Australian archbishop: Synod should avoid extremes, put Church teaching in new language
October 14, 2015
Archbishop Mark Coleridge of Brisbane said that the challenge for the Synod of Bishops is to find new language with which to explain Church teaching.
In an interview with the National Catholic Reporter, the Australian prelate said that the Synod should avoid two extremes: the temptations to “abandon Church teaching” on one hand or to retreat into a “bubble of immutability on the other.” The bishops should explore the “vast middle ground” between those points, he said.
The archbishop suggested that the Synod should concluded, in effect: “OK, we we don't go to one extreme and say we're going to chuck church teaching out the window or the other extreme and say we're going to do nothing.'”
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