Trained and qualified as RC priest. 13-plus years priest. Retired 1994. Retrained in education, sociology & development science, Germany 1994 -1999, MSc.
"Let us be careful: Both the 'progressivism' that lines up behind the world and the 'traditionalism' that longs for a bygone world are not evidence of love, but of infidelity."—Pope Francis https://t.co/9hxN7ArbQb via @NCRonline
“I'm not afraid of these pressure groups, no. What I would like and what I pray for is that the Holy Spirit will really hijack this process.” https://t.co/QMlSVUqzQD
“If I want to make my contribution as a baptized [person],” the cardinal said, “I have to be convinced in my conscience that what I am communicating is God's will. It's not a sheer opinion." https://t.co/QMlSVUqzQD
At the ecclesial assembly, “people will be coming from each episcopal conference: laity, clergy, religious, consecrated persons. It’s what we mean when we say the people of God.” https://t.co/QMlSVUq215
“It is the first time that we are holding this [kind of] communal discernment. In the past, the synthesis was carried out by one or by two [people] at most, but we took this new initiative.” https://t.co/xnrarJEUJL
"The synod is not an event celebrated once every three years but is a process: a process that has a beginning but, believe me, I don’t think will have an end." https://t.co/xnrarJEUJL
The Church's Global South is still overwhelmingly 'clerical centric... Even most spriests in Kenya Catholic have no idea about the reports their dioceses presented to the Syno Secretariat.
As more power shifts to the global south, the church sometimes struggles to chart a path forward for all regions, each of which has its own distinct perspectives. https://t.co/M5tRC6DKu9