Posted on 06/20/2023 12:11:52 PM PDT by ebb tide
In advance of a pivotal October assembly on synodality, a new Vatican document released Tuesday outlines key questions for what now promises to be a wide-ranging discussion on Pope Francis’ vision of a more inclusive, decentralized and “listening” Church.
The highly anticipated text, referred to as the instrumentum laboris or “working tool” for the upcoming 16th Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops, signals the beginning of a new phase of the Catholic Church’s multiyear Synod on Synodality. Drawing on listening sessions already conducted worldwide at the diocesan, national and continental level, it covers such hot-button topics as women deacons, priestly celibacy, LGBTQ outreach, and highlights a desire for new institutional bodies to allow for greater participation in decision-making by the “People of God.”
At the same time, some of the questions it frames for discussion allude to possible major changes in how the Church operates around the world, through the embrace of an open-ended “synodal” process that entails ongoing dialogue and discernment. The approach is so different, in fact, the document states, that new formation programs will need to be developed “at all levels of ecclesial life and for all the Baptized,” adding that candidates for ordained ministry “must be trained in a synodal style and mentality.”
The 50-page document was written by a committee of 22 people in April and May and approved by Pope Francis. The text itself stresses that it is “not a document of the Church’s Magisterium, nor is it the report of a sociological survey,” but instead presents the “priorities that emerged from listening to the People of God” in the global synod process thus far.
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Underscoring the possibly far-reaching scope of the assembly’s discussions, the document emphasizes that the reappearance of questions already addressed in past synods “should not be hastily dismissed,” noting that a synodal assembly is “a privileged forum” for discussing those issues again.
In other words, nothing is off the table. What prior popes declared to be anathema, are now opened up for discussion in FrankenChurch.
It also suggests that people who do not understand or agree with what has been proposed undertake a “synodal journey of effective reception.”
Those who refuse to join Team Bergoglio, will be sent to re-education camps under the direction of Humble Jorge's good friend, Xi Jinping.
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