Inside the Vatican: Inside the Synod - for the very last time, at least in this capacity, our expert says!
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VATICAN CITY: 22nd October 2005 -- And so we come to the end of the Eleventh Synod of Bishops, during which we celebrated the 40th year of this particular instrument of the Church’s Magisterium. We have considered The Eucharist: The Source and
This week has seen a change in method. Much of the first two weeks was given to the response of the Bishops to the Instrumentum Laboris and the reflection of Cardinal Angelo Scola upon that document. Over 230 Bishops spoke. There was a lot of repetition, but each one had his chance to reflect on some aspect of the Eucharistic life of the Church. Their interventions were followed by further prepared reflections from invited members of Churches not in communion with
This was an extremely disappointing session. There is nothing “magisterial” about the message (Nuntius). It is a word of enthusiasm and hope to the world at large about the work of the Synod. One after the other, the Curial Cardinals rose and asked that it be changed. It was too “open,” there was too much “hope,” and it did not reflect the tradition of the Church. I will share two comments interventions that disturbed me a great deal. "We must not speak of the 'suffering' of those who are divorced and remarried. Such people are in that situation because of their own ill-willed rejection of the teaching of the Church". "We should not speak of the suffering of the AIDS victims in
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