{"id":24659,"date":"2014-10-17T15:37:54","date_gmt":"2014-10-17T21:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publiccatholic\/?p=24659"},"modified":"2014-12-17T14:29:52","modified_gmt":"2014-12-17T21:29:52","slug":"pope-adds-african-cardinal-to-synod-drafting-committee-cardinal-pell-says-were-not-collapsing-in-a-heap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publiccatholic\/2014\/10\/pope-adds-african-cardinal-to-synod-drafting-committee-cardinal-pell-says-were-not-collapsing-in-a-heap\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Adds African Cardinal to Synod Drafting Committee. Cardinal Pell Says ‘We’re Not Collapsing in a Heap’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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Public Catholic reader Ken alerted me to the fact that Pope Frances has added another member to the drafting committee<\/a> for the final report from the First Synod on the Family.<\/p>\n

This report will not directly affect Church teaching. It will be used for further discussion during the next year.<\/p>\n

The new member is rather interesting, considering Cardinal Kasper\u2019s foot in mouth comment about African bishops<\/a> a couple of days ago. He is Cardinal Wilfrid Napier, of South Africa.<\/p>\n

The Holy Father also added Archbishop Denis Hart of Melbourne to the committee.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, Cardinal Pell has given an interview to Catholic News Service<\/a> in which he says,<\/p>\n

We\u2019re not giving in to the secular agenda; we\u2019re not collapsing in a heap. We\u2019ve got no intention of following those radical elements in all the Christian churches, according to the Catholic Churches in one or two countries, and going out of business.<\/p>\n

The midterm report was \u2018tendentious, skewed; it didn\u2019t represent accurately the feelings of the Synod fathers. In the immediate reaction to it, when there wa an hour, an hour and half of discussion, three-quarters of those who spoke had some problems with it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It promises to be way past interesting, reading the final report and seeing what the \u201cSynod fathers\u201d have done. I imagine that this \u201cfinal\u201d report will be drug around, cut apart, analyzed, applauded and attacked until we get to the \u201creal\u201d synod and the whole things starts over again.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Public Catholic reader Ken alerted me to the fact that Pope Frances has added another member to the drafting committee for the final report from the First Synod on the Family. This report will not directly affect Church teaching. It will be used for further discussion during the next year. The new member is rather […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1155,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,5321,1],"tags":[6973,6954,6972,6971,6947,5325],"class_list":["post-24659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-catholic","category-synod","category-uncategorized","tag-african-bishops","tag-cardinal-kasper","tag-cardinal-napier","tag-cardinal-pell","tag-synod-on-the-family","tag-synod-on-the-family-2014"],"yoast_head":"\nPope Adds African Cardinal to Synod Drafting Committee. 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