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Synod Letter Number Fifteen | Xavier Rynne II, ed. | First Things

In today’s LETTERS FROM THE SYNOD…

  • George Weigel expresses further “Doubts about Devolution”: the case that national borders somehow “make magisterium” is a hard one to sustain, given the contingency of national borders over time.
  • Father Robert P. Imbelli argues that the Synod “will be fruitful to the extent that it can provide a compelling Christological frame for the portrait and promise of family life that it paints.”
  • Questions about the reception of Holy Communion by the divorced and civilly remarried are not new to Synod-2015. It’s worth recalling what the Church has already said on the matter.


Letter Number Fifteen | Xavier Rynne II, ed. | First Things

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