Helena Jeppesen Spuhler, center, talks with Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich, right, and Secretary General of the Synod of Bishops Cardinal Mario Grech at the end of a presentation of the new guidelines for the Synod of Bishops at the Vatican June 20.
Posted on 06/26/2023 3:48:12 PM PDT by ebb tide
Helena Jeppesen Spuhler, center, talks with Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich, right, and Secretary General of the Synod of Bishops Cardinal Mario Grech at the end of a presentation of the new guidelines for the Synod of Bishops at the Vatican June 20.
The first two things that jump out when reading the working document, or instrumentum laboris, for the forthcoming synod, which was released June 20, are how much the document charts a new approach to a working document for an ecclesial synod and how deeply the document is in continuity with the teachings of the Second Vatican Council.
Whoever came up with the idea of framing the document in terms of questions, rather than a draft text, deserves a bonus. For starters, it puts to rest one of the most common complaints about the synodal process coming from the anti-Francis bleachers, namely, that this synodal process is a smokescreen for a predetermined agenda to radically change the moral teachings of the church. After Cardinal Robert McElroy called for the synod to achieve a "radically inclusive" church earlier this year, conservative theologian Larry Chapp opined, "What it all amounts to is code for the ascendancy in the Church of the moral ethic of secular modernity and its imposition on everyone in the Church via the pathway of deceptively pre-engineered, faux democratic processes designed to produce predetermined results."
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N.B. The same Michael Sean Winters is currently celebrating Bergoglio’s persecution of Bishop Joseph Strickland.
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6/26/2023, 2:40:56 PM · by Jim Robinson
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Regarding “Michael Sean” .. There are exceptions, of course but it seems to me that men who insist on using full first and middle names are usually (1) pompous asses and (2) gay.
Cf. Neil Patrick Harris, David Ogden Stiers, David Hyde Pierce
A Vatican II view could allow for gay, lesbian unions
The Vatican II document accepts what Jesuit Fr. John Courtney Murray called the basic principle of the free society: “The usages of society are to be the usages of freedom in their full range. These require that the freedom of the human person be respected as far as possible and curtailed only when and insofar as necessary” (n. 7).
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