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Synod diary: Blessed endings and fractious beginnings


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Ed Morrissey

October 19, 2014

 

VATICAN CITY – The end of the fortnight for the Extraordinary Synod on the Family ended on a blessed note today … literally. Pope Francis celebrated Mass in St. Peter’s Square to beatify Pope Paul VI, author of Humanae Vitae and the shepherd for most of the Second Vatican Council. The show of episcopal unity behind Catholic tradition provided a contrast to the fractious debate inside and outside of the synod hall over Catholic teachings on the family and pastoral outreach in a changing world. Francis used the homily for today’s Mass to put the debate in context and to call for healing.

 

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After a long day yesterday, Pope Francis no doubt felt the need to remind the congregation of the reason for calling the synod in the first place, a decision which came under question yesterday with the release of the relatio finalis. Most of the document easily passed the two-thirds threshold for adoption, but the passages from the draft relatio that created the most controversy and the most media interest didn’t make the cut. The English translation has not been published, but even from my own poor grasp of the Italian, it was clear that the passages relating to homosexuality got edited to remove the most provocative language. Even with those removed, the paragraphs didn’t get the supermajority required for them to be an official part of the relatio, and neither did the passages regarding access to the Eucharist for divorced and civilly remarried Catholics. Also absent were references to a “law of graduality,” which critics charged would lead to confusion over graduality of the application of doctrine rather than graduality in formation.

 

Needless to say, this generated some rather pointed commentary from the media. “Pope suffers setback as proposals for wider acceptance of gay people fail to win two-thirds majority at synod,” read the BBC’s tweet. One Italian journalist in the briefing room declared, “The progressives lost,” although I was not entirely clear on whether he approved or lamented that conclusion. A few of the reporters from the secular media expressed disgust or disappointment in the immediate aftermath of the briefing last evening, and some of that ended up in their reports. CBS reported that the church had “scrapped” its welcoming language to gays and lesbians (which ignored the several declarations by bishops of welcome), and that the minority vote may have been the progressives protesting against the changed language:

 

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Catholic synod: Pope Francis setback on gay policy

18 October 2014

 

Pope Francis has suffered a setback as proposals for wider acceptance of gay people failed to win a two-thirds majority at a Catholic Church synod.

 

A draft report issued halfway through the meeting had called for greater openness towards homosexuals and divorced Catholics who have remarried.

 

But those paragraphs were not approved, and were stripped from the final text.

 

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They're still trying to make the Pope into something he is not.....ie a Progressive in tune with modern secular progressives.

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