Link (Apostasy on Full Display at the Synod in Rome)
Posted on 10/04/2024 11:05:26 AM PDT by ebb tide
A study group established by Pope Francis to develop a synodal way of discerning Catholic Church teaching on so-called controversial issues, including sexual morality and life issues, has proposed what it calls a “new paradigm” that is heavy on situational ethics but minimizes moral absolutes and established Church teaching.
The group, which is one of 10 study groups the Pope created in February to provide “in-depth analysis” of “matters of great relevance” that had emerged during the Synod on Synodality’s 2023 session, presented its findings to the synod assembly on Oct. 2, the first day of its 2024 session. A text of the presentation was shared with the press.
The group spoke of discerning doctrine, ethics and pastoral approaches by gauging people’s lived experience through consultations with the People of God and by being responsive to cultural changes. The group presented these sources as places where the Holy Spirit speaks in a way that can override and apparently contradict what the Church has already authoritatively taught.
The group, whose seven members include a controversial theologian known for questioning the existence of moral absolutes, described this approach as part of a “conversion of thought or reform of practices in contextual fidelity to the Gospel of Jesus, who is ‘the same yesterday today and always,’ but whose ‘richness and beauty are inexhaustible.’”
“Ethically speaking, it is not a matter of applying pre-packaged objective truth to the different subjective situations, as if they were mere particular cases of an immutable and universal law,” the group’s status report said before the Synod on Synodality assembly yesterday. “The criteria of discernment arise from listening to the [living] self-gift of Revelation in Jesus in the today of the Spirit.”
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No moral absolutes in FrankenChurch. They might as well toss out the Ten Commandments and the Bible while they're at it.
Sin-Nodal Apostasy Ping
“so-called controversial issues”
No, they really are controversial. They shouldn’t be, but they are.
These guys will never admit that their child molesting is wrong.
If they shaped things based on my personal youth stories, that would be bad!
Although, it seems heterosexual fooling around with people of legal age isn’t much of a shocker anymore.
I’d probably be considered a stick in the mud because I think gay marraige is silly, there’s 2 sexes, no genders except in English and hormones should be saved for weightlifters :)
If no sin, no need for Jesus’ death and resurrection. What was he so worried about? He could have been a life coach or motivational speaker instead of a Redeemer.
Either sin is real and deadly serious, or there is no point at all in following Christ.
The issue is going to come down to the question of moral absolutes vs. personal experience. Are they going to worship God or themselves. God seems to deal in moral absolutes.
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