Pope Francis’ Subversive Synod on Synodality
“A hostile takeover of the Church of Jesus Christ.” That was how Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller of Germany described the Synod on Synodality, the ongoing experiment in church chaos unleashed in 2022 by Pope Francis (Jorge Mario Bergoglio). That’s a serious charge from a high-level prelate and theologian who has served as prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. The late Cardinal George Pell of Australia dittoed that evaluation, referring to the Synod as “a toxic nightmare” and as “this potpourri, this outpouring of New Age goodwill.” The second and final formal session of this ecclesial “nightmare” concluded at the end of October.
What now? How will this Synod impact the Catholic Church and the world? Well, according to the “progressives” in the Catholic clergy and the worldly media, it represents a seismic “paradigm shift” in Catholic teaching and will usher in a glorious new age for humanity. Catholic prelates and lay faithful of the traditional, orthodox persuasion do not dispute that the Synod signals a seismic shift in 2,000 years of Catholic teaching on doctrine and morals. However, they charge that this tectonic move amounts to papal endorsement for a destructive tsunami that includes open borders, LGBTQ “rights” (including “gay” marriage), married priests (and priestesses), abolition of the death penalty, easier annulment/divorce, de-emphasis of opposition to abortion and euthanasia, worshiping creation rather than the Creator, global government under the anti-Christian United Nations, a Marxian socio-political-economic ideology, accommodation with communist regimes, and more.
“Renewal” or Revolution?
According to Bishop Athanasius Schneider of Kazakhstan, “The so-called ‘synodal path’ is ultimately an attempt to give official approval to truly heretical doctrines.” Schneider, who grew up under communist persecution in the Soviet Union, says the aims of a synod should be to “clarify doctrine without any ambiguity, without any doubt” and to “reject the errors of the time.” But those in charge of this Synod, he asserts, are allowing (and helping) “poison, spiritual poisons” to spread.
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