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Vatican City – The Catholic Church, represented by 267 prelates from all continents, is wrapping up a one-month synod for young people on Saturday, but this international badembly of bishops, too diverse, has not delivered concrete proposals to admit the participants.
In opening this world summit on October 3, Pope Francis had asked the bishops to "transform"The sometimes rigid structures of the Church.
Successful bet? The final document, which must be approved on Saturday, "looks like an Ikea catalog", baderts a bishop particularly irritated by the heavy consensual machine of the Vatican."You have everything you need for the bathroom and the kitchen, in all styles, so everyone is there".
"A bishop from Eastern Europe ventured to say that church morality saying + no bad before marriage + had become untenable. We went to the next and we did not talk about it anymore", he says.
"Another day, the conservatives went to the wall asking for a reminder of the morality of the Church"he sighs."Young people will decide for themselves anyway".
"On the digital a consensus is possible, on the badual morality it is impossible, the positions are too diverse", summarizes another bishop.
Some of the 267 "synod fathers"criticized the unequal exercise of discussion and voting of a final text provided only in Italian." The Indian cardinal Oswald Gracias was surprised to read in the conclusions written in small groups an element of theological language ("synodality") dear to the pope but absent from the debates, leaving a doubt of manipulation of the consultation process.
– Strong experience –
"Some bold proposals, likely to make headlines, have not been taken up", confirms the French Bishop Emmanuel Gobillard, one of the few to have talked about baduality.
But it puts forward a remarkable experience within a universal Church, with a diversity of languages and cultures. "Something has happened, but it's untranslatable for the media"he describes.
The joyous reactions of 34 young guests were a breath of fresh air, praised by the bishops. And their testimonies touched them, in particular that of a young Iraqi evoking the war.
At the same time, the opinion of a handful of experts admitted to the synod took an unusual place in this badembly in the masculine.
"I would not be surprised if a future synod is dedicated to women"says sister Nathalie Becquart, enthusiastic French participant.
If all the bishops promise to decline at home the teachings of the synod, the final text of about fifty pages will be content with large generalities at points of friction gummed. A very short text, more likely to be read by young people, is in preparation.
– Ideological instrumentalization –
The LGBT acronym, on which the African bishops put a lead screed, had already been blasted upstream by a conservative American bishop. Unsurprisingly, it is absent from the final text.
In the press room of the Vatican, American journalists antipodes, pro-gay and ultra-conservatives, never ceased to question the prelates on this subject which remained secondary in the debates.
What get out of his hinges the German cardinal Reinhard Marx, advisor to the pope, furious at the ideological instrumentalization operated by "lobbies"."This is not a synod on baduality, but on young people"he has tempered, preferring to strongly advocate the need to place women in decision-making positions of the Church."We must understand the signs of time!"
Andrew Nkea Fuanya, Bishop of Cameroon, a country where many young people attend Mbad, said that if he spoke of "LGBT" on his way home, "99% of people would ask him + What are we talking about?He also argued that this acronym could cut off foreign financial aid.
The badual abuse of the clergy, much discussed the first week, will figure prominently in the conclusions, without holding the top of the bill as claimed by the German speakers. For many countries, so far spared by scandals, have been unresponsive to the earthquake that shook the Church, from the United States to Europe and Chile.
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