{"id":6858,"date":"2014-06-15T05:52:40","date_gmt":"2014-06-15T09:52:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/?p=6858"},"modified":"2025-06-29T11:45:15","modified_gmt":"2025-06-29T15:45:15","slug":"st-john-paul-ii-and-the-synods-on-the-family-national-catholic-register-june-15-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/st-john-paul-ii-and-the-synods-on-the-family-national-catholic-register-june-15-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"St. John Paul II and the Synods on the Family, National Catholic Register, June 15, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fr. Roger J. Landry
\nNational Catholic Register Print Edition
\nJune 15, 2014<\/p>\n

When Pope Francis canonized John Paul II on April 27, he dubbed him the \u201cPope of the Family.\u201d He added that, as the Church heads toward this October\u2019s \u201cExtraordinary\u201d and next October\u2019s \u201cOrdinary\u201d Synods on the Family, it \u201cis surely a journey that, from his place in heaven, [John Paul] guides and sustains.\u201d<\/p>\n

Among scholars of John Paul II\u2019s teachings on human love, sexuality, marriage and family, however, one of the concerns leading up to the synods is whether the Pope of the Family\u2019s guidance has been getting heard and heeded.<\/p>\n

With the exception of the recent invention of same-sex unions and the push for the normalization of same-sex activity, none of the major questions the synods will address is new. They were tackled in great detail and depth in 1980, during the last Synod on the Family, and were analyzed and answered by St. John Paul in his 1981 exhortation\u00a0Familiaris Corsortio<\/a><\/em>\u00a0(The Role of the Christian Family in the Modern World).<\/p>\n

This is the richest study on the family in the history of the magisterium, where John Paul summarizes the Church\u2019s theology on marriage and family life and applies those truths to still-pressing questions and problems.<\/p>\n

In the preparatory document and questionnaire sent out by the Vatican in anticipation of this October\u2019s synod, however, there was, shockingly, only one rather insignificant citation of this seminal exhortation. John Paul\u2019s 1994 \u201cLetter to Families<\/a>\u201d \u2014 which developed how \u201cthe history of mankind, the history of salvation passes by way of the family\u201d and presented a compelling vision of spirituality for the family today \u2014 wasn\u2019t cited at all.<\/p>\n

Neither were John Paul\u2019s five years of\u00a0catecheses on \u201cHuman Love in the Divine Plan<\/a>,\u201d popularly called the \u201ctheology of the body,\u201d which presented John Paul II\u2019s most developed biblical anthropology on the nuptial dimension of human life and on the importance of the sacrament of marriage in human redemption.<\/p>\n

Cardinal Carlo Caffarra of Bologna \u2014 one of John Paul\u2019s chief collaborators on marriage and family issues and his chosen theologian to be the founding president of the John Paul II Institute for the Studies of Marriage and Family in Rome \u2014 declared in a March interview that he was \u201cflabbergasted\u201d at the neglect of John Paul\u2019s theology of marriage in the buildup to the synod.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the history of the papacy,\u201d he stressed, \u201cno pope has ever spoken so much about this theme, and yet this teaching is ignored as if it did not exist.\u201d<\/p>\n

There are two fundamental reasons, I believe, why this treasure has been disregarded in much of the synods\u2019 formal and informal preparations.<\/p>\n

The first is that many in the Church, including prelates and theologians, are either not very familiar with John Paul II\u2019s corpus or misunderstand it. John Paul\u2019s ideas haven\u2019t had anywhere near the consequences they might have had, because, in most dioceses and parishes, they haven\u2019t been assimilated and implemented.<\/p>\n

We can apply G.K. Chesterton\u2019s famous quip about Christianity to John Paul\u2019s theology on marriage and family life: In various parts of the Catholic world, his teaching \u201chas not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.\u201d<\/p>\n

It also has been misunderstood by many of those in positions needed to implement it.<\/p>\n

In some parts of the Catholic world, leading clergy and theologians believe that John Paul\u2019s theology of the body is primarily a North-American construct addressing fundamentally North-American fixations. That is partially because the theology of the body has become too associated with the interpretations of some of its most diligent proponents, who have occasionally overemphasized its teachings with regard to the theology of sex in ways that aren\u2019t relevant to settings, like in Latin America, where there\u2019s no residual puritanism.<\/p>\n

