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Why the young are drawn to ‘rigid rules’
SIR – Matthew Schmitz (Comment, October 12) astutely notes the influence of ‘‘progressive Catholicism’’ on the synod on youth; apparently, young people want ‘‘a Church that ‘listens’ ”; they ‘‘want to be able to speak of sexuality ‘without taboo’ ’’ and “exercise discernment” rather than being “bound by ‘rigid’ codes’’, despite the fact that ‘‘hen elites destroy these codes – as they did with Friday abstinence after the Second Vatican Council – they deprive the poor of their religious discipline, and the result is spiritual and even material disorder. When Francis characteristically polemicises against rigidity and ‘fundamentalism’, he polemicises against the poor’.”
