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Seraphim73
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Then there is some inherit weakness or defect in your Church.
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McCall1981
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catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/1404311.htm
Archbishop Kurtz urges more transparency at next family synod
By Francis X. Rocca
Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY (CNS) – Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz of Louisville, Kentucky, said the October 2015 world Synod of Bishops on the family should return to the practice of previous synods in publishing participants’ interventions, for the benefit of their discussions and the information of the outside world…
…“The initial document left people with many questions,” he said. “We didn’t want to leave the synod with that lack of clarity.”
Meeting in small working groups to discuss the text, a majority of synod fathers said it lacked references to relevant church doctrine and gave insufficient attention to families whose lives exemplify that teaching.
Archbishop Kurtz said his own efforts were aimed at producing a final report “grounded in sacred Scripture and in the tradition of the church in which the teachings of Jesus, of course, are preserved.”
The archbishop acknowledged the synod had failed to reach consensus on whether to make it easier for divorced and civilly remarried Catholics to receive Communion. But he said the assembly did agree to reach out to people in that “painful situation” by “looking at the way annulments are done and how accessible annulments can be, without violating, of course, the bond of marriage.”
Archbishop Kurtz urges more transparency at next family synod
By Francis X. Rocca
Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY (CNS) – Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz of Louisville, Kentucky, said the October 2015 world Synod of Bishops on the family should return to the practice of previous synods in publishing participants’ interventions, for the benefit of their discussions and the information of the outside world…
…“The initial document left people with many questions,” he said. “We didn’t want to leave the synod with that lack of clarity.”
Meeting in small working groups to discuss the text, a majority of synod fathers said it lacked references to relevant church doctrine and gave insufficient attention to families whose lives exemplify that teaching.
Archbishop Kurtz said his own efforts were aimed at producing a final report “grounded in sacred Scripture and in the tradition of the church in which the teachings of Jesus, of course, are preserved.”
The archbishop acknowledged the synod had failed to reach consensus on whether to make it easier for divorced and civilly remarried Catholics to receive Communion. But he said the assembly did agree to reach out to people in that “painful situation” by “looking at the way annulments are done and how accessible annulments can be, without violating, of course, the bond of marriage.”
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clem456
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But not so much with the issues the synod is addressing.
Most of Christ’s direct challenges are aimed at hypocrisy, rigidity, false religiosity, overzealousness.
A good pastoral approach is to have a working relationship before communicating the truth.
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Brendan
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For one of the issues, that of divorce and attempts at re-marriage., he clearly called that adultery.
Which is what Seraphim object to in the first place ( post 14)
That is the language that Christ used to describe such circumstances, therefore, the Church should as well.
Doing so is following the pastoral model of Christ Himself.
FYI, He also referred, in the same passage, to those who sought such a remarriage as 'hard hearted",
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