Final synod document strongly backs Church teaching, beauty of family life

[johnnyc176]

ewtnnews.com/catholic-news/Vatican.php?id=12826

With a two-thirds majority vote, the more than 200 bishops gathered for the Vatican’s synod on the family upheld Church teaching on hot-button issues such as homosexuality and communion for divorced and remarried persons.

“No doctrinal developments, no doctrinal surprises, no doctrinal backflips. No changes in praxis or discipline,” but rather a “beautiful commendation of large families and of the witness of happily married spouses and their children as agents of evangelization.” - Cardinal Pell

 

[I_trust]

“The logic of integration is the key to their pastoral accompaniment,” paragraph 84 said, explaining that their involvement in the Church “can be expressed in different ecclesial services.”

Synod fathers emphasized a process of careful discernment in considering which of the areas of exclusion in the liturgy, pastoral, educational and institutional framework of the Church can be done away with for divorced and remarried Catholics.

In some countries, for example, divorced and remarried persons are not only asked to abstain from Communion, but also from teaching catechesis and from being godparents.
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Pastoral discernment and accompaniment of such individuals must direct them “to the awareness of their situation before God.”

In paragraph 86, it was noted that consulting with a priest helps form a correct judgement “on what hinders the possibility of full participation in the life of the Church and on the steps that can foster it and make it grow.”

It does not sound anything like what the main stream media is reporting.

It reiterated that “every person, independently of their sexual tendency, must be respected in their dignity and welcomed with respect,” but clarified that “there is no foundation whatsoever to assimilate or establish analogies, even remotely, between homosexual unions and God’s design for marriage and the family.”

Synod fathers called ideological colonization in this regard “unacceptable in every case,” as well as the pressure local Churches often face to succumb to the secular push allowing for gay “marriage.”

The final document also backed Church teaching on life issues, such as abortion and contraception.

Very clear.

So the sky is not falling. Even so, Pope Francis can reject the whole thing if he wants.

 

[I_trust]

cruxnow.com/church/2015/10/24/divorcedremarried-catholics-section-86/

1. The path of accompaniment and discernment orients these faithful to an awareness in conscience of their situation before God. Conversation with the priest, in the internal forum, contributes to the formation of a correct judgment** on what places an obstacle to the possibility of a fuller participation in the life of the Church** and on the steps that can favor that participation and make it grow. Given that there is no graduality in the law itself (Familiaris Consortio, 34), this discernment can never prescind from the demands of truth and of charity of the Gospel proposed by the Church. So that this happens, the necessary conditions of humility, discretion, and love for the Church and its teaching, in a sincere search for the will of God and in the desire to reach a more perfect response to it, must be guaranteed.

 

[I_trust]

reference to FAMILIARIS CONSORTIO:
w2.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/apost_exhortations/documents/hf_jp-ii_exh_19811122_familiaris-consortio.html

They cannot however look on the law as merely an ideal to be achieved in the future: they must consider it as a command of Christ the Lord to overcome difficulties with constancy. "And so what is known as ‘the law of gradualness’ or step-by-step advance cannot be identified with ‘gradualness of the law,’ as if there were different degrees or forms of precept in God’s law for different individuals and situations.

 

[powerofk]

It does not sound anything like what the main stream media is reporting.

Very clear.

So the sky is not falling. Even so, Pope Francis can reject the whole thing if he wants.

Right. Honestly, we need to stop paying attention to the mainstream media when it comes to issues dealing with the Catholic Church. Why? Because the mainstream media sees the world through an Americanist lens - on a strict left-right spectrum, with a worldview in which everything is up for debate and can be changed by majority vote (and in which courts can overrule majority vote by having a majority of the court bench vote for something). This may be the way most Protestant denominations work (especially low church denominations), but it’s not the way the Catholic Church works. Our doctrines are unchangeable, and our disciplines, though changeable, are generally so ingrained into our thought processes that they also are generally very difficult to change. So it’s no surprise that the synod fathers agreed to uphold Church doctrine - it is unchangable.

By the same token, the most outspoken (and the most likely to turn to the media to advance their narrative) were going to be those that object to certain Church teachings.

 

[GLam8833]

The Synod on the Family is completed,
the Holy Spirit has spoken and the Laws
of the Church UPHELD! Praise the Lord
of the Church, and her divine & chaste
spouse Jesus Christ!

 

[JurisPrudens]

Te Deum laudamus…