost in the confusion between the two, and he is unjustly harmed as a radical liberal.
Thank you (!) for making that essential clarification. I absolutely wouldn’t want readers to mistake Cupich for Chaput.
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