Father Z examines a dropping from the mind of the Cardinal who is running the current stacked Synod for the Pope:
The man who runs the Synod (“walking together”), Mario Card. Grech.
“It is a grace that today Christendom is no more. Because we felt we had arrived: the Church as a” perfect society “. And whoever is perfect doesn’t feel the need to seek, to improve, to convert, to set out on the path listening to the Spirit, wheras this is the Gospel.”
“È una grazia, che oggi non ci sia più la cristianità. Perché ci sentivamo arrivati: la Chiesa come “società perfetta”. E chi è perfetto non sente il bisogno di cercare, di migliorare, di convertirsi, di mettersi in cammino in ascolto dello Spirito, mentre questo è il Vangelo».
By “la cristianità”, he means “Christendom”, not just generic “Christianity”. He absolutely would think that “Christianity” is no more: Rather, our separated brethren and sistren are ahead of us on the cammino and we have a lot of catching up to do! He means “Christendom”, no question, and my Romans agree.
We deny his absurd premise, of course: Christians of Christendom never thought themselves “perfect”.
Aren’t writers from those dark days constantly criticized by more woke moderns as being pessimistic about man, concerned about outdated things like “sin” and “propitiation”? If the liturgical worship of Christendom, as it was raised to God for a thousand and more years, was concerned about guilt, sin and propitiation, that suggests that Christians didn’t see themselves as not needing to change.
Moreover, that is not what was meant by “perfect society”.
If Grech knows where the ecclesiological formulation “perfect society” comes from, given the present Traditionis Open-Season ethos he is perhaps taking a cheap shot the post-Tridentine ecclesiology of figures such as St. Robert Bellarmine, a Doctor of the Church… which Grech ain’t… and anyone who values all that sort of stuff, like traditional Mass and sacraments.
Grech was Card. Baldisseri’s Number Two at the Pachamama Amazon Synod (“walking together”) and he was one of the writers of the Post-Synodal (“walking together”) Exhortation. In October 2020, by the way, when COVID-1984 was ramping up, churches were being closed and people were being denied the sacraments, Grech said in an interview with Antonio “2+2=5” Spadaro, Jesuit editor of La Civiltà Cattolica and adminstrator of a site in honor of Pier Vittorio Tondelli:
It is of concern that someone feels lost outside of the Eucharistic or worship context, for it shows an ignorance of other ways of engaging with the mystery. This not only indicates that there is a certain spiritual illiteracy, but is proof of the inadequacy of current pastoral practice. It is very likely that in the recent past our pastoral activity has sought to lead to the sacraments and not to lead – through the sacraments – to Christian life.
Go here to read the rest. The only thing Catholic about the cronies of the Pope is their overt anti-Catholicism. This pontificate lives out Conquest’s third law:
The simplest way to explain the behavior of any bureaucratic organization is to assume that it is controlled by a cabal of its enemies.
There is but one comment that jumped into my mind, after reading this–still more proof of the un-Catholic shenanigans coming from Rome–and that is from Christ Himself; “You are either with Me or against Me.” To debate them is to give them dangerous credibility.
Let’s Go, Brandon!
1 Oct 2021: Never Yet Melted blog, “How do you brainwash the poorly-scientifically-informed masses into accepting claims of imminent climate catastrophe for which we are all to blame by indulging in the various comforts and conveniences served up by modern industrial civilization?
“You do it by subjecting them to a continual barrage of entirely suppositious scare stories alluding to an endless series of untoward consequences that may, perhaps, possibly, arrive very soon if you fail to bow to the Luddite dismantle-modern-life-and-go-back-to-the-Middle-Ages agenda and surrender vastly more money and regulatory authority to International Statism.”
Agreed, you can’t debate them. Also, it’s increasingly clear you can’t live with them. God’s instructions to the Israelites as they entered the Promised Land begins to make more and more sense. Personally, i wouldn’t even want this pagan’s flocks.
Great article today on “Surviving “Synodality”” in Crisis Mag.
https://www.crisismagazine.com/2021/surviving-synodality
I fear this call to be “humble” and “accompany” to those in same sex arrangements, with “synodality”, will mean a further eclipse of the church.