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What will be the role of (non-baptized) cafeteria Catholics in the Catholic Synodal Way?

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There are group of lay Catholics who are sometimes called cafeteria Catholics. They attend Church regularly, pray Rosary, try to live good and holy (according to some adapted meaning) life, but usually they can not participate in the Holy Communion and Penance Sacrament due to some heavy unresolved issues. Almost always those issues are related with the matter of the 6th Commandment. Sometimes those Catholics are baptized (e.g. in case they are coming from faithful families) and sometimes they are not even baptized (e.g. in case they joined the Church in adulthood but after the events that lead to unresolved/un-resolvable conflict, e.g., after establishing SSA person relationships with the full personal complementarity). My question is about the role and participation possibilities for such persons in the Synodal Way of the Catholic Church https://www.synod.va/it.html that is starting in coming weeks. **Is there role for cafeteria Catholics? Will they be listened to?** *My guess and understanding is that synodal process is open for the baptized Catholics only that can also include baptized subset of the cafeteria Catholics, although formality will not be enforced especially, e.g., my guess is that the baptismal documentation will not be required for the participation in the process.* I read the guidelines for the synodal process as issued by our local bishops and these guidelines do not elaborate on this. They are written as for the good standing Catholics only. Even more, they strictly prohibits any discussions about the teaching about faith or morality and they allow any discussions only about the 10 questions that are mentioned in the https://www.synod.va/en/news/preparatory-document.html and are focused on the listening and communication processes completely neglecting the content.
Asked by TomR (617 rep)
Sep 22, 2021, 07:42 PM
Last activity: Oct 5, 2021, 02:12 AM