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Bishops, priests challenge Amazon Synod working doc for ‘contradicting’ Catholic faith ROME, October 1, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) — In view of the upcoming Amazonian Synod, an international group of Catholic prelates, priests and laity, who have chosen to remain anonymous due to a “climate of intimidation” in the Church, today addressed a brief statement to Pope Francis and the synod fathers identifying four areas of the working document which they say are “contradictory” to the Catholic faith. The Oct. 1 statement (see below), issued by a group which calls itself the Coetus Internationalis Patrum Working Group (International Group of Fathers), states:  We, numerous bishops, priests,...

It’s like this:There is no hell; unsaved souls are simply annihilated. God made you”gay”, thus the all good God makes souls to commit mortal sin, or else sodomy is not a sin. Persons living in notorious adulterous relationships are sometimes doing the best God can expect from them in concrete circumstances and sometimes they should be allowed to commit sacrilege by receiving Holy Communion. These are all positions attributed to Francis. The first two are alleged to be spoken by Francis himself, the other is contained in a mealy-mouthed footnote in an ostensibly magisterial document. These are all positions...