I’m sure those scientists have only good intentions in mind much like the good intention of the ones who came up with the internet. It’s what the devil will use it for that scares me.
"The risk of the synodal process, it has always seemed to me, is that it would devolve into a talking shop for a coalition of the hypermotived and the specially invited, with proposals having little to do with the needs and ideas of ordinary Catholics and everything to do with the agendas of the small minority who showed up".
In light of that statement, I think you need to reassess your conclusion that:
"that radical proposals against the magisterium, like those in the Luxembourg report, represent some kind of sensus fidelium of the global Church. Instead, it seems, they are the 1%."
It is, unfortunately, very difficult to tease out of the numbers just which voices are being ignored. In Luxembourg it is clearly those who are traditional who are being left out. In my diocese I do not feel that there was much of a "real" attempt to include those outside of the inner circle and I am quite certain that the report will reflect a wholesale agreement with our Bishop's very Trumpian worldview.
Despite a significant number of the faithful who agree with our Pope that the Church should take a pastoral approach to the real problems faced by real people, I have no doubt that many Bishops will turn in a report that dramatically understates this view.
Wait, the synod process has begun? I've heard _nothing_ about it at the local level, including via my official archdiocesan email, and as a deacon I'm not exactly disconnected from events. How can it be done?
Is Archbishop Gallagher related to the guy who used to smash watermelons with a sledgehammer?
As scary as some of the synod stuff is, it pales in comparison to the zombie spiders. I'm going to have nightmares about that all weekend.
I’m sure those scientists have only good intentions in mind much like the good intention of the ones who came up with the internet. It’s what the devil will use it for that scares me.
But what did JD say about Bradley Cooper? The people need to know!
I totally agree with your concern that:
"The risk of the synodal process, it has always seemed to me, is that it would devolve into a talking shop for a coalition of the hypermotived and the specially invited, with proposals having little to do with the needs and ideas of ordinary Catholics and everything to do with the agendas of the small minority who showed up".
In light of that statement, I think you need to reassess your conclusion that:
"that radical proposals against the magisterium, like those in the Luxembourg report, represent some kind of sensus fidelium of the global Church. Instead, it seems, they are the 1%."
It is, unfortunately, very difficult to tease out of the numbers just which voices are being ignored. In Luxembourg it is clearly those who are traditional who are being left out. In my diocese I do not feel that there was much of a "real" attempt to include those outside of the inner circle and I am quite certain that the report will reflect a wholesale agreement with our Bishop's very Trumpian worldview.
Despite a significant number of the faithful who agree with our Pope that the Church should take a pastoral approach to the real problems faced by real people, I have no doubt that many Bishops will turn in a report that dramatically understates this view.
Wait, the synod process has begun? I've heard _nothing_ about it at the local level, including via my official archdiocesan email, and as a deacon I'm not exactly disconnected from events. How can it be done?