Bishop Barron in ‘frank disagreement’ with Synod statement on moral teaching
November 27, 2023
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CWN Editor's Note: Bishop Robert Barron of Winona–Rochester, Minnesota has said that he is in “frank disagreement” with portions of the final statement from the Synod on Synodality regarding the development of Catholic moral teaching.
Bishop Barron, a noted theologian who was a delegate to the October meeting of the Synod, said that he rejected the notion that “advances in our scientific understanding will require a rethinking of our sexual teaching, whose categories are, apparently, inadequate to describe the complexities of human sexuality.” In his Word on Fire site, the bishop wrote: “To say that this multilayered, philosophically informed, theologically dense system is incapable of handling the subtleties of human sexuality is just absurd.”
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Posted by: feedback -
Nov. 28, 2023 9:47 AM ET USA
Good for Bishop Barron! Since doctor Tony Fauci, after a series of contradicting statements, famously announced "I am the science," it became clear that the terms "scientific" and "science" might be used as magical spells to justify all sorts of absurdities and to suppress voices of reason.
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Posted by: Randal Mandock -
Nov. 28, 2023 12:24 AM ET USA
Isn't this the same Pope who proclaimed shortly after taking office that Catholics are too obsessed with sexual morality, especially in the category of unnatural vice? For 10 years Francis' church has been fixated on just such issues. Given this reality, it's not surprising that his latest synod is likewise fixated on sins of the flesh. Of course, the weirdness is that these sins are now being excused because the victims of the pre-Francis naughty church are among the marginalized and excluded.
