Thursday, August 10, 2023

My latest column: “We Must Resist The Falsehoods Of The October Synod”


August 10, 2023

By FR. KEVIN M. CUSICK

Fantasies such as women “priests” or “deacons,” the possibility of marriage between two men or two women, being born in the “wrong” body and other chimeras obsess and entertain the left, as well as the poorly instructed who cannot think for themselves. The successive synods in the Church under Francis serve as Trojan horses to worm these make-believe stories into parishes on the pretext that they are matters of “doctrine” pertaining to the faith.

These fantasies have been resurfacing since the social upheaval of the 1960s, which seeped into the Church in the post-conciliar era.

Another fantasy and distraction that enabled their spread is the notion that we are here to change the Church, rather than the opposite. Vatican II, in the popular imagination, quickly transmogrified from a new approach to changing humanity by welcoming them into the Church into changing the Church instead of sanctifying humanity.

When questioned about her faith, by the bishops who later sentenced her to burning at the stake, St. Joan of Arc responded, “About Jesus Christ and the Church, I simply know they’re just one thing, and we shouldn’t complicate the matter.” If, as this holy woman rightly claimed, the Church and Christ are simply the “same” reality, the idea of changing the Church should immediately appear as the absurdity it is: no less unreasonable than a proposal to change God Himself.

The Synod agendas are reheated leftovers from the 1960s that have been served up repeatedly in the last 60 years. Whether this current pontificate, in which they are being administered resuscitative oxygen, is the last gasp for such castles in the air only time will tell. Some of us may not live to see the ultimate restoration. 

Read the rest: https://thewandererpress.com/catholic/news/our-catholic-faith/we-must-resist-the-falsehoods-of-the-october-synod/

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