So, has anyone else heard the news from the latest RCC synod?
http://online.wsj.com/articles/bishops-scrap-welcome-to-gay-catholics-in-sign-of-split-1413658267
http://www.christiantoday.com/article/catholic.synod.closes.without.any.major.shift.on.h omosexuality.or.divorcees/41887.htm
Do you think that the RCC will continue to open up or is this only a nicer public face on what the church already teaches?
Disclosure: I'm an evangelical, but I'm very interested in what the RCC decides.
At the same time, the report suggested that remarried Catholics could receive communion after a period of penance. Currently, the church denies communion to Catholics who have remarried, unless their first marriage is annulled.
Some of the strongest opposition to offering a more welcoming stance to homosexuals came from bishops from the Global South. Homosexuality is illegal in 37 African countries and merits the death sentence in Mauritania, Sudan and northern Nigeria.
Although they have simmered under the surface for years, in laying bare the depth of divisions in the Catholic Church for the first time, Pope Francis' extraordinary synod has shown the Anglican Communion that it is not alone in its own struggles in these areas. Even though the Pope's mission for reform did not meet with the success he hoped, the strong support he got was greater than many expected, given the centuries of tradition and the face that most of the cardinals were appointed by his predecessor, the conservative Pope Benedict, who as Cardinal Ratzinger authored the "intrinsic moral evil" text on homosexuals.
Although they have simmered under the surface for years, in laying bare the depth of divisions in the Catholic Church for the first time, Pope Francis' extraordinary synod has shown the Anglican Communion that it is not alone in its own struggles in these areas. Even though the Pope's mission for reform did not meet with the success he hoped, the strong support he got was greater than many expected, given the centuries of tradition and the face that most of the cardinals were appointed by his predecessor, the conservative Pope Benedict, who as Cardinal Ratzinger authored the "intrinsic moral evil" text on homosexuals.
Do you think that the RCC will continue to open up or is this only a nicer public face on what the church already teaches?
Disclosure: I'm an evangelical, but I'm very interested in what the RCC decides.
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