Posted on 09/01/2022 7:05:03 PM PDT by marshmallow
CNA Newsroom, Aug 29, 2022 / 10:05 am The chief organizer of the Catholic Church’s Synod on Synodality has decried as “denunciation" the number of public criticism of the German "Synodal Way."
Cardinal Mario Grech said he did “not agree with the method used by the critics" of the German process in an interview with the German publication "Herder Thema."
The secretary general for the Synod of Bishops added that he disapproved of the style: "I think a fraternal correction and dialogue is very positive. But why a public denunciation? It doesn't help. It only polarizes further."
Grech also said he could "not say why there was this criticism” of the process, CNA Deutsch, CNA’s German-language news partner, reported.
He said he tried to follow the German event. “But for me, it's one thing to follow what gets published and another thing to follow what is really going on. It's a process."
"Maybe the communication, in general, could have been handled better," the cardinal said.
"This would have contributed to a better understanding of what was happening in Germany." Nonetheless, he said, he had "confidence in the Catholic Church in Germany, and that the bishops know what they are doing."
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Does he have any comment on the “denunciation” of the Latin Mass?
Yeah, he had a snarky comment about the Latin Mass. A journalist asked him, “You say that the synod on synodality is all about listening to the faithful. Will this include listening to the Latin Mass people?” His response was along the lines: “It’s also necessary for the laity to listen to the bishops sometimes.”
He (Grech) was one of two authors of the Maltese bishops' controversial pastoral guidelines on Amoris laetitia, which stated that divorced and remarried Catholics, in certain cases and after "honest discernment," could receive Communion.
Many cafeteria Catholics agree.......
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