The parallel concern, evident especially among African and Asian bishops but also among some from the Americas, is that the experience and concerns of the Church in the developing world are getting shorter shrift than they deserve.
In sum, the concern is that the Instrumentum Laboris-and thus the Synod’s speeches and debates-tend to focus too much on concerns brought to the Synod from the First World (the “Kasper Proposal ” the question of the Church’s stance toward civil unions for same-sex couples the authority-if any-of national conferences of bishops to make pastoral provisions for the divorced and civilly remarried that are dramatically different from those in other sectors of the world Church). Archbishop Charles Chaput of Philadelphia also remarked on this curiosity in his comments at the Synod press conference of October 7. BEING THOUGHTS ON SYNOD 2015 FROM VARIOUS OBSERVERSĮurocentricity, Demographic Winter, and the Synodĭuring the first week’s work of Synod-2015, numerous Synod fathers have commented on what seems to them the Eurocentric character of the Instrumentum Laboris, the Synod’s basic working document now being digested in the circuli minores (the Synod’s language-based discussion groups) as well as commented upon in the Synod’s general assemblies.
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