Cardinal Zen Explains it All

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Although Pope Leo XIV had initially informed the Cardinals that four topics would be taken up, upon their arrival at the consistory the members of the Sacred College were told that, owing to time constraints, they would be asked to select only two. They chose “the Synod and Synodality” and the mission of the Church in light of Pope Francis’s 2013 apostolic exhortation on the proclamation of the Gospel, Evangelii Gaudium.

At its core, the intervention argues that the synodal process was not merely flawed but tightly managed in a way that deprived bishops of genuine deliberative freedom and of their rightful authority as successors of the apostles. Cardinal Zen also sharply denounced what he sees as the instrumental use of spiritual language, warning that constant appeals to the Holy Spirit are being deployed to sanctify predetermined outcomes, as if the Spirit could be expected to contradict the Church’s two-thousand-year Tradition.

The intervention then broadens its warning to the wider Church. By assigning the Final Document a paradoxical status—magisterial yet “not strictly normative,” authoritative yet open to divergent local interpretations—the process risks doctrinal incoherence and ecclesial fragmentation. The cardinal cautions that this approach mirrors the path that led to division within Anglicanism and undermines Catholic credibility in ecumenical dialogue, particularly with the Orthodox Churches, for whom synodality has always meant the real authority of bishops acting together and walking together with Jesus Christ.

Zen knows a con game when he sees one.  Synod has been stripped of its meaning and used as a tool to replace Catholicism with trendy Leftism.  That was the goal of Pope Francis.  I hope that Pope Leo will not follow him on that downward path.