VATICAN CITY
National Catholic Reporter
Thomas Reese | Oct. 7, 2014 NCR Today
The bishops at the synod on the family will not change any doctrines, according to reports from the Vatican Press Office on the second day of their discussions.
On the floor of the synod, “There was no language whatsoever of a need to change doctrine,” reported Basilian Fr. Thomas Rosica who attended the closed sessions. Rather the desire was “to repurpose what we know in a way that’s accessible” to all. “I didn’t hear anything about changing doctrine, but I heard a great desire to deepen our understanding of doctrine,” he told journalists.
Over and over again, journalists are being told there will be no change in doctrine.
Jesuit Father Bernard Lonergan, the great 20th-century expert in theological method, is turning over in his grave. Hearing such language, Lonergan would have said that the bishops are caught in classical mentality and have not moved into a historical consciousness.
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