Archbishop Forte lists 5 key synod issues
June 26, 2015
In remarks published in Famiglia Cristiana, Archbishop Bruno Forte discussed what he sees as the five most important issues of the upcoming Synod of Bishops on the family.
Archbishop Forte, the synod’s special secretary, said that the first key issue is “the beauty of the family, a natural society founded on marriage, the stable and fruitful union of a man and a woman.”
The second key issue is “accompaniment.”
“We want to be a Church,” he explained, that “does not hurl anathemas, but stays at the side of the people … We want to innovate the modes of proclamation, not its content.”
The third key issue, he said, includes a discussion of allowing those who have divorced and remarried outside the Church to become “godfathers or godmothers, catechists, extraordinary ministers of the Eucharist.”
The fourth is the “ecumenical and interreligious spirit”; the fifth is “the centrality of the person, which also leads to a greater involvement of women. They must have more space in the internal decision-making processes of the Church” and “be involved in the formation of priests.”
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Posted by: Minnesota Mary -
Jun. 26, 2015 11:42 PM ET USA
You know what the big problem is with finding God parents? Most parents, who want their children baptized, can't find enough practicing Catholics in the family or among friends to take the role of God parents. So now they want to loosen it up and let anyone be a God parent. This is the direct result of rotten catechesis for the last fifty years!
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Posted by: james-w-anderson8230 -
Jun. 26, 2015 7:32 PM ET USA
Re Item 3 - This sounds like Cardinal Kasper. How can people who openly reject church teachings and live in adultery teach others how to live the faith (godparents or catechists). How can they have a public ministry at the altar when they don't meet the most basic requirement of that ministry, namely being a practicing Catholic? Re Item 4 - Women have been teaching in seminaries for years in the US. I don't know about the rest of the world.
