Austrian cardinal sees new synod procedures as ‘huge step forward’
October 13, 2015
Cardinal Christoph Schönborn of Vienna described the Synod of Bishops’ new procedures, in which the working document is discussed in small groups, as a “huge step forward.”
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“The feeling of frustration that I experienced at former synods has -- as far as I could see -- completely disappeared this time,” he added.
“Schönborn said the two losers at the synod would be those who insisted on ‘all-or-nothing’ and those who were in favor of ‘everything goes,’” according to the National Catholic Reporter.
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Posted by: TheJournalist64 -
Oct. 13, 2015 7:41 PM ET USA
Hearing that from somebody like that is a bit scary. Come Holy Ghost!
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Posted by: Jason C. -
Oct. 13, 2015 10:50 AM ET USA
But only one of those two outcomes--"those who insisted on ‘all-or-nothing’ and those who were in favor of ‘everything goes,'"--was ever possible. The "everything goes" straw man is not the incrementalist way favored by the Modernists; rather, their desired approach is a gradual weakening of revelation by changing PRACTICES. And "all-or-nothing" is a funny way of saying "orthodox or not orthodox." So Schonborn's really saying the only loser at this synod is the orthodox.
