About the Youth Synod

[adgloriam]

I might have been the exception in that respect. My parents made friends with loads of priests and we often had them over for dinner, family parties, Mass in the living room… My godfather is a priest. I’m sure it helped that my father’s sister was a Dominican.

And I am very happy for you sister in Christ, for in a way you were privileged and your family made right decisions. So let me, if you permit, give one last thought coming from my insignificance: Don’t worry about any synod more than a grain of sand. The pope didn’t ask us to go to synods, the pope asked us to go to the fringes.

And since, for a time in your life, you sat at that dinner table in that company -don’t worry about the synod- go towards those who never spoke with a priest, who haven’t gone to church in a decade or more - who never heard of a synod and won’t hear of it anytime soon…Perhaps those are the one’s where our thoughts and priorities should be. Because in the upcoming times more are more of the latter will need tending, the synod is bound to change little for them - on the fringes.

[As if by coincidence sometimes I thought throughout my life, that any good works should be request of those sitting at certain tables in certain companies, tables and companies I wasn’t invited to participate in. Then I picked up my cross and all of that goes with it.]

 

[adgloriam]

I’ll get back to you on your post.

 

[gracepoole]

The article is just an opinion piece without the stats, and a rather mean-spirited, haughty piece, IMO.

Eh, I kind of said as much. I included it as a springboard to discussion of views on the synod.

 

[gracepoole]

I think we need a Synod on Human Sexuality. The underlying question that needs to be addressed is, What is sex for? The confusion on this matter has led to many of the problems we are facing today (clergy sex abuse crisis, #MeToo movement, gender identity, same-sex marriage, etc.).

Humanae Vitae (July 25, 1968) | Paul VI

A synod in which youth and bishops engage with one another frankly seems in really poor taste right now. For all the obvious reasons.

 

[OraLabora]

I think we need a Synod on Human Sexuality. The underlying question that needs to be addressed is, What is sex for? The confusion on this matter has led to many of the problems we are facing today (clergy sex abuse crisis, #MeToo movement, gender identity, same-sex marriage, etc.).

While I don’t disagree, respectfully, I think that the abuse crisis has rather damaged the Church’s credibility on sexual matters. I think a long period of rebuilding trust in her clergy will be necessary before the average person in the pew will be willing to listen to the Church on sexuality. Perhaps a synod should focus on rebuilding that credibility.