Reaction to the Family Synod
October 14, 2014
A READER writes:
The Synod’s report this week is punditry, not theology; it is intended for public consumption, loaded with liberal clichés and buzzwords. The entire world has already concluded on the basis of the midterm report alone that the Catholic Church has fully embraced the sexual revolution. Whatever comes next is practically irrelevant.
Did you know that this will be the first such gathering whose pronouncements will not to be recorded into Latin? What reason could there be for this, except to elide the need for precision in language and to permit “interpretations” which are directly at odds with what the Church has taught? It is a signal of a deliberate intellectual and spiritual rupture from the recorded Magisterium.
Someone should ask Bergoglio what he thinks of St. Thomas More’s attachment to Catholic doctrine on marriage?
By the lights of today’s “Church Fathers,” More was a fool for going under the executioner’s axe, and a bad person for refusing to “accept and value” Henry VIII’s deep contributions to the Church, whatever those might have been.
I no longer see a way to rectify what I see in Rome with the Catholic Church of the ages.
My mother has been openly expressing her belief that Francis is a “false Pope.” I cannot tell you what a remarkable turn this is, considering that she would never in a million years confess to being an actual sedevacantist. She’s a Director of Religious Education for the —- Diocese and very much a member of the EWTN/Catholic Answers/This Rock set.
Recently, I told her that the only difference between a Traditionalist and a person like herself is his view of at what point it became necessary to resist the Revolution. I told her that a Traditionalist thinks the Church went off the deep end fifty years ago, whereas she is only willing to see it happening now. I challenged her to consider that the Traditionalists were right way back then, and that evil had been set loose within the Church even so far back as the Council itself, considering that all their warnings and all their resistance to novelty have since been vindicated.
Alas, she came into the Church in the 1970’s, and her whole Catholic experience, which has been central to her sense of self since her conversion, was coextensive with the papacy of John Paul II, whom she still adores. If there is any good at all to come from this diabolical sham of a papacy, it will be to force millions of Catholics like her to see the bitter truth, or at least come closer to it.
The ecclesiastical authorities in Rome are deliberately promulgating what is contrary to Catholic teaching. This hard fact, impossible any more to deny, has consequences for the faithful which I hardly can fathom.
