I have a huge concern that many of Synod Fathers’ are airing views in direct opposition to my understanding of the Church’s teachings.
Thankfully there is another year to go before we hear anything official from the Church.
The interim Synod document (Relatio Post Disceptationem) states that “Homosexuals have gifts and qualities to offer to the Christian community.”
And in the next paragraph, “Are our communities capable of providing [comfort], accepting and valuing their sexual orientation?”
To say because of their disorder homosexuals have something special to offer God’s Church and add to Christ’s teaching is a blasphemy.
Minding our language
Archbishop Diarmuid Martin of Dublin said the Church can’t simply repeat what was said 20 years ago.
I ask, why not?
Sure you can change the language but as far as I know the Church has always taught that God is a God of love and loves all of humanity with a passion that we cannot begin to understand, all are welcome and He longs for all people to be with Him in Heaven.
When God sent his Son to earth it was not to change or loosen His laws but to explain them more fully and to correct the errors that people introduced.
Archbishop Durocher said. “It isn’t that truth is a dogma and mercy is something on the sidelines of Christian teaching. We have to find real ways of bringing these together and it’s not easy to.”
What does he mean ‘it isn’t that truth is a dogma’; that’s just a sardonic and only adds to the confusion.
Dogma is a truth appertaining to faith or morals, revealed by God, transmitted from the Apostles in the Scriptures or by tradition, and proposed by the Church for the acceptance of the faithful.
“If anyone says that it is possible that at some time, given the advancement of knowledge, a sense may be assigned to the dogmas propounded by the Church which is different from that which the Church has understood and understands: let him be anathema.” (Vatican I).
Hope for the remarried
“The fact that topics like Communion for the divorced and remarried are even being discussed is giving people hope”, Archbishop John Dew said.
The Catechism number 1415 states. “Anyone who desires to receive Christ in Eucharistic communion must be in the state of grace. Anyone aware of having sinned mortally must not receive communion without having received absolution in the sacrament of penance.”
The archbishop should remember also the teaching of St. Paul who said, “Therefore whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord unworthily will have to answer for the body and blood of the Lord.” 1 Corinthians 11:27.
Apparitions and the Synod’s “Relatio”
Pope Pius Xll said, “I am worried by the Blessed Virgin’s messages to Lucy of Fatima.
This persistence of Mary about the dangers which menace the Church is a Divine warning against the suicide of altering the Faith, in Her liturgy, Her theology and Her soul. … I hear all around me innovators who wish to dismantle the Sacred Chapel, destroy the universal flame of the true Faith of the Church, reject Her ornaments and make Her feel remorse for Her historical past.”
Sister Lucy said that a ‘diabolical disorientation’ would overtake the Church.
It seems that these princes of the church and I fear many others would like to change the Church’s teaching to fit the sinner rather than change the sinner to fit the teaching of the Church.
God forgives those who ask for forgiveness.
– Joe Hannah