The Holy See has produced a Preparatory Document for the 2018 Synod of Bishops on the theme “Young People, the Faith and Vocational Discernment.”
Those looking for a mortification opportunity will find a careful read of this 11,000+ word tome more than sufficient. For the rest of you, I’ve taken the bullet and am offering here the following overview.
First, let’s not be naïve: If we learned anything in 2014-2015, it’s that the “God of Surprises” and his merry band of modernists already have an outcome in mind, and come Hell or high water, they aim to achieve it.
The entirety of the preparatory process is really just an exercise in propaganda designed, not to prepare the bishops for the Synod, but to prepare the rank and file for the Bergoglian garbage they’re going to be fed at its conclusion.
In fact, they practically admit as much in the text:
“The document, therefore, is not exhaustive, but serves as a kind of guide to encourage further discussion, whose fruits will be available only at the conclusion of the Synod.”
Even so, there are some noteworthy observations to be made by reviewing the Preparatory Document as they give us further insight into the degree to which present day Rome is utterly disinterested in the actual mission of the Church.
The document states that the Synod is being charged with examining how the Church “can lead young people to recognize and accept the call to the fullness of life and love.”
And how, pray tell, will the bishops go about achieving this sappily worded task?
By renewing its commitment to the Divine Commission given by Christ the King; baptizing and teaching everything whatsoever that He commanded?
No, that won’t do!
Rather, the Synod intends to “ask young people to help her in identifying the most effective ways to announce the Good News today.”
The document continues:
“By listening to young people, the Church will once again hear the Lord speaking in today’s world.”
And here you thought it was the Church that speaks in the Lord’s name to all peoples, old and young!
Incidentally, if you’re assuming that “young people” here refers to adolescents and college-age persons, you are most certainly mistaken, as we are informed:
“In the following pages, the word ‘youth’ refers to persons who are roughly 16 to 29 years old.”
That’s right; 29 year old “youth.”
As preposterous as that is, it’s actually a step in the right direction given that World Youth Day is billed as “a pilgrimage experience targeted to those ages 16 to 35.”
Seriously folks, it is entirely obvious that these people are detached, not just from the mission of the Church, but from reality itself.
For these men of the Council where phenomenology ruled, “reality” is rather personal and even fluid; its essence defined in terms of encounter and experience.
As such, one can hardly be surprised when the document states that “gender determines different perceptions of reality.”
In other words, the idea of objective reality is passé in modern day Rome, which, of course, only makes sense given that Jesus Christ is the fullness of truth and they have little genuine interest in His affairs.
If all that has been said isn’t both predictable and pathetic enough, the Captains of Newchurch that wrote this document went on to suggest that the Church needs to listen, not only to Catholic youth, but to the practitioners of all sorts of false religions:
“It should not be overlooked that many societies are increasingly multi-cultural and multi-religious … [The situation] can provide for increased possibilities for fruitful dialogue and mutual enrichment.”
In case it wasn’t clear enough already, the reason these fools are looking to other religions for enrichment is simple; thy are dyed-in-the-wool modernists, who steadfastly believe in what Pope St. Pius X described as “vital immanence.”
As the Holy Father tells us:
The modernist believes that the first actuation of religion is due to a certain necessity or impulsion; originating in a movement of the heart, which movement is called a sentiment. In the religious sentiment one must recognise a kind of intuition of the heart which puts man in immediate contact with the very reality of God. They assert, therefore, the existence of a real experience, and one of a kind that surpasses all rational experience. What is to prevent such experiences from being met within every religion? And with what right will Modernists deny the truth of an experience affirmed by a follower of Islam? With what right can they claim true experiences for Catholics alone? (cf Pascendi 7, 14)
It is for this reason that the men in Rome struggle with the very idea of objective reality and eschew the mission of teaching truths that are in no way subject to experience.
By contrast, they are sincerely committed to creating a program designed merely to excite the emotions:
“The search for ways to reawaken courage and the impulses of the heart must necessarily take into account that the person of Jesus and the Good News proclaimed by him continue to fascinate many young people.”
And please, don’t let the Divine name-dropping fool you.
Remember, these men are so dialed into Jesus that they’re looking to Jews, Muslims and perhaps even Wiccans for “enrichment,” and they’ve already admitted that they need the advice of “young people” in order to discover how to announce the Good News effectively.
