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"Today the concept of truth is viewed with suspicion, because truth is identified with violence. Over history there have, unfortunately, been episodes when people sought to defend the truth with violence. But they are two contrasting realities. Truth cannot be imposed with means other than itself! Truth can only come with its own light. Yet, we need truth. ... Without truth we are blind in the world, we have no path to follow. The great gift of Christ was that He enabled us to see the face of God".Pope Benedict xvi, February 24th, 2012

The Church is ecumenical, catholic, God-human, ageless, and it is therefore a blasphemy—an unpardonable blasphemy against Christ and against the Holy Ghost—to turn the Church into a national institution, to narrow her down to petty, transient, time-bound aspirations and ways of doing things. Her purpose is beyond nationality, ecumenical, all-embracing: to unite all men in Christ, all without exception to nation or race or social strata. - St Justin Popovitch

Monday 11 July 2016

A NEW WEBSITE ON POPE FRANCIS, SYNODALITY AND THE SYNODS

CONCILIARITY AND ECCLESIAL LOVE
Monks and Mermaids has almost two thousand posts. Here is a multi-media, multi-source website with the posts referring to Pope Francis and Synods, giving us as complete a picture of this surprising pope as possible.  In time, it will be added to.  Please click on any subjects you wish. Later, we will publish a similar website on Orthodoxy and its synods.

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

INTRODUCTION‎ > ‎THE RAVENNA AGREEMENT‎ > ‎RESSOURCEMENT THEOLOGIANS‎ > ‎THE CATHOLIC CHURCH: UNIVERSAL AND LOCAL‎ > ‎POPE FRANCIS IS ELECTED‎ > ‎POPE FRANCIS CONTINUES‎ > ‎THE WORK OF THE HOLY SPIRIT BY POPES BENEDICT AND FRANCIS‎ > ‎THE ENCYCLICAL OF TWO POPES: LUMEN FIDEI‎ > ‎POPE FRANCIS AND THE PASTORAL CARE OF PEOPLE IN A SECOND MARRIAGE‎ > ‎THOMAS MERTON AND POPE FRANCIS‎ > ‎EPISCOPAL SYNODS AS EXPRESSIONS OF COLLEGIALITY‎ > ‎THE COMMUNION OF SAINTS, THE CHURCH AS COMMUNION & THE GOSPEL OF COMMUNION‎ > ‎THREE ARTICLES, ONE BY THE POPE EMERITUS, ONE BY A CANON LAWYER AND ONE BY ME, ON THE CHURCH AS "DIVERSITY IN UNITY".‎ > ‎CARDINAL KASPER ON MERCY, CARDINAL BURKE ON CHRIST'S LAW, AND CARDINAL SCOLA ON UPHOLDING THE TRADITION plus MY COMMENTARY‎ >


EXTRAORDINARY SYNOD ON THE FAMILY

 ‎THE SYNOD ON THE FAMILY 1‎ > ‎SYNOD ON THE FAMILY - 2 :Second Marriages in Venice from “La Civiltà Cattolica”‎ > ‎THE SYNOD ON THE FAMILY IN THE LIGHT OF THE NEW EVANGELISATION - 3:‎ > ‎THE CHURCH AS COMMUNION: THE INFLUENCE OF THIS THEOLOGY ON THE SYNOD ON THE FAMILY. (4)‎ > ‎,THEOLOGICAL LIBERALISM AND THE SYNOD (5)‎ > ‎OCTOBER 12th: OUR LADY OF APARACIDA IN BRAZIL & THE BLESSING OF AN ICON IN OUR MONASTERY (SYNOD ON THE FAMILY - 6)‎ > ‎SYNOD ON THE FAMILY -7: THE VATICAN URGES CHANGE OF ATTITUDE TOWARDS GAYS‎ > ‎"GRADUALISM IS ANOTHER NAME FOR LICENCE." NO, IT IS NOT! by Elizabeth Scalia (THE SYNOD AND THE FAMILY - 8)‎ > ‎SYNOD AND FAMILY - 9 -‎ > ‎THE SYNOD, AN EXERCISE IN "SOBORNOST" (Synod - 10)‎ > ‎REVIVIFYING CATHOLIC TRADITION by Father Paul McGavin EPILOGUE TO THE SYNOD (11)‎ >



SYNOD ON THE FAMILY

Using the Shepherd’s Crook: Pope Francis Schools Evangelicals, the Media, and the Entire Catholic Church in One Sermon by Jonathan Ryan><THE POPE, THE SYNOD & THE RAVENNA DOCUMENT‎ > ‎Pope Francis reforms Church law in marital nullity trials‎ > ‎FOR THE "HARD OF HEART" THE LAW OF MOSES STILL APPLIES: ANOTHER LOOK AT CHRIST'S TEACHING ON MARRIAGE‎ > ‎MY HOMOSEXUAL BROTHER & THE MASTER-KEY TO CHRISTIAN THEOLOGY by Jean Danielou s.j.: TWO SIDES TO A COMPLEX, HOLY AND GREAT THEOLOGIAN‎ > ‎PRESIDING FLOWS FROM CHARITY BY POPE FRANCIS‎ > ‎< ‎FORBIDDEN TO CALL IT DIVORCE. BUT IS SURELY LOOKS LIKE IT.also ON THE WAY THE SYNOD WILL WORK plus MY COMMENTARY‎ > ‎<THE SYNOD AND CATHOLIC TEACHING: LOOKING AT THE SYNOD AS A LESSON IN ECCLESIOLOGY>‎ < ‎THE REAL SYNOD HAS YET TO ARRIVE by Robert Mickens‎ > < ‎CONFLICT BETWEEN "CONSERVATIVES" AND "LIBERALS" IN THE SYNOD: WHAT ARE THE POINTS OF AGREEMENT AND DISAGREEMENT? WHO GAINS?‎ > ‎RESSOURCEMENT THEOLOGY, AGGIORNIAMENTO AND THE HERMENEUTICS OF TRADITION: ALL THIS RELATED TO THE SYNOD‎ > ‎THE EUCHARIST, SYNODALITY, AND COLLEGIALITY: THE THEOLOGY OF METROPOLITAN JOHN ZIZIOULAS AND THE VISION OF POPE FRANCIS‎ > ‎ARE THE BISHOPS FIDDLING WHILE PLACES OTHER THAN ROME BURN? (plus) ABOUT THE FINAL DOCUMENT‎ > ‎UNITY IN DIVERSITY IN CHURCH AND MARRIAGE‎ > ‎GUARDINI AND THREE POPES (plus) UNITY IN DIVERSITY II - THE HOUR OF RECONCILED DIVERSITY‎ > ‎HOW POPE FRANCIS UNDERSTANDS THEOLOGY AND TRADITION by Eduardo Echeverria, James Schall S.J. and David Bird O.S.B.‎ >< <AMORIS LAETITIA": TWO ARTICLES AND A COMMENTARY>

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