Sexuality, death, corruption, drug-trafficking, porn, video-games, migration, war, friendship and disabilities are only some of the issues that bishops from all over the world are planning to discuss in a summit in Rome this October, which will focus on youth, their faith and vocation.
“Young people feel a lack of harmony with the Church,” says the document released on Tuesday, ahead of the Synod of Bishops on youth. “It seems that we don’t understand the vocabulary, and therefore also the needs, of the young.”
The instrumentum laboris, or working document, presented in Rome on Tuesday is the result of several previous steps, including an online questionnaire answered by thousands of young people from around the world, as well as a gathering of the youth that took place in Rome earlier this year. The document will serve as the basis for the discussions the bishops will have in October.
“Some LGBT young people, through their contributions to the Secretary of the Synod, wish to ‘benefit from a greater closeness’ and experience greater care from the Church, while some bishops’ conferences question what to propose to ‘young people who … decide to constitute homosexual couples who, above all, want to remain close to the Church,” the instrumentum says.
Those who are against Church teaching on controvesrial issues such as abortion and contraception “still want to continue to be part of the Church and demand more clarity on it.” As a consequence, those in charge are asked to “confront, in a concrete way, controversial arguments such as homosexuality and the issues of gender, over which the young already argue with freedom and with no taboo.”
Addressing the fact that in some parts of the world youth are leaving the Church “in great numbers,” the Instrumentum laboris says that it’s “crucial” to understand why, stating that among the reasons already identified are “indifference and lack of listening” from the Church, and the fact that “many times the Church seems to be too severe and often associated to an excessive moralism.”
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Easy: if you don’t accept the Church’s doctrine, you don’t belong in it until you do accept it.
There, no need for a big, expensive meeting.
The Church should make no apologies for being Catholic, nor should it give an inch to her enemies who want to change her.
Bishops need to grow a spine.
It is not the Church that needs to change. It is these young people that need to conform to the teachings of the Church and Gospel truths that have stood the test of time. Pope Francis just this week stated that marriage is only between a man and woman. Hopefully the youth and others that disagree with the Gospel truths will accept the word of Almighty God on all these moral issues. Remember what scripture states that not even the gates of hell will prevail against the Church. Jesus Christ King of Kings Lord of Lords True God and True Man is coming back soon like a thief in the night. Turn to a God of love and mercy before it is too late. Repent and convert! Pray America Pray. Pray Pray Pray!
” “It seems that we don’t understand the vocabulary, and therefore also the needs, of the young.” ” Since when did the church stop understanding the needs of young Catholics?
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The kids do understand the words but they just don’t want to deal with them so they claim ignorance and they skate away.
All need truth, regardless of age. Many have found the Church’s moral teachings to be stumbling blocks which makes it all the more important to proclaim them in every age. Sexual activity is rightly relegated to marriage between one man and one woman, period. There’s no way to slice and dice it, much as some in Church leadership might try. Pray these synod bishops will be true shepherds to the flock.
By listening to Catholic youth, church leaders can learn how these youth think, what they have learned, and how youth are conformed with or separated from Jesus’ teaching. With clear doctrine and patient love, holy church has the Spirit of God, His truth, His doctrine, His love to teach the youth the truth, not to conform the church to the desires or worldly thinking of some of our youthful Catholics. After listening, Holy Church should know where to direct her teaching, her worship, her administration of grace, sacraments, salvation for thus generation that often wishes to be heard but fails to listen to the Truth of Jesus.
EWTN papal posse criticizes Vatican use of ‘propaganda term’ ‘LGBT’ in Youth Synod working document
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“This is a big problem,” Murray stated. “We do not use the political language of the gay rights and associate movement when analyzing the nature of man and the nature of sin.”
“The Catholic Church does not accept that there is a category of human being created by God meant to commit homosexual activity,” he emphatically said. “We don’t believe that bi-sexual people exist in the sense of saying God made certain people who want to have sex with both men and women.”
Without missing a beat, Father Murray continued, “We do not believe in trangenderism.”
“The Catholic Church does not teach that God made some people women…