The Final Report of Study Group 9 of the Synod on Synodality is a jaw-drooping attack on Scripture and everything that the Church has ever taught concerning sodomy.
Is sodomy no longer a sin? Are instances of same-sex attraction among those inclined to commit it no longer to be viewed as a disorder? Will the sacrament of marriage soon be administered to couples in committed homosexual relationships?
Has the Church, in other words, changed her mind on the subject of sexual perversion, no longer insisting sodomites cease and desist from a practice that, until quite recently, she had unequivocally condemned? One might certainly think so, judging from the latest document coming out of the Office of the Synod of Bishops, in which the Church’s traditional teaching is thoroughly trashed on the grounds that it persists in keeping alive a “paradigm” no longer applicable in today’s world.
“The Church’s mission,” we are now being told,
is not a matter of abstractly proclaiming and deductively applying principles that are set out in an immutable and rigid manner, but of fostering a living encounter with the person of the risen Lord Jesus, by engaging with the lived experience of faith of the People of God.
And when the lived experience finds itself at variance with the received teaching of the Church? What then? Why simply adjust the teaching to fit the practice. God forbid that people should have to adjust their practice to fit the teaching. Unless, of course, like all tyrants, the Church were to force her teaching down unwelcome throats, thus causing people to throw up.
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