But the theology of the body is far bigger than a theology of sex: It provides the rich anthropological premises drawn from Divine Revelation for almost every conclusion of the Church\u2019s teachings with regard to human love, marriage and family.<\/p>\n

The same misunderstanding is also relevant to the second reason why I believe John Paul\u2019s insights have been getting sidelined leading up to the synods. Misconstrued in this way, his thoughts would seem almost rebellious to raise after Pope Francis said in Jesuit magazines last September that Catholic clergy and faithful should stop insisting about issues regarding sexuality, abortion, \u201cgay marriage\u201d and contraception.<\/p>\n

Pope Francis stressed in that interview, \u201cWhen we speak about these issues, we have to talk about them in a context.\u201d That context, he said, is the\u00a0kerygma<\/em>, the larger truth about Jesus\u2019 loving and saving mercy.<\/p>\n

When the Church\u2019s moral teachings are presented without this frame of reference, they risk being transmitted as an unattractive, \u201cdisjointed multitude of doctrines\u201d that, although true, don\u2019t show the heart of Jesus\u2019 saving message.<\/p>\n

Pope Francis emphasized, with great pastoral wisdom, that, without the fuller proclamation of the love of God, there\u2019s a danger that many will misconstrue the Church\u2019s teachings in areas of human sexuality, marriage and family as arbitrary rules that have little connection to Jesus.<\/p>\n

John Paul II\u2019s teachings, however, especially his theology of the body, provide the kerygmatic \u201ccontext\u201d Pope Francis insists is so crucial: They demonstrate that the Church\u2019s teachings are not a \u201cdisjointed multitude of doctrines,\u201d but, in fact, part of a whole message of who God is, who the human person \u2014 \u201cmale and female\u201d \u2014 is and the right path after the Fall to grow more and more into God\u2019s likeness as a communion of persons in love.<\/p>\n

The theology of the body is one of the most important \u201cmedications\u201d needed in what Pope Francis calls the \u201cfield hospital\u201d of the Church. The most painful human, emotional and spiritual lesions come from the lack of being loved, from broken hearts and broken families.<\/p>\n

We need a battlefield infirmary because there\u2019s a war going on \u2014 the same primordial combat that the devil has been waging since the beginning against love, marriage and the family.<\/p>\n

Since the sexual revolution, the toll of that war has been incalculable. The theology of the body not only provides much of the medicine for the Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (MASH) unit, but also some of the theological weapons useful to keep people from needing the field hospital in the first place.<\/p>\n

John Paul\u2019s theology of the body is an expression of the\u00a0kerygma<\/em>\u00a0required for the evangelization of today\u2019s families.<\/p>\n

Pope Francis has called Catholics to imitate Jesus on the Road to Emmaus, accompanying people on their journeys, entering into their conversations and seeking to warm their hearts patiently by the fire and love of one\u2019s own faith.<\/p>\n

As we see with the two Emmaus disciples, Pope Francis says, the reasons why people wander from Jerusalem generally bear the seeds of their eventual return. Today, many abandon the Church in areas of sexual morality, marriage and family life because they think that the Church\u2019s whole approach is one big \u201cthou shalt not,\u201d an asbestos straitjacket wrapped around the most passionate of human experiences.<\/p>\n

John Paul\u2019s theology of the body helps people to recognize that, rather than denying their deepest longings, the Church\u2019s teachings make possible their achievement. As so many young people have discovered, the theology of the body not only warms their hearts, but can ignite them.<\/p>\n

John Paul II\u2019s theology of the body is indeed one of the bridges the Church must take to meet those whom Pope Francis says are on the \u201cperipheries of existence,\u201d because it is precisely the misunderstanding of the why behind the what of the Church\u2019s teachings on human love, marriage and family that has led many people to feel alienated from the Church.<\/p>\n

The theology of the body provides the \u201ccontext\u201d for people \u2014 both those on the outskirts of the moral life as well as those charged by Jesus to announce his saving\u00a0kerygma<\/em>\u00a0to them \u2014 to see why the Church\u2019s teachings in these areas are part of the Good News, not the \u201cbad.\u201d<\/p>\n

As the synods approach and the crisis of the family worsens, the Church needs the guidance of the \u201cPope of the Family\u201d now more than ever.<\/p>\n

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