Posted on 07/31/2019 6:41:58 PM PDT by marshmallow
Erwin Kräutler, 80, says women, as well as married men, should be eligible for priesthood
The Synod of Bishops' special assembly for the Pan-Amazon Region, which is set to take place next October at the Vatican, will be not be derailed by those who have harshly criticized the assembly's working document (Instrumentum Laboris).
That's the promise of Bishop Erwin Kräutler, an Austrian-born Precious Blood Missionary who has spent most of his adult life ministering to people in the vast Brazilian Rain Forest. He is one of 18 people Pope Francis named last year to the pre-synodal council that has been preparing the upcoming assembly on the Amazon.
The 80-year-old bishop retired in 2015 after nearly 35 years as head of the Territorial Prelature of Xingu, the largest geographical diocese in Amazonia. Covering an area of 142,000 square miles, Xingu would be fifth largest American state behind only Alaska, Texas, California and Montana.
"We are concerned with the people of our region"
Kräutler has long been a fierce defender of the rights of the indigenous peoples of the Amazon region. And for this he has been loathed and criticized by the wealthy landowners.
He was president from 2006-2015 of the Brazilian bishops-sponsored Indigenous Missionary Council, an organization whose primary goal is to support indigenous peoples in their fight for recovery, demarcation and integrity of their territories.
Because of this, and despite being retired, Kräutler is playing an active role in the upcoming Synod assembly. And in a recent series of interviews with Austrian media, he defended the assembly's Instrumentum Laboris against those who are opposing the text and even the assembly itself.
(Excerpt) Read more at international.la-croix.com ...
“We are concerned with the people of our region”
Give them Christ then!!!!
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