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Vatican City (APA / AFP) – The bishops gathered at the Vatican Synagogue presented their final document after more than three weeks of deliberations. The report, released Saturday night, covers a number of topics, but does not offer concrete innovations or central message to youth.
Pope Francis spoke after the vote on the synodal document of a "difficult moment" for the Catholic Church, which should be polluted by "ongoing accusations". He called on the bishops to protect the church from this "persecution". In his comments, the pope may have evoked his conservative opponents, who had strongly attacked him in connection with the scandal of abuses committed within the church.
The final document of the synod calls for the fight against various forms of abuse. In addition, there is a complaint about the lack of "accountability and transparency" in the handling of abuse cases.
The text also discusses the role of women in the church. You have to give them a bigger role, he says. The church is facing an "inevitable change" on this point. Bishops also advocated accompanying homobaduals in their faith. Attempts to anchor the abbreviation LGBT (bad, gay, bibadual and transgender) in the final document have failed.
At the Vatican Synod, 267 bishops from all over the world and dozens of young people, experts and guest listeners participated, including Austrian cardinals Cardinal Christoph Schönborn and "young bishop" Stephan Turnovszky. The meeting was overshadowed by the scandal of abuses committed in the Catholic Church. In recent years, thousands of cases of badual abuse by religious have been known around the world.
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