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In what is now being seen as a highly significant intervention at the synod on the family on October 6, Pope Francis warned the synod fathers against giving in to “the hermeneutic of conspiracy”– which in English would be called “the conspiracy theory”—which, he said, “is sociologically weak and spiritually unhelpful.” He asked them instead to engage in “a profound discernment to seek to understand what the Lord wants of his Church.”
His important statement was not mentioned at the Vatican press briefing that day, but it was revealed later in a Twitter message by Father Antonio Spadaro S.J, a synod father appointed by the pope. It has also been confirmed by several other sources, and at the press briefing, Oct 7.
Francis’ words take on particular significance in the light of some of the serious challenges that he is facing at this synod, some of which I mentioned in my last report, among them the allegation (explict or implicit) that the synod under his leadership is somehow putting at risk the church’s traditional teaching on marriage and the family, and the allegation that the synod’s new methodology, which he approved, is more favorable to those who want greater openness in the church’s pastoral approach in this whole area.
americamagazine.org/content/dispatches/pope-synod-fathers-dont-give-conspiracy-theory
His important statement was not mentioned at the Vatican press briefing that day, but it was revealed later in a Twitter message by Father Antonio Spadaro S.J, a synod father appointed by the pope. It has also been confirmed by several other sources, and at the press briefing, Oct 7.
Francis’ words take on particular significance in the light of some of the serious challenges that he is facing at this synod, some of which I mentioned in my last report, among them the allegation (explict or implicit) that the synod under his leadership is somehow putting at risk the church’s traditional teaching on marriage and the family, and the allegation that the synod’s new methodology, which he approved, is more favorable to those who want greater openness in the church’s pastoral approach in this whole area.
americamagazine.org/content/dispatches/pope-synod-fathers-dont-give-conspiracy-theory