This video is a must-see for all observant Catholics. It is an explanation by Gavin Ashenden, an Anglican convert to Catholicism and the Associate Editor of the Catholic Herald. This hearty soul has taken the trouble to slog through the entire instrumentum laboris for Synodality (something this writer gave up about three-quarters through), recently released, which lays out what the synodists have in mind for the future of the Catholic Church. It is ghastly stuff.
In essence, the future Catholic Church, according to the synodists, will have little concern over an individual’s sinful behavior, past or present and will be far more concerned with engagement with him via “conversation” and “acceptance.” The Catholic Church of the future will become a “feel-good” institution, where the words of Jesus will be reinterpreted as progressive relativistic mush.
What is behind this dreadful morass, unsurprisingly, is the LGBTQ+ movement, as if there were among them a large percentage of Catholics, or Catholics to be, which is highly doubtful. Most observant Catholics who are gay likely know what the Catechism expects of them and live their lives accordingly and quietly. So in all, what the Synodality is, is a woke display of virtue signaling. As Mr Ashenden nicely puts it, it is
. . . colored and distorted by the endlessly repeated aphorisms of subjective relativism immersed in constant therapeutic truisms.
We should still beware, though. Should the synodists be successful in pushing this wretched stuff through, we well might see the beginnings of schism in the Catholic Church, as it is unlikely observant Catholics, of all kinds, who reverently practice their religion will want anything to do with the heterodox claptrap the synodists so eagerly promote.
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A footnote: by coincidence (or maybe not), here is the Gospel reading for yesterday’s TLM Mass, the Seventh Sunday after Pentecost. Our pastor in his sermon mentioned it was removed from the Novus Ordo lectionary. Hardly a surprise.
St. Matthew 7. 15-21:
At that time: Jesus said to His disciples, Beware of false prophets, who come to
you in the clothing of sheep, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. By their fruits you shall know them. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit, and the evil tree bringeth forth evil fruit. A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can an evil tree bring forth good fruit. Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit, shall be cut
down, and shall be cast into the fire. Wherefore by their fruits you shall know them. Not every one that saith to Me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom
of heaven; but he that doeth the will of My Father who is in heaven, he shall enter into the kingdom of heaven.
h/t William J. Tighe.
The Taos Tatler 