Posted on 08/05/2023 11:41:29 AM PDT by ebb tide
In a newly published interview, Pope Francis described the ongoing Synod on Synodality as fulfilling “the dream of Paul VI” and underscored that the process is about recovering a lost form of ecclesial participation, not changing doctrine.
The Holy Father also confirmed rumors that Cardinal Matteo Zuppi, the Vatican’s special envoy for peace in Ukraine, will soon be visiting China. The pope described Zuppi’s “scheduled stopover” in Beijing as part of the Vatican’s “peace offensive,” which has already included visits to Kyiv, Moscow, and Washington, D.C. The Pope said he is considering appointing a permanent representative to serve as a bridge between Russia and Ukraine.
Pope Francis also shared his concerns over what he called “ideological” youth groups and “rigid” priests and seminarians.
“We need normal seminarians, with their problems, who play soccer, who don’t go to the neighborhoods to dogmatize,” said the Pope in the wide-ranging interview published by Nueva Vida, a Catholic newspaper based in Spain.
The published interview was the product of a multi-hour discussion between the pope and Nueva Vida staff that was held at Domus Santa Maria, the pope’s Vatican residence. Pope Francis has made it a hallmark of his papacy to give similar wide-ranging interviews to select publications, often making some of his most provocative statements in such contexts.
Synod Concerns Misplaced?
Regarding the synod, the Pope said that he was beginning with what St. Paul VI started when the latter recognized at the end of Vatican II that “the Church in the West had lost the synodal dimension” and created the Secretariat of the Synod of Bishops “to start working on it.”
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The Pope also shared an experience of speaking to a religious sister who expressed concern to him that the Synod on Synodality, which holds its first universal assembly this October in Rome, would change the Church’s doctrine.
“Tell me, dear, who put that into your head?” the Pope said he responded. The synod, he said, “is about moving forward to recover the synodal dimension that the Eastern Church has and we lost.”
Barf Alert Ping
False prophet. Need I say more?
I’m starting to think that publication is itself not Catholic, they keep referring to that defiler as Pope.
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