News media miss mark on church's family synod

Reading the sophomoric meanderings coming from left-leaning media regarding the Catholic Church "Synod On the Family, coming from Rome, deserves a response. After 2,000 years of Christians living the truths given to us by Jesus Christ, and recorded for us in sacred scripture, suddenly the left-leaning media is telling us we got it all wrong. "Thou shalt not kill" (abortion and euthanasia) in some cases OK; "honor thy father and thy mother" in the sacrament of Holy Matrimony can now include "thy father and father"; "thou shalt keep holy the sabbath" remains OK as long as it stays within our homes and our church, just not in the marketplace of ideas or, God forbid, politics.

Then we have the elephant in the room with the Sixth Commandment. The well-authenticated miracles that occurred at Fatima in 1917 where Mary, the Mother of God, appeared to three young children, and warned, "More souls are lost to heaven and condemned to hell due to sins of the flesh (adultery, fornication, homosexuality) than any others."

The Synod statements found online are significantly different from what the secular press is reporting - that being we will suddenly be able to live our lives in contradiction to the clearly expressed laws of Almighty God. First of all, they are not magisterial decrees per se. They are all about the pastoral approach to evangelizing. These will not change, as they are Christ's teachings to ensure his desire that all of us will have eternal life with him, and not some suggestions for perceived earthly happiness.

Seldom in the history of our world have the words "keep the faith" been more needed and appropriate. Lets get the message straight. Our eternal life depends on it.

Jim Finnegan

Barrington