While a majority of Synod Fathers are said to support allowing different national regions to establish their own ways of dealing with contentious issues such as homosexuality and divorce, Cardinal Arinze of Nigeria has stated that the proposal is impossible for the Catholic Church to adopt.
“The Ten Commandments are not subject to national frontiers. A bishops’ conference in a country cannot agree that stealing from a bank is not sinful in that country, or that divorced persons who are remarried can receive Holy Communion in that country, but when you cross the boundary and go to another country it now becomes a sin,” he told LifeSiteNews in an exclusive interview in Rome on Saturday.
“You can see you then, if we did that, we have made the Ten Commandments a matter of decision according to sensitivities in each country. It can not be so,” he added.
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