Friday, January 30, 2015

Synod chief: "Pope Francis approved family synod’s controversial mid-term report before publication"

For the unhappy record, LifeSiteNews reports:
ROME, January 29, 2015 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The lead organizer of the Vatican’s Synod on the Family has revealed that Pope Francis approved the controversial mid-term report from the meeting before it was published. Until now, Pope Francis’ role in the document’s publication has been left to conjecture.
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Related: "As everyone knew, Pope approved most shocking document in the History of the Church of Rome" (RC, January 30, 2015)


Update: I just received from a courrier the following missive from correspondent Guy Noir, with the words, "File under 'THINGS AS THEY REALLY ARE'":
I know, I know. As Mark Shea, Randy Reno, Fr. Dwight, and a phalanx of hopeful witnesses unceasingly reassure us, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StTqXEQ2l-Y.

But I think immediately of certain particular "separated brethren," as we have so recently witnessed them living through the first throes of such a similar evolution. The Episcopalians in their Book of Common Prayer have a collect the lines of which that Catholic Crowd at Patheos might now want to heed as they "read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest" this:

http://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2015/01/for-record-as-everyone-knew-pope.html#more

“The Pope said: ‘These three points received an absolute majority. They were therefore not rejected with a ‘no,’ as they received more than 50 percent approval. They are therefore issues that still need to be developed. We as a Church want a consensus. These texts can be modified, that’s clear. Once there has been further reflection, they can be modified.”

2 comments:

Son of Ya'Kov said...

Yet the Pope is all over the place condemning gay marriage & the media is reporting it.

http://www.crisismagazine.com/2015/pope-francis-prepares-shock-liberals-sex-marriage


What is he up too?

Mick Jagger Gathers No Mosque said...

Long ago the methods and manners of the modernists were described

So, there are examples of continuity after all