Amen.
Here’s the rub…The bishops are not officials elected by the Catholic populace, they are selected by the Holy See. There is no sense making their comments, in execution of Church business, fodder for the laity to make uncharitable statements (and, unfortunately, we have seen some of this on CAF causing removal of posts and entire threads) about the righteousness of the bishops.
The last line of the story was also telling:
“On the other hand, media coverage of the synod, he said, tended to be a little “unbalanced” because it focused on just two topics: Communion for the remarried and homosexuality.”
In fairness to the media, both secular and non-secular, the reason for this limited focus is because they were targeting the interest and the knowledge level of their constituency…far too many, if not the vast majority of even Catholics, were either ignorant of the entire scope of the Synod, or didn’t see the other myriad, important issues before the Synod as important.
Peace and all good!
