Vatican 3?

[hedgehog]

n conclusion, I suggest convoking a general synod at the level of the universal church in which all Christians would participate-Catholics and others-to examine with openness and clarity the issues raised above and their ramifications.

Such a synod would last three years and would conclude with a general assembly-let's avoid the word council-which would synthesize the results of this exploration and draw its conclusions.

http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/guestvoices/2010/03/a_call_for_a_catholic_reformation.html

Pope considers emergency ‘abuse summit’
Senior clergy call for crisis gathering of bishops as fears grow that the scandal is spiralling out of control
By John Phillips in Rome – Independent – Sunday, 28 March 2010

As pilgrims, tourists and the faithful congregate in St Peter’s Square today to collect olive branches during a solemn Palm Sunday Mass, an embattled Pope Benedict XVI is coming under mounting pressure to call an emergency synod of bishops from around the world to hammer out a new strategy to deal with the worsening child abuse scandal, Vatican sources say.

http://opentabernacle.wordpress.com/

[Matilda]

1. I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for Vatican III.

They're too busy trying to roll back Vatican II.

"Open Tabernacle" is an interesting website; thanks for the link.

There is a good article on the side about Benedict's disinclination to listen to what critics have to say:

http://opentabernacle.wordpress.com/2010/01/31/what-is-the-popes-idea-of-reform/

I noted this paragraph:

"St. Bernard of Clairvaux, one of the great medieval Doctors of the Church, wrote to then Pope Eugenius III–in his De Consideratione– and admonished him; explaining to him that the papacy could only be an instrument of service to the Church, uniting all of its members in charity, rather than lording power and certain prerogatives over some in an authoritarian manner; as had become the rule du jour in the Middle Ages."

The hand of the Vatican is a very heavy one, and in spite of having been wrong so often on so many issues in the
past, the hierarchy still seem to think that only they have the key to truth.

The sexual abuse scandals are a potent symbol of how they get it so wrong - the pope has apologised, but only on
behalf of the abusive priests. At no time has he ever accepted that the Vatican itself was in any way responsible.
The abusive priests were protected by bishops, and those bishops wouldn't have given their protection had they ever
had cause to believe that they would be held accountable to the Vatican. No, they knew they were doing what the
Vatican would expect, and that's where the buck stops. On the desk of the Pope.

[Angry Dragon]

2. I find it very interesting that these bishops and cardinals

can not decide on their own what is right or wrong. It seems that they can not think for themselves and need someone to tell them what is a crime.