Vigano's Opening Address | National Catholic Reporter by MSW. MGB: It is interesting that the Nuncio did not offer any instructions on the feedback process for the Synod, but that is a workshop topic, not an opener. It is interesting that he goes first, because it would indicate to any lawyer with a sexual abuse case who is clever enough to see it that the Nuncio is in charge, so the world-wide institution is liable, not just the diocese. There is a lot of culturally inappropriate art in Vatican City which makes the Holy Family appear northern Italian. Sell it and settle the suits. Of course, it is mostly the lawyers who want the big payoff.
On youth, I am surprised that the theme was not inclusion because they will eventually bear the torch of carrying the Gospel (which I am sure scares these old men, given how different they are culturally on the topics of gays marrying and women serving in their jobs). Instead, it was teen drug abuse and suicide. Oddly, teen suicide is very much attributable to finding one is gay and wants sex and being told that this is disordered behavior. Other suicides are due to alcoholism and mental illness (often triggered by the wrong meds) - which is a health matter as much as a pastoral one - and very much related to adequate funding for mental health care - which is supposed to be at parity under the law, but hardly is if you look at resource deployment in society. Catholic Charities should probably work harder at this, but finding the money is not easy - although the US spends more than anyone else now, so it may not be just the money.
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