In another instance of the Pope being Catholic, Papa Francis has smacked down the schismatic Synodal Path.
The Vatican on Thursday slammed the brakes on a German progressive movement that aims to give lay Catholics a say in doctrinal matters such as homosexuality and women priests, saying this risked causing a schism in the universal Church.
A short but stern statement said the so-called “Synodal Path” could not assume it had the authority to instruct bishops on doctrine or morality. The movement’s co-chairs responded that they made no such claim and expressed surprise.
Synodal witches mad.
The movement, a regular gathering of equal numbers of bishops and ordinary German Catholics, has been outspoken in its demands for the Vatican to let priests marry, let women become priests and for the Church to bless same-sex relationships.
Also witches: “Why so uptight, bro? We’re not infringing on your supreme moral teaching authority. We’re just agitating against infallibly defined doctrines like the sinfulness of sodomy and the male-only priesthood!”
That level of delusion or duplicity – take your pick – is only possible when a group is altogether insulated from reality.
And wads of government cash are the best insulator.
Germany’s Church, though far from the world’s largest, has an outsized influence because of the enormous wealth it derives from publicly collected church taxes. Its largest diocese, Cologne, is wealthier than the Vatican.
For those who are wondering why much of the Catholic hierarchy in the US remains frustratingly out of touch, consider that the US Conference of Catholic Bishops gets 40% of its funding from the government.
A great deal of speculation in dissident circles revolves around why so many people cooperate with a racket as evil as the Death Cult. The best estimates place the number of outright Cultists at 20% of the population. But that 20% gets another 70% to go along by controlling the cultural, governmental, and financial institutions.
And that 70% admits of varying degrees of and motives for cooperation. To be sure, one contingent acts from pure greed, making cynical alliances with the Cult because of its close proximity to the money printer.
But most of the Conservative pundits, corporate leaders, bishops who play the Generals to the Cult’s Globetrotters make what they think are rational compromises.
I’m still owning the libs by telling 90% of the truth …
My fiduciary duty trumps my responsibility to society …
If we lose our tax-exempt status, how can we keep our hospitals open?
The latter is the jam the Church in the West now finds herself in. Our ruling mobocracy is in effect saying, “Nice schools, charities, and hospitals you got there. Be a shame if something happened to them because you talked out of turn.”
Now, the bishops’ fear of offending the cultic cabal that runs everything is understandable. But they should remember that negotiating with terrorists never ends well. Paying the blackmailers just means they’ll soon be back asking for more.
Closing the hospitals would plunge the US healthcare system into crisis. Shuttering the charities would deal a massive blow to the poor. But if uncompromising adherence to Christ’s teachings would provoke those outcomes, better to follow Christ and let the Death Cult own the disaster.
Parochial schools are now just public schools with crosses on the walls, so getting rid of them will be no great loss.
The lesson: Don’t take money from people who hate Jesus.
And don’t give it to people who hate you.
Alleluia!
I will confess that on occasions I get pangs of anxiety about the stuff going on in Rome, but clear, concise, orthodox teaching and reminders of teaching does my heart good. Wow, it’s almost like God is all-powerful or something! More seriously, though, I am trying to put into practice the complete entrustment and surrender of my worries and fears (beyond the point where I can directly plan for and combat them, of course) into the hands of the Almighty God, for while we are but weak and foolish men, He is God, who can do all things. On a related note, this realisation took a massive weight off my shoulders in my late teens, as during my reversion to the Faith, I realised that everything was not “on me” – I did not have to Save the World myself, and a good thing to, because I was and am obviously unequal to the task.
The Supreme Pontiff will never bind you in conscience on pain of mortal sin to an error in a matter of faith or morals. That is the guarantee made by Christ and enforced by the Holy Spirit.
Individual bishops or groups of bishops kissing up to the state for brownie points from the Death Cult? That’s a horse of a different color.
Any bishop who wants to get serious about re-evangelizing the West, including the Holy Father, should forbid any Catholic parish, organization, or diocese from accepting government money. At least until Western governments stop pressuring the Church to cooperate with grave, intrinsic evil. If that means cancelling some contracts and closing down some schools and hospitals, so be it.
Amen, brother.
The more this all goes on, the warier I become of so-called “trad” catholicism whose purpose seems to be spreading the talking points of anti-catholics in a vague, catholic-friendly package (“the pope is evil, the jesuits are an insidious group destroying the west, you need to join X schismatic or alt group or you’re not really Christian, bro, the divine mercy don’t real,” etc.)
The fact that some of these people (not naming names) also seem *really* stoked on astrology (‘bro, it’s not the BAD astrology, we’re just looking at sings in the stars to predict future events, maybe kinda but we’re not DEFINITVELY saying anything at all, bro, it’s just tradition bro, etc) is kind of an indicator that something’s gone very wrong.
The clincher for me was hearing that some online tradcaths reject the canonizations of JP II an Paul VI. Contradicting an infallible exercise of the Magisterium so as to make Christ a liar, because you dislike a saint’s politics, is not only shallow but foolish.
Propagating the Devil’s own lies to own the libs.
Considering The Red Guy apparently has weapons-grade meltdowns over the polish pope, I find it hard to belive the source of the anti JPII narrative didn’t come from below.
https://aleteia.org/2016/10/30/how-john-paul-ii-infuriates-the-devil/3/
I’ve heard it said, and I have to agree: “Judas was the first Bishop with a government grant.”
(attributed to Ven. Fulton Sheen, but I couldn’t verify)
Also the first person to receive the Eucharist unworthily and leave Mass early.