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Synod’s indicator swings toward a rewrite of midterm relatio
Vatican City, Oct 15, 2014 / 03:21 pm (EWTN News/CNA)
As the synod fathers’ small groups continue to meet, it seems increasingly clear that the Synod of Bishops’ concluding document, the ‘relatio synodi’, will be substantially different than the midterm relatio which was released Monday.
The relatio synodi is called to mirror the concerns and proposals raised during the small group discussions this week, in which bishops have been grouped according to language.
After the issuance of the midterm report, the synod fathers raised their concern in 41 free interventions, which highlighted the absence of the word sin, the absence of the Gospel of Family, and some perhaps naive sentences of the document which could be subject to misinterpretation.
“The issue at stake is whether the Catholic Church is going to shape the world with its teaching, the truth it reveals, or if it is going to be shaped by the world,” Archbishop Stanislaw Gadecki of Poznan, who is president of the Polish bishops’ conference, shared with EWTN News Oct. 15.
Archbishop Zbignev Stankevics of Riga, the Latvian capital, echoed Archbishop Gadecki’s words in an Oct. 14 interview with Vatican Radio.
“Currently, the family is under a very strong ideological attack. The main task of the synod fathers is not to make a poorly-defined opening, but to apply, once again for today’s situation, the teaching of the Church,” Archbishop Stankevics said.
He then added that “certainly, we should meet the contemporary challenges as much as is possible; but without losing our Catholic identity, and without renouncing the truth about marriage.”
Synod’s indicator swings toward a rewrite of midterm relatio
Vatican City, Oct 15, 2014 / 03:21 pm (EWTN News/CNA)
As the synod fathers’ small groups continue to meet, it seems increasingly clear that the Synod of Bishops’ concluding document, the ‘relatio synodi’, will be substantially different than the midterm relatio which was released Monday.
The relatio synodi is called to mirror the concerns and proposals raised during the small group discussions this week, in which bishops have been grouped according to language.
After the issuance of the midterm report, the synod fathers raised their concern in 41 free interventions, which highlighted the absence of the word sin, the absence of the Gospel of Family, and some perhaps naive sentences of the document which could be subject to misinterpretation.
“The issue at stake is whether the Catholic Church is going to shape the world with its teaching, the truth it reveals, or if it is going to be shaped by the world,” Archbishop Stanislaw Gadecki of Poznan, who is president of the Polish bishops’ conference, shared with EWTN News Oct. 15.
Archbishop Zbignev Stankevics of Riga, the Latvian capital, echoed Archbishop Gadecki’s words in an Oct. 14 interview with Vatican Radio.
“Currently, the family is under a very strong ideological attack. The main task of the synod fathers is not to make a poorly-defined opening, but to apply, once again for today’s situation, the teaching of the Church,” Archbishop Stankevics said.
He then added that “certainly, we should meet the contemporary challenges as much as is possible; but without losing our Catholic identity, and without renouncing the truth about marriage.”
