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ROME – As the Oct. 4-25 Synod of Bishops enters what’s expected to be a rough-and-tumble final week, taking up contentious issues such as “new language” on homosexuality and allowing divorced and civilly remarried Catholics to receive Communion, Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo of Galveston-Houston says two things seem clear.
One is that the 13 small working groups in which bishops participate are generating a great deal of (name removed by moderator)ut, reflecting what different voices are saying. The other, he said, is that no one seems quite sure what’s going to become of it.
“It all seems to be going into this huge blender in the sky,” DiNardo laughingly told Crux on Sunday.
He said the 10 bishops who make up a drafting committee for the synod’s final document — a group that includes Cardinal Donald Wuerl of Washington, DC — will have to find a way to take the small group suggestions (technically called modi) and weave them into a document that honestly reflects the synod’s thinking.
That document is supposed to be based on a working text distributed at the beginning called the Instrumentum Laboris. DiNardo said it’s been slow going slogging through it — leading, he said, to the insider joke that it’s actually the Instrumentum “laborious.”
cruxnow.com/church/2015/10/19/dinardo-says-synod-endgame-rests-on-huge-blender-in-the-sky/
One is that the 13 small working groups in which bishops participate are generating a great deal of (name removed by moderator)ut, reflecting what different voices are saying. The other, he said, is that no one seems quite sure what’s going to become of it.
“It all seems to be going into this huge blender in the sky,” DiNardo laughingly told Crux on Sunday.
He said the 10 bishops who make up a drafting committee for the synod’s final document — a group that includes Cardinal Donald Wuerl of Washington, DC — will have to find a way to take the small group suggestions (technically called modi) and weave them into a document that honestly reflects the synod’s thinking.
That document is supposed to be based on a working text distributed at the beginning called the Instrumentum Laboris. DiNardo said it’s been slow going slogging through it — leading, he said, to the insider joke that it’s actually the Instrumentum “laborious.”
cruxnow.com/church/2015/10/19/dinardo-says-synod-endgame-rests-on-huge-blender-in-the-sky/