What was inaccurate was
the synod document itself.
Fast forward to the final
synod document — the «Relatio Synodi» of 18 October 2014.
Pornography Incredibly, pornography was not mentioned in any of
the synod documents.
Not exact matches
The
document is Pope Francis» official response to the two major meetings of bishops he hosted at the Vatican to discuss marriage and family issues — the Extraordinary
Synod on the Family in 2014 and
Synod of the Bishops in 2015.
The
document will be used as a guideline for discussions at a
synod, a meeting of top Catholic bishops convened by Pope Francis, to be held in Rome in October.
The preparatory
document for the 2018
Synod on Young People ignores the many young Catholics today who are hungry for tradition and beauty.
In his apostolic exhortation, Pope Francis explained that he wanted «to listen to everyone and not simply those who would tell him what he would like to hear».9 This is exactly what he has done by using the
synod's preparatory
document to seek input from a broad range of the faithful.
But he responded that a
synod was good only for producing useless
documents, while the only thing we need to do is to continue our missionary efforts and to remain in a state of permanent mission.»
This will be the basis for the working
document of next year's
synod's on family.
This
synod did not vote on the propositions, but produced a final
document of syntheses.
While the individual interventions of the
synod fathers are not published, yesterday's relatio, which is merely a discussion
document, was published immediately and, I am told, even broadcast live.
This one was a parody of the five articles of the
Synod of Dort, a 17th - century
document long considered to represent the essence of John Calvin's theology.
George Weigel defends the paragraphs (84 - 86) of the
Synod report against «German spin» doctors; unfortunately, it could be said that his defense shows the weakness of the paragraphs and the
document.
The
document was sent to all member churches, asking them «to prepare an official response to this text at the highest appropriate level of authority, whether it be a council,
synod, conference, assembly or other body.»
[2] As a result, in parts the
document strains under the effort of trying to do justice to everything that was said by the many bishops present at the
Synod.
There will be one vote at the end of the
synod, to approve the final
document of recommendations, called the Relatio Synodi, which will be given to Francis.
The final report — not a magisterial
document, but expressive of the
synod's will — was published with the full approval of the Pope, and is by any measure «conservative» in nature.
It is important, says the
document, to consider «what the
Synod described as eucharistic consistency, a quality which our lives are objectively called to embody.
The
document, based on two
Synods on the issue, was eagerly awaited by the world's 1.3 bn Roman Catholics.