Bottom line; they have no interest in the Gospel. They’re modernists; it’s all about feelings and emotions. The document goes on:
“To believe is to listen to the Spirit and, with all one’s powers of mind and emotion, to dialogue with the Word, who is the Way, the Truth and the Life (cf. Jn 14:6) and to learn to trust in the Word, ’embodying It’ in the concrete instances of everyday life, in moments when the cross is encountered and when one experiences the joy in seeing the signs of resurrection, just as the ‘beloved disciple’ did. This challenge must be faced by each Christian community and the individual believer. The place for this dialogue is the conscience.”
Where, one wonders, is the teaching Church in all of this? (HINT: Start your search somewhere around 1958 or so.)
Just as one might expect, His Humbleness is quoted in various places throughout the document.
For instance:
“‘Recognizing’ [one’s vocation] concerns how life’s happenings, the people one meets, and the words one hears or reads affect the interior life, namely, the various ‘desires, feelings and emotions’ (Amoris Laetitia, 143) … The stage of ‘recognizing’ focuses on the ability to listen and on one’s feelings and emotions … The Spirit of God works in the heart of every man and woman through feelings and desires that are bound to ideas, images and plans.”
Always with the feelings and emotions, these modernists!
Here’s another good one:
“Human freedom, despite the fact that it always needs to be purified and perfected, never loses the fundamental capacity to recognize the good and carrying it out. ‘Human beings, while capable of the worst, are also capable of rising above themselves, choosing again what is good, and making a new start, despite their mental and social conditioning’” (Laudato Si’, 205).
Nonsense. Apart from grace, man has not the capacity to recognize the good and carry it out.
And we’re the Neo-Pelagians!
The document continues:
“Interpreting desires and inner movements requires an honest confrontation, in light of God’s Word, with the moral demands of the Christian life, always seeking to apply them in the concrete situation that is being experienced.”
Again, note the modernist focus on “inner movements.”
As for the “moral demands of the Christian life,” that almost sounds Catholic until you realize that Amoris Laetitia tells us everything we need to know about the impact “concrete situations” have on said demands according to these characters.
Naturally, the fear among those who still harbor a sensus Catholicus is that the Synod is really intended as a means of paving the way for changes to the priesthood; e.g., abandoning or otherwise revising the discipline of celibacy.
The text of the Preparatory Document doesn’t give us much in this regard, but it does raise a number of red flags indicating that the “God of Surprises” has something up his sleeve.
“Promoting truly free and responsible choices, fully removed from practices of the past, remains the goal of every serious pastoral vocational programme.”
There has been a bull’s eye on the “practices of the past” since 13 March 2013. As such, one cannot be surprised that the document goes on to caution against “passively respecting norms.” It also stresses the necessity of “abandoning the rigid attitudes,” and get this:
“… leaving behind a framework which makes people feel hemmed-in; and ‘going out,’ by giving up a way of acting as Church which at times is out-dated.”
Yeah, that tradition thing sure is stifling!
There’s more in the text that stands out, but at this I think we’ve tortured ourselves quite enough for one sitting.
In the end, the men in Rome, to quote the immortal words of Dennis Green (fans of the NFL know who he is), “are who we thought they were!”
They are modernists. Change is coming. The Synod is a joke, and the punchline has likely already been written.
Thanks for the reading and the report.
The only surprise is that the Synod will be likely worse than we fear.
You read this and it isn’t even Lent.
Offer it up 🙂
They must have an app where they type in heresy and it is converted to deceptive, pious-sounding babble. Unfortunately, the average Catholic thinks it sounds profoundly spiritual, even though they don’t understand a word of it.
Louie, for reading this pathetic tome, I hearby grant you one month indulgence.
It is time to stop ascribing to papal encyclicals and synodal documents issued from Vatican II land as having any binding authority. They do not and hardly ever did. The simply novel opinions of Popes are not protected in any way by the Holy Spirit and are not “infallible” pronouncements, no matter how much they may claim to be so. Jesus commanded His disciples to baptize and make disciples from among the nations, teaching them to obey all He had taught them – and that’s it, everything else is sugary theological fantasies.
I no longer expect anything aka Catholic to come out of the post-conciliar pseudo-church in general and this papacy in particular. When I turn on the water faucet, should I expect to see orange juice come out? If you don’t expect it, you are never disappointed.
Take a look at the Cardinals pictured for this blog. I feel sleepy and bored just looking at them.
