A columnist is attacked for failing to hold the 'professional' credentials of a theologian? What hubris! In fact, it is theologians who have no excuse for failing to produce their own credentials to teach.
Sadly, the Christian family finds itself not only being threatened by the wiles of the Culture of Death but wondering if the teaching of the Church remains secure.
One excerpt: NY Times' Douthat - Who won the Synod? …nobody won, because really everybody won. ...conservatives won what was probably the closest thing to victory that they could have hoped for
Collins was one of a dozen or so Synod fathers who came under intense criticism after signing a letter to Pope Francis expressing concern over the Synod's direction.
The Synod appears to have opened a 'crack' to open up a possible path for Kasper's proposal. And the German bishops' small group was the decisive factor in making it happen.