Kant’s work was considered such a threat to Church teachings that even scholars needed special permission from their bishop or religious superior to consult it.
The synodal process and the Final Document suggest that Catholicism is moving in the direction of a more participatory and missionary Church—if slowly.
‘Fiducia supplicans’ seems written to reinforce very stubborn ideas: that there is a proper place for liturgy and that married gay people do not belong there.
