Pope says synod used ‘parliamentary logic’ when debating married priests

[jack63]

Interesting article about how Pope Francis viewed the debate about married priests in the Amazon.

Pope says synod used ‘parliamentary logic’ when debating married priests | Crux

From the article

“There was a discussion…a rich discussion…a well-founded discussion, but no discernment, which is something other than arriving at a good and justified consent or relative majorities,” he wrote.

“We must understand that the Synod is more than a Parliament; and in this specific case [the synod]
could not escape this dynamic,” Francis wrote. “On this subject there was a rich, productive and even necessary Parliament; but no more than that. For me this was decisive in the final discernment, when I thought about how to do the Exhortation.”

Francis argues that “one of the riches” of the synodal pedagogy is leaving this parliamentary logic to “learn to listen, in community, to what the Spirit says to the Church.”

Thoughts? Comments?

 

[brown_bear]

It seems that some members of the Synod follow this “parliamentary logic”, but certainly many others are open to the discernment that comes from the Holy Spirit and, in any case, the Pope is a guarantee that this true discernment takes over, as it was.

 

[Maximian]

The Pope has grown up in a country where until quite recently a parliament is a talking shop which takes no decisions.

Personally I don’t see the advantage in having a synod discuss a subject which is closed. It just raises the temperature to no purpose.

 

[jack63]

Certainly my views changed as I’ve debated here on CAF. I came in a few years ago thinking priests should be allowed to marry as soon as possible.

My thinking now is more along the lines that it would be a good thing to ordain carefully considered married men to the priesthood, and this change should occur slowly taking precautions not to mess up the diaconate, which I believe is a beautiful and unique service.

a subject which is closed.

Married priests are hardly a closed subject, nor did this synod close the subject.