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"Youth Synod document looks like repeat of past synods that undercut Church teaching"
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"Preliminary reports after the Vatican’s Youth Synod question whether the final document released last weekend portends further undermining of Church teaching.
In an apparent repeat of the 2015 Synod on the Family, Catholic principles on sexuality, and the Church’s governance and apostolic nature may be in for another ambiguous reinterpretation ushered in by dubious processes during the Youth Synod.
The 'Synod on Young People, the Faith and Vocational Discernment' ended Saturday, with the entire final document getting the required two-thirds majority for passage.
Sections of the document on sexuality, synodality and the role of women in the Church, and the document’s deference to the working document (Instrumentum laboris) met with notable pushback in the vote from some Synod fathers but passed anyway.
Further adding to concerns over the final document is Pope Francis’ release of a document known called an Apostolic Constitution just before the Youth Synod that aims to augment the magisterial force of the final document generated by a Synod.
The 2015 Synod on the Family and its 2014 predecessor turned into a battle over Communion for Catholics living in objectively sinful situations.
Called with a theme of addressing issues faced by the family today, the Synod on the Family was widely considered to be conducted with a predetermined outcome — the tacit approval of Holy Communion for divorced and civilly remarried Catholics and others living in otherwise non-marital unions.
Irregularities surrounding the Synod processes, ostensible manipulation behind the scenes, and the use of ambiguous language in Synod documents signaled an assailing of the Church’s perennial teaching on marriage. Amoris Laetitia, the pope’s exhortation resulting from the Synod on the Family, has drawn disparate interpretations by episcopal conferences worldwide, bringing about the feared end with regard to Communion.
In the Youth Synod final document, there is indistinct language that could open the door for normalization of homosexuality in the Church, and it also contains wording suggesting it should be read in light of the Instrumentum laboris, or working document, which contained the term LGBT, the first time for a Vatican document to have the loaded political term.
The concept of Synodality — typically understood to mean a decentralization and democratization of the Church and the magisterium away from the papacy and the Vatican to local churches – was included in the final document, when it hadn’t been widely discussed during the Synod. This has been a talking point of Pope Francis in his pontificate but was a surprise in the final document, suggesting it was likely slipped in by among synod officials appointed by the pope.
Further, language in the final document calling for the 'presence of women in ecclesial bodies at all levels' — and that their participation be included in 'ecclesial decision-making processes' — raised a red flag related to tampering with the apostolic nature of the Church, rejecting Christ’s intent for episcopal leadership, and weakening the spiritual fatherhood of priests.
The final document for the Synod on Youth was released in Italian. An English translation is expected in the next few weeks. The English translation of the final document from the Ordinary Synod on the Family ending October 25, 2015, was not released until mid-December 2015.
While the term LGBT did not make it into the final document, the term 'sexual inclination' did, along with vague language on ministering to homosexual individuals that could be read as a green light for affirming homosexual behavior.
This effort to insert ambiguous language that would destabilize Church teaching recalls the Synod on the Family, which pushed 'accompaniment' of couples in 'irregular unions,' the primacy of 'conscience' with regard to individuals in adulterous or other sinful unions discerning that they could receive Communion, and also a 'healthy decentralization' of power, referencing a push to redirect power away from the papacy and toward episcopal conferences.
The paragraph on sexuality in the Youth Synod final document says among other things that 'there are questions concerning the body, affectivity and sexuality which require a deepened anthropological, theological and pastoral elaboration.' It references 'paths of accompaniment in the faith of homosexual persons' and speaks of these paths helping these persons 'to recognize the desire to belong to and contribute to the life of the community; and to discern the best ways of achieving it.'
It also says these 'paths of accompaniment' are to help homosexual individuals 'integrate the sexual dimension more and more into their personality, growing in the quality of relationships and walking towards the gift of self.'...
Jesuit Father James Martin, Vatican communications sonsultor and fervent proponent of LGBT affirmation, praised the Synod’s final document’s use of the term 'accompaniment,' and said it 'acknowledged that the church doesn't know everything about LGBT people and (as with other groups) must listen to them.' Martin also lauded the document’s acknowledgement the many in the Church already work to minister to persons identifying as LGBT, and said it 'spoke clearly of the need to reach out, include and look for ways for LGBT people to be part of the life and mission of the church.'"
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