<table id=cafe_editor_main_table_color bgColor='#e4f7ba' cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0 width=100%><tr><td id=cafe_editor_main_table class=text><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 75, 0); font-size: 18pt;"></span></p><h2><span style="color: rgb(102, 75, 0); font-size: 18pt;">Bishops hint at substantially altered final Synod document</span></h2><p class="subtitles"><strong><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Circuli minores in lively discussions about family issues</span></strong></p><p class="subtitles"><br></p><p style="text-align: center;"><img class="big-img" alt="<p>A media briefing is held at the Vatican Press Office on Wednesday (Photo by Daniel Ibáñez/CNA)</p>" src="http://www.ucanews.com/uploads/2014/10/1413429802.jpg"> </p><span class="img-txtz"><p style="text-align: center;"><br></p><p>A media briefing is held at the Vatican Press Office on Wednesday (Photo by Daniel Ibáñez/CNA)</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br></p></span><div class="country-list"><ul><li>Andrea Gagliarducci for CNA/EWTN News</li><li>Vatican City</li><li>October 16, 2014</li></ul></div><p class="sharelist"><br></p><div class="sharelist"><ul><li><div class=" fb_reset" id="fb-root" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div style="top: -10000px; width: 0px; height: 0px; position: absolute;"><div></div></div><div style="top: -10000px; width: 0px; height: 0px; position: absolute;"><div><iframe name="fb_xdm_frame_http" tabindex="-1" title="Facebook Cross Domain Communication Frame" id="fb_xdm_frame_http" aria-hidden="true" src="http://static.ak.facebook.com/connect/xd_arbiter/w9JKbyW340G.js?version=41#channel=f1e9d33ef642c76&origin=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ucanews.com" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" style="border: currentColor; border-image: none;" allowtransparency="true"></iframe><iframe name="fb_xdm_frame_https" tabindex="-1" title="Facebook Cross Domain Communication Frame" id="fb_xdm_frame_https" aria-hidden="true" src="https://s-static.ak.facebook.com/connect/xd_arbiter/w9JKbyW340G.js?version=41#channel=f1e9d33ef642c76&origin=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ucanews.com" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" style="border: currentColor; border-image: none;" allowtransparency="true"></iframe></div></div></div>
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</li></ul></div><p><br></p><ul><div class="clear"></div></ul><div class="clear"></div><div class="main-txt-news"><p>As the synod fathers' small groups continue to meet, it seems increasingly clear that the Synod of Bishops' concluding document, the <em>relatio synodi</em>, will be substantially different than the midterm <em>relatio</em> which was released Monday.</p><p><br></p><p>The <em>relatio synodi</em> is called to mirror the concerns and proposals raised during the small group discussions this week, in which bishops have been grouped according to language.</p><p><br></p><p>After the issuance of the midterm report, the synod fathers raised their concerns in 41 free interventions, which highlighted the absence of the word sin, the absence of the Gospel of Family, and some perhaps naive sentences of the document which could be subject to misinterpretation.</p><p><br></p><p>“The issue at stake is whether the Catholic Church is going to shape the world with its teaching, the truth it reveals, or if it is going to be shaped by the world,” said Archbishop Stanislaw Gadecki of Poznan, who is president of the Polish bishops' conference.</p><p><br></p><p>The small groups are said to be having lively discussions about the issues at stake.</p><p><br></p><p>Archbishop Salvatore Fisichella, president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting the New Evangelization, underscored in a briefing with journalists that his small group has “discussed topics which had not been properly discussed in the synod hall”.</p><p>Archbishop Fisichella stressed that “there is little acknowledgement of the natural methods of family planning: there is almost a form of boycott to educate about natural family planning”.</p><p><br></p><p>Meanwhile, Bishop Nicolas Djomo Lola of Tshumbe, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, listed among the missing hotspots in the synod’s midterm report “the attention for the children without family because of war”.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Full Story:</strong> <a href="http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/synods-indicator-swings-toward-a-rewrite-of-midterm-relatio-12405/" target="_blank"><u><font color="#0066cc">Bishops indicate swing towards rewrite of synod document</font></u></a></p><p><strong>Source:</strong> <a href="http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/" target="_blank"><u><font color="#0066cc">Catholic News Agency</font></u></a></p><p><br></p></div><p><br></p></tr></td></table>
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