There are many aspects in which the responses reflect this inconsistency. Three themes grab attenti

The Church is living a crucial moment in several respects. Pope Francisco knows that one of these concerns the Christian concept of the family and sexuality. It is therefore important to know the public responses from some local churches, drafted under the responsibility of the bishops' conferences, to the 39 questions that the Pope has referred to the People of God in these matters, in order to prepare hand held shower the Extraordinary Synod (2014 ) and ordinary (2015) on these issues. So we have known the documents of the churches in Germany, Japan, Austria, Switzerland, Belgium and France, and some other statements or fragmentary information. What conclusions can be obtained from these first, few but important churches?
First of all, it is essential to take into account the unprecedented act of the Pope: the bishop of Rome calls for the Church to exercise fidelium sensus. The "sense of faith of the faithful" has a theological valence of the first order, hand held shower because with the Word of God, tradition, liturgy and other "theological places" more is recognized as a source of knowledge of God and his will. Catholic dogma has that infallibility in matters of faith lies in the people of God (believers and pastors included), although the explanation of what is believed corresponds to the Magisterium. In this sense, the Pope, to ask the Church response to these 39 questions, exercises his universal pastoral responsibility seeking to check whether the doctrine is received hand held shower (accepted and practiced); and second, asks whether the Spirit is not leading to a reinterpretation or new explanation of the love of God in terms of human sexuality, through the practice of the baptized believer.
Well, if the responses of the other churches are similar to those that I have reviewed, the bishops of the Synod October this year 2014 and will be strongly impressed to see how to make adjustments in doctrine or offer new criteria for interpretation. The bishop of Manila recently said he was "shocked hand held shower ... because in almost all parts of the world, the questionnaires have indicated that the teaching of the Church on the subject of family life, is not clearly understood by the people."
The conclusion hand held shower that emerges from a blunt way of reading the responses indicated is: what the Church teaches, is not the practice of the Church. Not in the sense that Catholics living immorally. The problem is the huge gap between what the people of God believed to be the Catholic sexual morality and the official teaching of the Church. For example, according to French Church: "A large number of responses shows the gap between church teaching and choice of couples who declare themselves Catholic." The report of the Belgian church reads: "The widening hand held shower gap between the family, in all ways in which we know it today, and the teaching of the Church on marriage and family, is, according to the survey, the main concern of those who respond. " And, in German: "The answers hand held shower arrivals dioceses hand held shower provide a glimpse of how great the distance between the baptized and the official doctrine ...". In the responses of the other questionnaires this same warning.
There are many aspects in which the responses reflect this inconsistency. Three themes grab attention hand held shower by coincidence. One concerns the responsible parenthood. Catholics, overwhelmingly, do not follow the Humanae Vitae regarding its ban on artificial contraception. The wording of the French is net: "A large majority of responses indicated that the encyclical Humanae Vitae (1968) led many couples to break with the doctrine of the Church. The Church's insistence on this point seems incomprehensible. " The German added that in his church, "below 3% minority persists in favor of" natural "contraceptive methods and practices by personal hand held shower conviction, often also for health reasons."
If this first issue has ceased to be exasperating, still unknown to young people, not excluding the sacraments of the divorced and remarried. Ecclesiastical ban causes enormous suffering for those who feel excluded, when there is in itself a scandal in the light of evangelical mercy. The Germans affected consider q