Major Synod on Synodality Document Highlights Need to ‘Welcome’ Polygamists, ‘LGBTQ+ People’

LifeSite News ^ | 7/20/23 | Michael Haynes

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The Instrumentum Laboris is set to guide discussions between all the participants at the October Synod of Bishops, and presents numerous non-Catholic talking points.

VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) – The key document which will guide the October meeting of bishops in the Synod on Synodality highlights topics such as women’s diaconal “ordination,” married priests, and a need to “welcome” the “remarried divorcees, people in polygamous marriages, LGBTQ+ people.”

Issued at a press conference June 20, the Instrumentum Laboris (IL) or working document, is particularly lengthy: with a 10,000 word foreward and a further 17,000 words in the worksheets, which contain the themes for discussion at the upcoming synodal meeting.

As noted today by Cardinal Mario Grech – Secretary General of the General Secretariat of the Synod of Bishops – the document is born out of the various local and continental stages of the Synod which have taken place since October 2021. The text is the “fruit of this listening process,” Grech said.

He downplayed suggestions that the results of the Synod have already been written, stating that the synodal process is about “respecting the Holy Spirit” who is the “protagonist” of the process. The text presents the “fruit of a Church experience of a journey in which we have all learnt more by the mere fact of journeying together,” argued Grech.

Drawing from Lumen Gentium, the document states how it specifically “strives to avoid divisive language in the hope of furthering better understanding among members of the Synodal Assembly who come from different regions or traditions,” and that “the vision of Vatican II is the shared point of reference.”

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Sin-Nod Ping

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There are a lot of priests waiting for this so they can come out of the closet.