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“The Synodal Continental Assembly has confirmed the Church’s way of doing things in Africa. The family of God in Africa is firmly rooted in the synodal dynamic. Synodality is no longer a remote desire, a faint hope or a distant future objective.”

“The region is plagued by corruption, drug crop cultivation and narcotrafficking,
illegal gold mining, illegal logging, pollution from aging oil fields and opposition to setting swaths of forested area aside to protect nomadic indigenous groups that continue to shun contact with wider Peruvian society,” writes Barbara Fraser.

“Let’s face it clearly; something has been dying in our Church for a long time, of which the child abuse scandals were only a recent manifestation,” writes Garry O’Sullivan.

The controversial blessing of same-sex couples has long been a practice in his diocese, according to Essen Bishop Franz-Josef Overbeck.

German Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Mueller has accused the Vatican of not taking a clear enough position in opposing the resolutions adopted in the Synodal Path reform project.

“Throughout history, and across the globe, as art, history and literature testify, same sex attraction and acts have been a consistent feature of human life. In that sense, they cannot be called unnatural or abnormal. Same-sex attraction is simply a facet of the human condition,” writes Owen O’Sullivan.