Family synod midterm report: Welcome gays, nonmarital unions

Pope Francis should revisit his thoughts that the Holy Communion is not a reward for the upright but a tonic for the weak.

Synod of Bishops on the family

By Francis X. Rocca
Catholic News Service

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — In strikingly conciliatory language on situations contrary to Catholic teaching, an official midterm report from the Synod of Bishops on the family emphasized calls for greater acceptance and appreciation of divorced and remarried Catholics, cohabitating couples and homosexuals.

“It is necessary to accept people in their concrete being, to know how to support their search, to encourage the wish for God and the will to feel fully part of the church, also on the part of those who have experienced failure or find themselves in the most diverse situations,” Hungarian Cardinal Peter Erdo of Esztergom-Budapest told Pope Francis and the synod Oct. 13.

Cardinals Luis Antonio Tagle of Manila, Philippines, and Timothy M. Dolan of New York speak before the morning session of the extraordinary Synod of Bishops on the family at the Vatican Oct. 13. (CNS/Paul Haring)

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