Robert Duncan
Looking ahead to the October 2015 world Synod of Bishops on the family, Cardinal George Pell said the task for Catholics “over the next 12 months” is to explain “the necessity of conversion, the nature of the Mass” and “the purity of heart the Scriptures require of us to receive Holy Communion”.
Cardinal Pell’s remarks came in a homily he had prepared for a celebration of Mass in the extraordinary form at Rome’s Church of the Most Holy Trinity of the Pilgrims.
The “college of bishops and all synods work by consensus,” Cardinal Pell wrote. Before next October, Catholics have to work to build a consensus “out of the present divisions,” he wrote.