Posted on 10/10/2019 5:14:33 PM PDT by marshmallow
Plenary Council Member: 'We're in the birth pangs of a new Church in Australia'
A "rite of blessing" for same-sex couples and for the divorced and remarried was proposed at the conclusion of Brisbane Assembly 2019.
The Brisbane Assembly was run by the archdiocese of Brisbane, and about 400 people from across the archdiocese and various Catholic agencies attended the two-day event. It was billed as a process of "communal discernment" in preparation for the 2020 Plenary Council in Australia.
The archbishop of Brisbane, Mark Coleridge, was in the front row of the auditorium when the proposal was displayed on large screens stating that the Church should "develop a Rite of Blessing for same-sex and divorced, remarried couples."
Archbishop Coleridge is president of the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference.
The proposal will now be considered by one of six "writing and discernment" committees tasked with preparing the agenda for the Plenary Council, along with other suggestions calling for lay-led liturgy and recognition of "LGBTQI people, First Nation's people."
In his opening speech to the conference, Abp. Coleridge called for imagination.
"That's what I mean by imagination" he said. "Seeing what we haven't seen before, thinking what we haven't thought before, doing what we haven't done before."
"What do we need to let go of — things that may have worked in the past but don't work now," he added. "What new unthought things do we need to say yes to?
(Excerpt) Read more at churchmilitant.com ...
Bless your butholes.
Martin Luther, Martin Luther, please pick up the white courtesy phone.
And now we have part of the reason Cardinal Pell had to go.
Pangs is the right word.
Francischism Ping
Immoral Pagan. Doesn’t belong in any biblical clergy
New, new, new - new humanism, new paradigm, new church, any idea goes, as long as it’s new!
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