Laws may be added above and beyond the natural law, for example human laws that seek to serve the common good in concrete circumstances, but these laws can never negate the natural law.
The cardinal criticized the argument, advanced by Synod fathers such as Archbishop Cupich, that the Church should give Communion to people in sinful situations if they believe they are sinning 'in good conscience.'
Brisbane Archbishop Mark Coleridge indicated it wasn’t only one Synod Father who spoke about the “smoke of Satan” having entered the Church via the Synod.
The overall content and tone of Archbishop Koch's report are troubling and filled with a softening and liberalizing tenor, without directly attacking dogma or infallible teaching of the Church.