Catholic Youth Synod working document calls abortion, homosexuality ‘especially controversial’

March 27, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – A working document for the upcoming Synod on Youth allegedly drafted by young people says Catholic teaching on “contraception, abortion, homosexuality, cohabitation” is “especially controversial” and that “they may want the Church to change her teaching.” About 300 young people from around the world were in Rome March 19-24 at the inaugural Pre-Synodal Meeting, which produced a working document to be put before the bishops for consideration at the synod in October. The document was published over the weekend and officially delivered to Pope Francis by young people on Palm Sunday. The 15th Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops is centered on “Young People, the Faith and Vocational Discernment.” It is billed by the Vatican as an “expression of the Church’s pastoral concern for the young.” When the youth synod was first announced, Catholic observers were leery of its intent. This was because of the apparent manipulations of the recent …