Posted on 10/18/2018 11:41:49 AM PDT by ebb tide
Ambiguity and confusion over Catholic teaching is neither charitable nor desired by young people who instead want the Church to form them in the truth of Christ, a group of young Australians has told the Youth Synod.
In an Oct. 12 letter addressed to the Synod Fathers and all the assembly's participants (see full text below), 217 Australian university students and young professionals stress that young people do not want to shape the Church before the Church can form us, and that they are yearning for a reliable moral compass.
(Excerpt) Read more at ncregister.com ...
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Pope Francis told them they are too rigid and scolded them, I'm sure. There is no place for moral compasses in a church!
Deliberately unclear words are, ironically, relied on and repeated with rigidity. The Church should not discourage young people following its rules in love, nor its priests from teaching them.
Two can play Bergoglio's word game.
As yesterday’s Mass readings said: “Now the works of the flesh are obvious: immorality, impurity, licentiousness, idolatry, sorcery, hatreds, rivalry, jealousy,
outbursts of fury, acts of selfishness,
dissensions, factions, occasions of envy,
drinking bouts, orgies, and the like.
I warn you, as I warned you before,
that those who do such things will not inherit the Kingdom of God.” Galatians 5:18-25. Does this reading describe the Dictator Pope? I think so.
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