[Grem] Strong criticism of Youth Synod document

[Emoke Greschik]

 Archbishop Chaput publishes strong criticism of Youth Synod document
by *Michael Davis <http://catholicherald.co.uk/author/michael-davis/>*
posted Friday, 21 Sep 2018
http://catholicherald.co.uk/news/2018/09/21/archbishop-chaput-publishes-strong-criticism-of-youth-synod-document/
Archbishop Charles Chaput (AP)

He published analysis by a 'respected North American theologian' raising
concerns over the document

Archbishop Charles Chaput of Philadelphia has published* a wide-ranging
criticism of the Instrumentum Laboris (a kind of introduction or preamble)
for the upcoming Synod on the Young People, the Faith, and Vocational
Discernment.*

In an introductory paragraph, Chaput explains that the analysis was
“received from a respected North American theologian”. The article, which
appears in *First Things*
<https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2018/09/thoughts-on-the-instrumentum-laboris>,
warns that *the **Instrumentum **veers dangerously close to heresy –
specifically the heresies of naturalism, Lutheranism, and relativism.*

It begins by criticizing its “*naturalist” understanding of modern sexual
dysfunction: widespread promiscuity, online pornography, and the like. **“The
document laments only its ‘disfiguring the beauty and depth of affective
and sex life’*,” he writes. “*No mention is made about the disfigurement of
the soul, its consequent spiritual blindness, and impact on the reception
of the Gospel by one so wounded.”*

He also claims* the document* *exhibits an “inadequate grasp of **the
Church’s spiritual authority”*,* denying** her role as a teaching
authority. *According to the *Instrumentum*: “*The Church* *will opt for
dialogue as her style and method*… No vocation, especially within the
Church, can be placed outside this ongoing dynamism of dialogue.” According
to the theologian*, this amounts to saying: “The Church does not possess
the truth but must take its place alongside other voices.*

*Were the Church to abandon her ministry of preaching,* that is, were the
roles of the teaching Church and the listening Church to be inverted,* the
hierarchy itself would be inverted, and the ministerial priesthood would
collapse into the baptismal priesthood. In short, we would become
Lutherans,” he continues.*

Finally, he accuses the *Instrumentum *of* taking a “relativistic
conception of vocation”.* He quotes *the document’s references to “personal
holiness” and one’s “own truth”, adding bluntly: “This is relativism”.
*Moreover,
he warns against* the “false humility” of prioritizing “accompaniment” over
that of preaching. *This, he says, *“gives the impression that absolute
truth is not found in God.”*

Back in August, Chaput asked Pope Francis to postpone the Synod
<http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/news/2018/09/03/archbishop-chaput-asks-pope-to-postpone-youth-synod/>
itself. Right now, the bishops would have absolutely no credibility in
addressing this topic,” the archbishop said at an August 30 conference at
Philadelphia’s St Charles Borromeo Seminary, according to a report
published on the archdiocese website. In its place, Archbishop Chaput
suggested that the Pope “begin making plans for a synod on the life of
bishops”.
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