18. maj 2015 -
But even if the real issue is acknowledged, “what can the upcoming synod do about it? How can the synod fathers, in a two-week session, realistically address a problem that has been festering since 1968?”
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Phyllis Zagano: Aflivning af kristendommen
9. april 2015 -
Note to Cardinal Müller: Women are no longer chattel in the developed world. Women are independent human beings made in the image and likeness of God.
Read MoreArchbishop Cupich: Our contribution to the Synod of October 2015
6. aprill 2015 -
While the Synod Office in Rome prepared documentation for the consultation, it became clear that a more accessible approach was needed. To that end, we developed the following five questions to capture the synod’s major and essential concerns:
Read MoreWSJ: Pope Francis and the New Rome
6. april 2015 -
Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York. “Now we have a pope who says, ‘Look, we just had five decades of internal debates and controversy about the meaning of Vatican II, and now it’s time to do it.’ And that’s what he’s doing.”
Read MoreCommonweal Magazine: A Listening Church
26. jan. 2015 -
"It’s true that three of the paragraphs [about divorce and gay people] did not get two-thirds majority support, but they got more than a majority. That’s what’s new. That’s the story."
Read MoreRome Wants Reality, Not "Doctrine" – The Synod's Second Half Begins
29. dec. 2014 -
"Different bishops had different approaches, but we will all move on together," the Pope said. "I am not afraid."
Against this backdrop, below is the Synod Secretariat's complete English translation of the new questionnaire.
Read MoreFr. James Martin SJ: A great deal of important news from the Vatican this morning.
9. dec. 2014 -
"It's notable that the Vatican is asking bishops to collect input from Catholics "at all levels" and, even more notably, asks bishops to "avoid, in their responses...."
Read MorePater Lombardi: "Man må have troens briller på for at kunne læse Synoden"
26. okt. 2014 -
P Lombardi giver udtryk for sin overbevisning om at den kommende refleksion i lokalkirkerne kommer til at blive "dybtgående, effektiv, virkelig velformuleret" og præget af "en meget bred fælles proces" med henblik på synoden i oktober 2015.
Read MoreNewsweek: The Crisis That Changed Pope Francis
25. okt. 2014 -
"But Francis does not want to be a pastoral autocrat in the way that previous popes have been philosophical or theological dictators"
Read MorePå Dansk: Pave Frans - Tale ved afslutningen af bispesynoden i oktober 2014
dagen.se: ”Omgifta är rika världens problematik”
22. okt. 2014 -
Även många katoliker ser kyrkan genom massmedierapporteringen som gärna använder partibeteckningar för att definiera den. Med dessa kan inte användas här
Read MoreDavid Gibson: 7 lessons from the Vatican’s wild and crazy Synod on the Family
Fr. James Martin, SJ: The Synod...is not over
20. okt. 2014 -
Pope Francis has more or less unleashed a torrent of openness among the world's bishops. Topics that were previously taboo were spoken about freely. Here are some important roundups in the wake of the conclusion of the first session of the Synod on the Family.
Read MoreAusten Ivereigh: Pope Francis’s healing, loving revolution is unstoppable
19. okt. 2014 -
Most of us live in the gap between who we are and who we are called to be; being a Catholic isn’t an all-or-nothing proposition.
Read MoreJohn Thavis: A few more thoughts on a synod that hasn't ended
19. okt. 2014 -
The pope sees this as the start of a process. The first phase is over, and some will be disappointed that the synod pulled back on the language of welcome. But this was not the day the music died. The ideas and proposals launched at this synod will be coming back.
Read MoreFr. James Martin, SJ: Five Things the Synod Just Did
19. okt. 2014 -
But in the end one person makes the decisions, and in this case it’s the Pope. At one point during his concluding speech to the bishops he said, playfully, “I am here and I’m the pope!”
Or as we say in the Jesuits, when it comes to the superior it’s: “You discern, we discern, but I decide.”
Read MoreJohn Thavis: Synod ends on a cautious note; Pope Francis says church must open its doors
18. okt. 2014 -
Among the temptations, he said, were those of a “hostile rigidity” that wanted to close the church inside the letter of the law, expressed today by so-called “traditionalists.” He also warned against a false charity by so-called “liberals and progressives,” as well as the risk of adapting too easily to the spirit of the world.
Read MoreGrant Gallicho: Synod day 14 presser the second: that's a wrap.
18. okt. 2014 -
When the synod reconvenes, it won't be quite the same. Some who participated in this year's meeting won't be back (I'm thinking of papal critic Cardinal Raymond Burke). And Francis will likely select new cardinals come February.
Read MoreGrant Gallicho: Synod day 13 presser: almost there
17. okt. 2014 -
For example, Marx noted that half of Catholic marriages in Germany are not sacramental because one of the partners is not baptized.
Read MoreThomas Reese: English-speaking bishops call for major changes in synod report
17. okt. 2014 -
We do know that Cardinal Raymond Burke was the moderator (chair) and Archbishop John Dew was the relator (secretary) of Group A. Cardinal Wilfrid Napier was moderator of Group B and Archbishop Diarmuid Martin was relator. And Group C had as moderator Archbishop Joseph Kurtz with Archbishop Stephen Brislin as relator.
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