Synod story take two

The manipulation and deceit on the "interim report" of the bishop's synod on families is well known, but CWR now has an article on how the FINAL report was manipulated against the desires of the African and other bishops.

But after the row, during the committee meeting, Cardinal Napier realized that the secretariat, its advisors, translators, and theologians, were the ones actually putting the documents together, not the committee. “That’s when I recalled the concern expressed a few months before and realized that it had some substance to it”, he said. “Until then I had kept it under my hat, so to speak.”
This also made him realize that the Church in Africa had to “come out now and say where we stand and what we stand for.” He was pleased that no African group had come together to force the synod in any particular direction. “I think that would be wrong for us to do that,” he said, “but I think it’s pretty clear we’re challenged to speak out; otherwise we mustn’t complain afterward.”
A Rome priest in close contact with synod officials said that, for him, this incident explains why the synod organizers did not accomplish their agenda, despite their best efforts. “They’re so arrogant”, he told me. “They believe they can treat human beings like pieces of material, and yet, I’m sorry to say, the arrogance is causing them to destroy themselves. The sin of pride is always its own greatest enemy.”

Back off soddies

Father Z warns that the press has taken sides on the Bishop's conference on the family, and includes the WAPo cheering section.

fight, starting with the rosary

Another post comes complete with an NRA commercial 

My comment: Father Z's airplane: complete with cross.

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or maybe we should just march in and tell them:





Ok I stand corrected: He tells them to Sod off, not back off.

Ironic, isn't it, that the elves (The liberals) and the dwarves (the conservative Catholics) are ready to fight, but both are so busy with their feuds that they fail to see the real danger is approaching?

more seriously, the Pope's "easy annulment" pronouncment sounds so merciful:

But what it essentially is doing is making annulments so easy that they are similar to "No fault divorce". So it sends a signal to those who will marry that if it doesn't work out, hey no problem: Quickie divorce and try again.

I say this despite the fact that our family is full of such marriage problems.

My husband didn't need an annulment because his obsessive/compulsive bipolar wife hated Catholics, and refuse to marry in the church (back then it meant my husband was excommunicated and would have gone to hell if he died, but never mind).

My son's wife married him in church and left the next week to live with a boyfriend who made more money. You see, she wanted to be the heroine in a fancy wedding ceremony (her civil marriage was in a dress) and even though she had plans to leave, she pretended otherwise.

And then there is my stepson. He married because he was "cured" of being gay (I tried to warn his fiance about all the good Catholic/Christian/Mormon women that I had counseled who had gone through such marriages, but I couldn't get her alone to lay down the law.... I did manage to say in public that if she married in the Catholic church, I'd tell the priest that there was an impediment to the marriage: so she "converted" and they married in his Baptist church). Ah but he is still a good Baptist: She won't accept his live in gay lover (or that he has spent oodles of money building and separating half our compound for a love nest) so he tells her that she is a disobedient wife and won't give financial support for her or her daughter

(and her objections this morning were met with "God love everyone". So I can steal my inheritance from my father's years of hard work to give to prostitutes etc. and still be welcomed home as a prodigal son. Get pull a "god loves everyone" version of the get out of jail free card, and you can cheat, steal, mistreat, etc and anyone who objects is evil for not forgiving.)

So you see why I object to Pope Francis' emphasis on "mercy".

It lets the sociopaths win.

On the other hand, a lot of people in the USA are immature, and taught in the media that marriage is similar to living together, but divorce is an easy out.

Alas, easy divorce merely encourages the sociopaths in our midst.

David Warren's take is thoughtful.

For secular divorce papers are easy enough to obtain, as often as required, in all modern jurisdictions — the State no longer believing it has an interest in preserving civilization. Holy Church still has an interest, however.
It is odd to argue — but then, I am odd — that an “annulment” (itself a shorthand term) should be made more, not less, difficult to obtain. Or that, even once granted, the Church should not then casually permit “remarriage” to parties who have sufficiently proved themselves unable to comprehend the Sacrament in the past. Surely, in an institution as large as the Catholic Church, someone should be lobbying for higher standards. This isn’t impossible; it was done in previous centuries.

CATHOLICS DEFENDING CATHOLICISM

Archbishop Burke's talk at Steubenville (via Father Z)




FatherZ also links to a Fox program comments



longer discussion HERE.... From my main blog.



Conservative dissent is brewing inside the Vatican.

for "conservative dissent", read Catholics who believe in what the church has always believed and are tired of being pushed around by self styled "reformers" who destroy the mass, taught our kids in Catholic schools that masturbation was normal and not sinful, and who looked the other way when priests schtupped their sons.

theWAPO site won't let me sign in (maybe because I have a foreign connection or won't pay to read them).

But here is GetReligion's take on the matter.

quick summary: Conservatives hate Pope Francis because he is the liberal that we – as in the mainstream press – say he is, even though, dang it, he hasn't actually changed any of the loathsome doctrines that we think are so terrible. But we love this pope's quips, as opposed to his actual sermons and writings, and we'll keep printing those quotes over and over.

Oh, and if your don't like the version of Pope Francis that we're describing, then you oppose this pope. Or words to that effect.

But the key is that conservatives inside the Vatican are planning a revolt of some kind. We know this because some of them are talking about "confusion" in the church, confusion that – this is crucial – has nothing to do with the media's consistent portrayal of the pope as a heroic liberal seeking doctrinal reform, although he hasn't changed any yet. And why does the pope keep urging everyone to go to confession? Doesn't Francis know that no one goes to confession anymore, because that would imply that sin is real?

they say that the Pope is only letting "both sides" argue in the open.

No big thing about that. But the press has decided who are the "good guys" and ignore or demonize those fuddy duddies who are Catholic, while making their average readers think that the church is changing so shut up if you protest.

But there are protests and pushbacks


 Ignatius Press (which is run by faithful Jesuits in the USA) is not only publishing books about what the church understands as being marriage, but has now published a book on how a small coterie of European bishops tried to hijack the Bishops' meeting on the family.




 This too was reported on EWTN which has a nightly news program.

there are a lot of prophecies in both Catholic and Pentecostal circles about how the Catholic Church may schism when the career type bishops (mainly in Europe and some in the USA) would try a takeover of the church to make it the superchurch subservient to the NWO.


Reminds me of the Arian kerfuffle, where the sides argued and several of the emperors of Constantinople took the Arian side... but Athanasius, a "conservative dissenter" opposed him, was perseccuted, and the rest is history. (Athanasius eventually won).

and in the USA, the revolt against the "reformers" who did an Alinsky type takeover of the bishop's bureaucracy and many religious orders started here:

 

Vatican conspiracy theories

A new book about the obvious manipulation of the bishop's synod on families.

Bad guys: german bishops.

Good guys: African bishop and Cardinal Pell.



a lot of Catholics think a similar conspiracy occurred in Vatican II: and after Vatican II, the shadow church types used "Vatican II" to press an even more extreme agenda without mentioning that what they were pushing wasn't in the documents at all...

Valtora and the refugee crisis

The Poem of the Man-God by Valtora is controversial,

The Vatican sort of condemned it because the author claimed it was based on visions (and not a novel), others say it is too sentimental, but other still love it, especially the Medjugorje supporters.

I found it on Archive.org if you want a free download.

so I did what I usually do when I have a long book and want to see if it's worth my time to read: I scan parts and scan the ending.

Well, the first part I opened was relating how Mary and Joseph were trying to manage to live as refugees in Egypt after fleeing from Herod.

Given the outcry against Syrian/African refugees in Europe, it makes one realize that maybe Jesus might not support the EU and Trump in such matters.