Discussions and Discernment
One of the proposals that was most heatedly debated, both inside and outside the Synod hall, was the possibility of ordaining married men into the priesthood to try to address the shortage of priests in the Amazon region.
Sep 12, 2020
By Ines San Martin
One of the proposals that was most heatedly debated, both inside and outside the Synod hall, was the possibility of ordaining married men into the priesthood to try to address the shortage of priests in the Amazon region.
In the note published by Spadaro, Pope Francis writes that sometimes the “bad spirit” ends up “conditioning discernment, favouring ideological positions (on both sides), favouring exhausting conflicts between sectors and, what is worse, weakening the freedom of spirit so important for a synodal journey.”
When this happens, an atmosphere is created that ends up “distorting, reducing and dividing the synodal hall into dialectical and antagonistic positions that do not help in any way the mission of the Church,” the Pope explained. ––Crux
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