Synod on Synodality Week 2: Key Issues Emerge in Small Group Discussions | EWTN News Nightly

It is the second week of the Synod on Synodality in Rome, where hundreds of participants gather every day to discuss how to be a synodal Church on mission. Bishops, religious and lay people from across the globe participating in the general assembly have now been divided into smaller study groups to discuss particular issues. Authority and relationships within the Church are some of this week's topics, but many more are expected to be covered. Senior Editor for the National Catholic Register, Jonathan Liedl, joins to share what some of the pressing issues being discussed are and what stands out the most to him. After last year's session, Pope Francis took controversial topics off this year's agenda and assigned them to separate study groups. Liedl tells us the status of these. One of the groups is looking at the possibility of women deacons. We hear that the issue is still being discussed at the Synod. Liedl explains more about this.

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[MarkABE]

The Second Vatican Council was conducted in quite a different way. All of the Bishops from all over the world assembled together. The proceedings were in Latin. One English Bishop, when asked what was discussed and decided at the meetings he attended confessed that he did not know - he had to wait until The Times was published and he received the overseas edition - that told him what had been discussed and what had been decided. However, at least the meetings of the Council were in public and reporters were present at all times. There were no secret “discussion groups” supposedly formulating the doctrine of the Church. What is happening now is that the Pope and Cardinal Fernandez have decided what changes they wish to see in Church practice and they have selected those to attend the small discussion groups who will put forward their agenda for them. They will then present changes to the practice of the Church as being “Synodal” in nature, that is to say, not coming down, by the Holy Spirt, from above, to the Bishops as custodians of the Faith handed to the Church by the Apostles, but coming from below, as in a democracy. So, the Church is to become a Democracy rather than a Theocracy. Good luck with that!

[alphacharlietango]

The "synodal church " is not The Church

[PAULSCHENCK-xg]

Regarding women's ordination: We must keep before the Church that Jesus called only males to priesthood, and those men were exclusively Jewish - therefore only Jewish men are qualified to receive Holy Orders. No more talk about ordaining gentiles!

[phaedruscj]

Anytime you see small discussion groups in any context you know its a sham process for show. Nothing meaningful ever comes out of these waste of time activities. But it useful for producing visuals for media release.

[carolinafine]

“More in-depth study on some of these more complicated issues”…. Translation: ‘how can we license more sin.’. The Grand Inquisitor from The Brothers Karamazov has arrived.

[glennlanham]

anybody else scared to death by this thing?