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COMMENTARY: The Catholic Church’s primary role remains: It is the instrument of the salvation of souls.
By Edward Pentin, EWTN News,
Edward Pentin began reporting on the Pope and the Vatican with Vatican Radio before moving on to become the Rome correspondent for EWTN’s National Catholic Register.
From what can be gathered from the publicly restricted discussions at the Synod on Synodality, delegates talked a great deal about welcoming and inclusion, about some potentially radical changes in Church governance, and specific issues such as women’s ordination, homosexuality and immigration.
The focus, therefore, appears to have so far been primarily on the temporal, on matters clearly pertaining to this world and mostly according to merely worldly perspectives, both regarding the Church and society.
By contrast, how much has the essence of the faith and the supernatural been discussed? More to the point, when did the delegates speak of the importance of the Church’s primary role as the instrument for the salvation of souls? Connected to that, how much throughout this process has the reality of the Four Last Things — death, judgment, heaven and hell — figured in discussions, documents and deliberations? …
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