Yea, a big, fat, ugly modernist joke is on the horizon. I wonder if Cardinal Burke will be involved. That thought is enough to make my head explode. Truly there would be a sadomasochistic element at play.
Meaning, Cardinal Burke and the three others could take care of the heresy of AL today, perhaps averting another sham synod.
1 John 4-6
Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God; for many false prophets have gone out into the world. 2 By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, 3 and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. And this is the spirit of the antichrist, of which you have heard that it is coming; and now it is already in the world. 4 Little children, you are from God, and have conquered them; for the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world. 5 They are from the world; therefore what they say is from the world, and the world listens to them. 6 We are from God. Whoever knows God listens to us, and whoever is not from God does not listen to us. From this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.
I can’t stand these people, these effeminate impostors. The only thing they are aver clear about is ambiguity.
Am I missing something here? The quote from Laudato Si talks about human freedom never loses the capacity to recognize good and carry it out. In AL though, it talks about the possibility of recognizing the “good” of getting out of a bad situation (adultery), but not being able to carry it out. Doesn’t this seem contradictory?
It would seem that the platform known as, “Synod”, is simply a staging ground for the implementation of all things Antichrist, as what else could the church of the Antichrist, all dressed up Catholic, while at once utterly and completely devoid of any and all things Christ Jesus, parlay onto what is left of the sensus fidelium? Our Lady of LaSalette forewarned us that, “The Church will be in eclipse, the world will be in dismay.” Further, “The Church will have a frightful crisis.” Again, what could possibly be more “frightful” than having “woken up one day” and realized that the Church in which you were baptized, received holy communion and penance, confirmation, and married in 29 years ago during Lent with a Lutheran minister present on the altar accompanying the “Catholic priest”, is not the Church of Jesus the Christ, Son of the Living God, rather the Church of His Adversary, at once only dressed up Catholic. The perfect deception. Lucifer placed this creature beast thing in such close juxtaposition, that were it not inverted in its all but perfect parallel understanding, it would be perfectly invisible. We witness the inversion of Truth from all the “Popes” since 1958. Lucifer presents himself as an angel of light and so his minions also do. John XXIII-JPII, anti-Popes, Ratzinger and Bergoglio, false Popes. The Holy Roman Pontiff is in eclipse, with the Bride of Christ as His Church. It’s simply common sense. Any, every single other explanation, is an attempt to place a square peg into a round hole causing utter cognitive dissonance; a conundrum which could only find its wellspring in the mind of the diabolical.
Our Blessed Dominus Deus, Jesus the Christ, in Matthew 16: 18, did not promise us that we would have a visible Vicar until the end of time, as He promised we would have His Church, whose Head He Is. He didn’t promise us that we would have His Holy Sacraments, all of them readily available throughout the Church universal, until the end of time, only His Church. In that understanding, He commanded that when the Son of Man returns again, will He find any faith left upon the earth? The Church, One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic, established by the Son of God, made Man, exists exclusively for the salvation of our wretched souls. The Church lives within the deepest interiority of every Catholic in the state of grace, as the Blessed Trinity dwells there. Our Lord and our God, Christ the King of all His cosmos, insured us His Church with Her infallible Magisterium, fully developed by the end of time when the Church would be in eclipse and the world in dismay, as Rome lost the Faith, One and True, and would become the Seat of the Antichrist. These truths are very hard but so were the Truths that Christ Himself gave His disciples, as when in the Gospel of John, chapter 6, most of them (but for the Twelve) left Him. When the Son of Man returns again, will He find any faith left upon the earth? We, the remnant faithful of the One, True, Faith, find ourselves now in the midst of the tempest of tempests in the Barque of Peter. We are at see and the storms are gathering. Christ is not visibly present, nor is His Vicar, but He is there just as assuredly as He was in the hull of the boat when Peter feared. Oh’ yea of little faith, our Blessed Lord reminds us, in this time, the darkest of times this world has heretofore known. His Mystical Body is now approaching Calvary for Its Crucifixion. Hold fast to the Faith and receive God’s ineffable grace of perseverance, as the tempest of tempests is in our midst. Thanks be to God. Praise be to God. Amen. Alleluia. In caritas.
How many phenomenologists does it take to screw in a light bulb?
None, the phenomena will do it.
The Cardinals look to me like 1980’s era delegates to the Supreme Soviet. Totally soulless, spent men who no longer believe their own propaganda.