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Christian Today
Ruth Gledhill CHRISTIAN TODAY CONTRIBUTING EDITOR 15 October 2015
The Catholic Church moved closer to a split over homosexuality and marriage after divorce today after traditionalists called for a walk out by “faithful” bishops at the Synod on the Family in Rome.
The Twitter hashtag #synodwalkout quickly began trending after the conservative blog One Peter Five set up a change.org petition calling on the conservative cardinals and archbishops to stage a walkout. Within hours of being posted early this morning, the petition gained more than 1,600 signatures.
Observers in Rome and on social media began talking of “chaos”, and headlines such as “showdown in Rome” began to appear on well-informed conservative websites.
One Peter Five reports: “As the evidence mounts that the Synod’s outcome has been pre-determined, I have joined a number of other concerned Catholics in writing an open letter. In it, we request that those Synod fathers who are faithful to Christ’s teachings, if they continue to be thwarted in their efforts, walk out of the Synod before it is over rather than allow their participation be interpreted as support.”
The conservative blogger adds: “Even at this late hour, we must try to protect the faith.”
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