I prescribe a penitential path to sacrilege precisely in these cases?
John Vennari has the scoop on the latest Synod abomination – the just-released compilation of a worldwide ‘listening’ crusade, the Instrumentum Laboris. Doesn’t that just mean ‘Working Tool?’
If you have to remind everybody that you’re busy working with tools, you’re not really getting anything done, are you?
And after a second round of global consultation, here it is – at Roman Noon, the instrumentum laboris (baseline text) for October’s climactic Synod on the Family was released… for now, however – much like last year’s first volume – the full sequel is only available in Italian.
Stacking out at 147 paragraphs – some 20,000 words – the text is arranged around three pillars: the challenges families face, the “discernment of the family’s vocation,” and “the mission of the family today,” each of them slated to take up a week of the discussions at the 4-25 October assembly.
Among other highlights, the final portion of the framework deals with the proposed changes of practice cited by their supporters as necessary for the church to better respond to families in challenging situations amid current pastoral practice.
On the assembly’s most hot-button issue of all, the instrumentum speaks of a “common accord” among the world’s bishops toward “eventual access” to the sacraments for divorced and civilly remarried couples, but only following “an itinerary of reconciliation or a penitential path under the authority of the [diocesan] bishop,” and only “in situations of irreversible cohabitation.”
If I remember last October, that ‘accord’ wasn’t all that common; and just like gay sex habits, if ‘cohabiting situations’ were irreversible, they wouldn’t be sins. Who do these irreversible FrancisVatican fools think we are, and how many could find their way down a ‘penitential path?’
The text cautions that the proposal is only envisioned “in some particular situations, and according to well-precise conditions,” citing the interest of children born in a second union.
Well, I’m satisfied. They’ve promised to be precise, like the gears of a Porsche flying down the Autobahn to Hell.
On a related front, ample treatment was given to the state of marriage tribunals, with calls for a “decentralization” of the annulment courts and the floating of the “relevance of the personal faith” of spouses in terms of their understanding of the marital bond as a means for declaring the nullity of a marriage.
We could see that one coming. His Holiness has been inclined to ramble about the impossibility of making an informed and binding marriage vow these days. Maybe if we have online auto-annulments then the Sensus Fidei will really start to understand marriage is forever! Ever-forward and pedal to the metal.
In particular, the latter point echoes a longstanding line of the Pope’s – having quoted the impression of his predecessor in Buenos Aires, the late Cardinal Antonio Quarracino, that “half” of failed Catholic marriages there “are null” solely on the grounds of unformed faith, a papal commission formed quietly by Francis last summer is studying possible changes to the annulment process independent of the Synod itself. No timeline is set for its work.
Elsewhere, three paragraphs were devoted to pastoral ministry to families “having within them a person of homosexual orientation.” While reaffirming the 2003 CDF declaration that “there exists no foundation whatsoever to integrate or compare, not even remotely, homosexual unions and the design of God for the family,” the text urges that “independent of their sexual tendency,” gays “be respected in their dignity and welcomed with sensibility and delicateness, whether in the church or society.”
Haven’t most self-professed gay people already been subjected to enough ‘tenderness,’ so much so that they imagine an outsized ‘dignity’ in their rejection of marriage and true parenthood?
Perhaps most boldly – reflecting a key emphasis of one of the gathering’s three presidents, Cardinal Chito Tagle of Manila – the text emphasizes that “The Christian message must be announced in a language that sustains hope.
Watch out for these liberals like Cardinal Tagle, the future Pope of Hope and FrancisMercy. They’re always ‘bold’ and courageous.
Stuff your evil old language, Catholic! We’ll tell you what to say.
We cannot trust what is coming from Rome these days. But we must cling to Our Lord and Our Lady and the age-old truths taught by Holy Mother Church that no ‘progressive’ (heretic) can change.
Lord, please deliver us from unholy shepherds.
First of all the family unit has been in existence long before there was a Vatican, or Catholic religion, or Jewish religion. Where does this nonsense as to what constitutes a family come from. My own reasoning is that it comes from the halls instruction by Sociology Professors in Modern Universities who work more along the guidelines of Karl Marx and Thomas Malthus than referenced by the Old and New Testament and Catholic historical doctrines.
Second, if the Catholic Church has to go outside of the realm of Catholic and Jewish history and doctrine to find the meaning and purpose of the family and how it should still remain the corner stone of what constitutes community, versus the opposite Sociological view that it takes a village to raise a child theory, then the Catholic Church is walking into strange and forbidden area of mankind’s history to search for augmentations to apparently make adjustments for mankind’s aberrant sexual lifestyles.
The purpose of this augmentation is because of Vatican II’s theory that the church has to continue to evolve liken to the notions of Teilhard de Chardin who was pronounced a heretic in 1925. Father General, Wlodimir Ledóchowski, S.J., ordered Father Teilhard de Chardin, S.J. to leave his teaching position in France and to sign a statement withdrawing his controversial statements regarding the Doctrine of Original Sin. This was back in 1925. Father Teilhard de Chardin, S.J., the evolutionist, pantheist, and Modernist Heretic, decided against leaving the Jesuit Order. Therefore, he signed the statement and left for China.
This turned out to be only the first of a number of ecclesiastical condemnations by certain ecclesiastical officials against Teilhard de Chardin.The teachings and writings of the evolutionist, pantheist, automatically excommunicated Modernist Heretic and NEW Theology Theologian, Teilhard de Chardin, were condemned as a perversion of the Roman Catholic Faith by noted Roman Catholics who included Jacques Maritain and Dietrich von Hildebrand