Form a committee or some kind of group and after awhile they will want to know how much power they have.
I read at CNA:
Synod on Synodality members ask ‘for greater discernment’ of Church teaching on sexuality
Participants in the Synod on Synodality have asked “for greater discernment on the teaching of the Church on the subject of sexuality,” a Vatican spokesman said at a press briefing today.
The revelation seems to be at odds with synod organizers’ repeated insistence that the monthlong assembly will not take up doctrinal questions but will instead focus on how the Church can better listen to its members.
The discussion of sexual doctrine came during the synod members’ work in the morning session, shared Paolo Ruffini, the president of the synod’s communications commission. During that session, participants focused on the theme of “mercy and truth.” The theme includes a controversial question on “what concrete steps are needed to welcome those who feel excluded from the Church today because of their status or sexuality.”
Ruffini said that while some asked for further discernment on the Church’s sexual teaching, others “said there’s no need for this further discernment.”
Ruffini did not expand on what he meant by “discernment” and was not asked to clarify. [Not asked to clarify? It seems to me that if some want more of something, it would be good to know what it is.]
Members made the request for “greater discernment” of the Church’s sexual doctrine during the assembly’s discussion of the controversial topic of LGBTQ inclusion. Following the synod’s working document, participants were asked to consider “what concrete steps are needed to welcome those who feel excluded from the Church today because of their status or sexuality.”
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And Cardinal Mario Grech, who heads the Vatican office for synods, said that “no one wants to depart from the Church’s teaching,” this past July in response to questions about doctrinal changes that could result from the synod. [No one wants to depart from the Church’s teaching…. riiiiiight.]
Here we go!
This is about sodomy, I’m afraid.
What they want won’t happen in this round of W-T. Remember, the true content of the W-T about W-T is the process. During the processing and discerning, eventually what will happen in common perception is that what Paul with zero ambiguity condemns in Ephesians 5 is actually okay. No, wait, maybe we start with Card. Kasper’s beloved formula of “tolerated but not accepted” and then move, through the permanent revolution processing and discernment to where those things are “accepted, not just tolerated”. Finally, they could become obligatory, once the masks are off.
Ephesians 5, friends. Colossians 3. “αἰσχρότης , ητος, ἡ,” (aischrót?s) … it meant something in the Greek of the ancient world: ugliness, deformity, filthy conduct. It is a euphemism for homosexual acts.
