Synodality: The emperor is naked but don't say it out loud

 What every believing Catholic has noticed, but has been ignored by the MSM and much of the compliant Catholic press, is that the synodality stuff is a sham.

FirstThings magazine gets it right:

The NAFD takes for granted that there is a tension between being inclusive, welcoming, and hospitable and being faithful to Christ,,,

 

The just-below-the-surface assumption here is that fidelity to the Church’s teaching needs to be re-imagined and re-worked so that various people will not feel that they are being excluded and rejected.

 

Church teaching is put on trial.

Yup. We sort of noticed but hey, who listens to the deplorable ordinary Catholic? 

Rejection of that teaching is accorded pride of place. What is going on here?

Only the heretics and prideful reformers are listened to, because this is a sham. 

Women who want to receive Holy Orders, people who are unhappy that their immoral sexual acts are categorized as being gravely sinful, divorced people who remarry outside the Church and want to receive Holy Communion—all of them claim that they are being unfairly treated. They claim that Church teaching is hurtful and un-Christian, and they will only feel fully welcomed and affirmed by the Church when their desires and actions are recognized as legitimate, and the Church changes her teaching.

Yup. The church is about welcoming sinners: But as sinners, called to repent. So we have to change that part about repent because hey, saying that is a micro aggression. 

The NAFD considers all this to be up for discussion, which means that those pushing for doctrinal change are being treated as prophets needing to be heeded, and not as heretics needing to be rebuked.

Italics mine. 

The synodal process is an exercise in “platforming” the grievances of selected “Catholic” interest groups that unapologetically reject the Church’s teaching. '

 

The claim that this out-in-the-open subversion is the work of the Holy Spirit speaking to the Church today is a gambit to insulate this revolution from criticism.

 

What is happening is an attempted power grab by those who want to change the Catholic Church’s teaching according to their worldly views about power, sex, and anything else they decide is important. That this is happening is a scandal and a disaster. We must pray that God spare us from this calamity.

that article is by Father Murray, who dares to say similar things on EWTN... which is why the PC bishops hate EWTN. 

The latest distortion is the Pope now deciding selected lay people can join the synod of bishops. So who chooses them? The anti Pope Francis of course.

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