https://nzcatholic.org.nz/2022/07/04/nz-dioceses-publish-synod-synthesis-documents/ The New Zealand National Catholic Newspaper Tue, 26 Jul 2022 04:30:17 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://nzcatholic.org.nz/2022/07/04/nz-dioceses-publish-synod-synthesis-documents/#comment-85430 Tue, 26 Jul 2022 04:30:17 +0000 https://nzcatholic.org.nz/?p=25479#comment-85430 Very impressive. So long as we continue to exclude women from the Church’s governance structures, decision-making processes and institutional functions, we deprive ourselves of the richness of our full humanity.

]]> https://nzcatholic.org.nz/2022/07/04/nz-dioceses-publish-synod-synthesis-documents/#comment-85000 Thu, 07 Jul 2022 23:41:53 +0000 https://nzcatholic.org.nz/?p=25479#comment-85000 Not one single mention of “Jesus” or heaven. Spirit is only referred to as in ‘spiritual’ and “God” is mentioned only in reference to ourselves – ‘people of God’. Ophra and Dr.Phil would be proud.
Shameful.
Maybe that’s why many don’t take part – it doesn’t appear to be about God or Scripture (as Cardinal Kasper noted viz the German Weg). Rather, it’s for people who love talking about 3rd and 4th order derivative topics, who to make themselves more popular at polite upper-middle class professional cocktail parties.

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