Unless they are deliberately trying to drive people from the Faith. Recall Conquest’s 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.
The USCCB: The Most Useless Organization in History
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 41 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
What’s wrong with the Seven Capital Virtues, chastity, temperance, charity, diligence, patience, kindness, and humility? Not meaningless?
“A new language always reflects a new point of view, and the gradual unconscious popularization of new words, or of old words used in new ways, is a sure sign of a profound change in people’s articulation of the world.”
–Allan Bloom
People are wising up to those heretics. This “synod” is just such a joke. My priest is forced to attend the local version of this. He told me and could barely contain his “enthusiasm”.
“Innovative Outlook, Inclusivity, Open-Mindedness, Listening, Accompaniment, Co-Responsibility, Dialogue…”
Sounds like a forced at work LGBTQ+ seminar because -it is.
Welcome to Sodom-ality.
If it were useless, that would be an improvement.
Synodality will be the third in the hat trick of theological cancers (after dialogue and corrosive ecumenism) which ensures Catholicism will be on a ventilator for the rest of the 21st Century.
Amen to all here. I keep searching the Gospels (and all of Scripture, for that matter) for the teachings about dialogue and synodality and ecumenism, and I guess I’m just not smart enough to find them.
Since it’s inception the left has taken control of key positions in this org. From there it is easy to pressure any who go against the crowd. Whatever happened to a bishop running his own diocese without the burden of having to defend himself against majority error?
USCCB-Unholy Serpents Conspiring Catholic Bishops
I am hoping that the Holy Spirit does act through the laity, by causing them to confirm traditional truths (at least in most parts even if the dissent in minor things.)
If that happens I expect that the bishops will suddenly shut up about “sydonality.”
Spending money donated for their 2021 2023 mtgs. to fulfill the donors’ purpose to ‘mess’ with minds of the weak and innocent – with no apparent regard for helping them to Heaven.
The irony of this tweet is that this synod on synodality process is supposed to be characterized by “listening,” yet this tweet demonstrates how little “listening” actually happens. Our culture is imploding all around us, millions face dire economic uncertainty, the policies related to branch covidianism are tearing society apart at the seams and creating a bio-medical apartheid, the church is bleeding members left and right while most in the hierarchy seem clueless at best and complicit at worst, and buzzwords from a lame corporate culture building course are what is on offer. My suggestion would be to avoid the trust fall exercise.
The new “Meeting on Meetings”, “Talks on Talking “, etc. The Bishops and Cardinals are set for life . They couldn’t spend the assets at their disposal if they never collected another dime from the pewsitters. Obviously, this is not all of them,but unfortunately an overwhelming majority.
I regard the pronouncements of the USCCB about the same way I rely on the Oscars to select films to watch, i.e. I don’t much.
There are no four letter words strong enough to describe the USCCB. It is an insult to working class Catholics who pay for its palatial headquarters and all the make work projects within.
It is an insult to working class Catholics who pay for its palatial headquarters and all the make work projects within.
I don’t imagine the number of positions you have at diocesan chanceries could survive a serious audit, either. One thing that bugs me is that you have ordained clergy employed at the chancery. You should only do that if they have to be kept away from the laity.
“One thing that bugs me is that you have ordained clergy employed at the chancery. You should only do that if they have to be kept away from the laity.”
A dozen amens to that. And employment in chanceries and then at the Big Conference has become the mirror image of the promotional track employed by large organizations everywhere, whether corporate, military, NGO’s, etc. Just look at the curricula vitae of a random selection of, say, fifty US bishops, and see how many administrative titles they held on their way to securing their good fortune on the dime of the faithful. I may well be wrong, it happens a lot, but I would bet there aren’t many who have been plucked from a thriving parish and handed the crook and miter.
It’s enough to make me think popular election of bishops might not be such a bad thing.