[Magdalen] RC Synod releases document with new tone, calling for mercy, listening | National Catholic Reporter

[Grace Cangialosi]

Did I miss something? Has the Eschaton arrived?
Ye gods, indeed!
I was talking with a friend earlier this evening who has just returned from a trip to Rome. She is an etEpiscopal priest now, but spent some earlier years as an RC nun. She said they went to a general audience with the Pope, and she ended up standing about 20 feet from him...AND his address was about ecumenism! She said she nearly fainted.

> On Oct 13, 2014, at 6:00 PM, "M J [Mike] Logsdon" <mjl at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> 
> One sentence alone jumped out at me, and maybe, possibly, in the end cause the most unrest?:
> 
> Regarding homosexual persons:  "Are our communities capable of providing [a welcoming home], accepting and valuing their sexual orientation, without compromising Catholic doctrine on the family and matrimony?"
> 
> "Valuing ... [homosexual] orientation"?  Valuing???  Ye gods.
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> "O perplexed discomposition, O riddling
> distemper, O miserable condition of man!"
> - The Rev Mr John Donne
> (in a not-so-chipper moment)