Burn of the Day
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
The more the Papal talk on synodality, the more is meant Papal autocracy. Leo may be nicer, kinder, gentler than his heretical predecessor, but he’s still essentially the same.
my favorite Lewis Carroll quote–apt on almost any occasion.
Reading the book “The Jesuits” I’ve realized that synodality is derived from liberation theology.
They both use the same phrases meant to confuse and dissolve the hierarchical Church.
Googled the relationship and discovered this priest was on to the connection years ago.
https://padreperegrino.org/2023/06/synodalit/
Chef Word Salad at it again…..
The term “Synodality” seemingly came out of nowhere to become the default model of the Church. I know Europeans are big on this, they also thought Pope Francis was a genius (I know this because I’ve been to international Catholic meetings many times, talk about alternate reality!) It really does have the feel of a small group of committed politicians forcing their thinking upon the Church. At some point, there has to be a reforming Pope, who just sweeps away all the claptrap and goes back to what the faith should be.
from the Catechism of the Catholic Church;
The Church’s ultimate trial
675 Before Christ’s second coming the Church must pass through a final trial that will shake the faith of many believers. [Cf. Lk 18:8; Mt 24:12] The persecution that accompanies her pilgrimage on earth [Cf. Lk 21:12; Jn 15:19-20] will unveil the “mystery of iniquity” in the form of a religious deception offering men an apparent solution to their problems at the price of apostasy from the truth. The supreme religious deception is that of the Antichrist, a pseudo-messianism by which man glorifies himself in place of God and of his Messiah come in the flesh. [Cf. 2 Th 2:4-12; 1 Th 5:2-3; 2 Jn 7; 1 Jn 2:1 8, 22] [769]
I do believe that we, as the mystical body of Christ, are on our Via De la Rosa.
St. Peter denied knowing the Christ.
Judas Iscariot sold him out.
We, as the Church, will be going through more difficult times but Our Lady is near. She prays and intercedes for us as we tried on.
….as we trod on.
He looks like he’s thinking: “I can’t believe they’re making me read this nonsense … Who wrote this?!?”
I have to admit, the whole Synod on Synodality jargonizing makes me think of an ecclesiastical version of New Coke. It must be a good idea to somebody somewhere, but most likely not where it matters.
Found myself this weekend praying the Rosary Fatima Prayer meditating on this Pope… not accidental.
V2 was about the Laity…
OK, we’d like to knee receiving the Eucharist, on the tongue, and be able to attend TLM mass if we prefer that.
Usquequo, Domine?
The higher echelons of Freemasonry in our home. The lavender Mafia in our home.
These are enemies of God and our duty is to pray for them.
A time may be coming when the Vatican tries to change the wording in the liturgy at the Consecration of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass.
I would not doubt for a moment that this change will be founded upon the Synodality of the Synods which “seeks” the unity of all.
When this takes place the abomination of desolation has revealed itself as only a prideful Lucifer could fashion.
The ape of God won’t settle for anything less.
Context: Leo XIV was addressing a group of choirs, and he was using harmony as a metaphor. There’s nothing about this that deserves mockery, except maybe for clunky sentence structure in translation.
Ah yes… harmony.. everything will be ok because “where Peter is…” . Never Mind where Peter has been for 2000 years…
That’s not Catholic!
(And saying so isn’t mockery.)
What’s not Catholic? Mockery and contempt toward the head of the Church? We could agree on that point at least.
Oh, well … That clears it up. I suppose if he was using ‘harmony as a metaphor’ then this isn’t a nonsensical word salad at all. Just perfectly legitimate Catholic synodalism being presented by the Vicar of Christ.
Mockery and contempt toward the head of the Church?
Time to brush up on the history of the Church Pinky, beginning with Saint Paul. Criticism of popes, often strident and deserved, is as Catholic as boring homilies and Gregorian chant.
Saints Paul, Athanasius, and Catherine of Siena would have licked the dirt in front of their popes rather than risk appearing contemptuous. This is Luther and Calvin stuff.
Obedience to Christ, the Magisterium and the Papacy means rejecting Synodality.
Galatians 1:8
“ But even if we or an angel[a] from heaven should proclaim to you a gospel contrary to what we proclaimed to you, let that one be accursed!”
I really can’t see St. Paul licking the dirt in front of St. Peter, I think you may be exaggerating a bit, Pinky
In the same vein, if St. Peter ever produced a pile of nonsense this directionless for instruction of the faithful, Paul would have most certainly not only called him out on it but he might’ve even written a letter to the Galatians to make sure everyone heard about it!
Saint Paul:
11 But when Cephas was come to Antioch, I withstood him to the face, because he was to be blamed. 12 For before that some came from James, he did eat with the Gentiles: but when they were come, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing them who were of the circumcision. 13 And to his dissimulation the rest of the Jews consented, so that Barnabas also was led by them into that dissimulation. 14 But when I saw that they walked not uprightly unto the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas before them all: If thou, being a Jew, livest after the manner of the Gentiles, and not as the Jews do, how dost thou compel the Gentiles to live as do the Jews?
2 Galatians 11-14
St. Paul submitted to the authority of the Apostles. He learned from them. When a question came up about Jewish law for Christianity, he was among the delegates to the Council of Jerusalem. He never spoke against their teaching. One time, when St. Peter was acting inappropriately, he stood up to him and corrected him.
Protestants like to conflate the Council of Jerusalem and the correction at Antioch. It makes it look like Peter was wrong on theology.
Again though, 99% of the people throughout history who have criticized the popes have been wrong, and 100% who disrespected them.