Posted on 10/19/2014 10:20:05 AM PDT by marshmallow
Vatican City, Oct 18, 2014 / 04:15 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Pope Francis' address at the conclusion of the Synod on the Family, delivered Saturday, was responded to with a four-minute standing ovation on the part of the bishops attending the Vatican meeting.
In the Oct. 18 speech, the Pope thanked the bishops for their efforts, and noted the various temptations that can arise in such a synod setting. He encouraged the bishops to live in the tension, saying that “personally I would be very worried and saddened if it were not for these temptations and these animated discussions; this movement of the spirits, as St Ignatius called it (Spiritual Exercises, 6), if all were in a state of agreement, or silent in a false and quietist peace.”
“Instead, I have seen and I have heard – with joy and appreciation – speeches and interventions full of faith, of pastoral and doctrinal zeal, of wisdom, of frankness and of courage: and of parrhesia. And I have felt that what was set before our eyes was the good of the Church, of families, and the 'supreme law,' the 'good of souls; (cf. Can. 1752).”
In conclusion, looking forward to the 2015 synod, which will also be on the family, Pope Francis said, “now we still have one year to mature, with true spiritual discernment, the proposed ideas and to find concrete solutions to so many difficulties and innumerable challenges that families must confront; to give answers to the many discouragements that surround and suffocate families.”
Please find below the full text of Pope Francis' address, according to the provisional translation provided by Vatican Radio:
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One which was entirely undeserved given his perfidious role in this synod but after one bishop rose to his feet applauding, who would have had the courage to remain seated and make the split even more manifest or risk the wrath of the vindictive +Francis? A theatrical show of unity which is now an obvious facade.
+Francis no doubt lapped it up and let it go on for four minutes in true "El Lider Maximo" style. Reminiscent of the sycophantic displays of adulation often given to political dictators at party congresses.
Where was his Humility™ ?
It was a divisive, condescending speech, on top of that - and they published the Relatio as originally written.
Oh wait...that was a trademark symbol.
my bad.
He said...
Kicks the can down the road. But eh, a year is normal enough in this sort of context, I take it.
Families surrounded and suffocated though...that sounds like the toe is in the door, to keep it propped open.
Nightmares can come creeping in on theologians (and lead to sleepless nights) with a door left ajar like that....
What is needed now is a good OLD FASHIONED Jesuit double-agent, working for the Burkes (conservative bishops) of the realm?
You know...just to hear what the "other side" is up to word-play scheming, the better to head them off at the pass. Next year.
Glad it's not my job to figure it all out.
Pray for them?
The world really doesn't need another Unitarian Universalist, First Episcopal of Everybody church.
Just look at all the trouble that caused outside of the RCC. The Anglicans became multi-fractured over issues like this.
Frances needs to follow Benedict’s example and retire.
I was surprised how many other Catholics had a big problem with Pope Benedict retiring. Yes, the ideal is to be Pope for the rest of your life, but if health problems impede one’s full and proper spreading of The Word, then why not allow another servant to the cause an opportunity to do so? The world is more populated than it has ever been, and cannot be placed ‘on hold’ for the next two or three decades as we stand by and watch a sick Pontiff slowly withdraw from society. We need active leadership now more than ever.
This is ridiculous. He is casting the "families" (Marxist term for unmarried cohabitors and gay couples) as passive victims of the same human life that God has provided to all mankind from the days of Eden. The challenges come from Satan and Satan works through the environment. So is Francis saying that a synod can change the secular world to make things easier for the poor passive Christians? No, Christians must put on the whole armor of God, and run the race to the end.
Christians must be strong in their faith and not waver from the truth, such as that a man is always a male with male DNA even if he thinks he'd rather be a woman -- no; he is a man. And churches need to teach and preach the centrality of the natural biological family, the sacramental nature of marriage, and the holiness of sexual expression within marriage. Children need to know they are the products of a courageous faith in the Lord by parents who would die for them, and would die to self to help them, not a selfish and sentimental lust mixed with false liberation theology and secular entitlement politics.
I can say that even though I'm not a Roman Catholic.
It's like -- situation normal, for me. ;^')
So you believe that the function of a pope is to micromanage things on a daily basis because Church doctrine should be a “living document?
"Who turning, said to Peter: Go behind me, Satan, thou art a scandal unto me: because thou savourest not the things that are of God, but the things that are of men. Then Jesus said to his disciples: If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. For he that will save his life, shall lose it: and he that shall lose his life for my sake, shall find it."
Matthew 16: 23-25
The current Peter seems to be engaged in a deliberate campaign to eject the Cross by undermining the disciplines of the Church.
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