Australia’s Catholic Bishops Conference must have decided that the patronising non-Catholic gibberish it inflicted on us for the Plenary Council wasn’t enough – still too many Catholics actually attending Mass, perhaps? No, apparently we need even more condescending advice, even more irrelevant talking points, all embellished with that infantile logo which has found its unfortunate way onto the promotional materials for Bergoglio’s “Synod on Synods.”
You all know what I think about that logo.
The more imaginative among you may see Van Gogh’s haystacks being blown around by the Holy Ghost as a disenfranchised crowd (from “the margins”, no doubt) turns its back on the Sun of Righteousness.
But I see a tiny, defenceless child being sucked from its mother’s womb, in order to make a toxic gene serum for the world’s fearful, clueless citizens who were encouraged by their fearful, clueless bishops.
Either way, the whole thing is a farce.
Who can actually repeat that title with a straight face? A “Synod on Synods”, indeed! It is like something straight from Lewis Carol.
We don’t see issuing from St Peter’s a (sorely-needed) “Catechism on Catechisms”, do we? Should the Holy Father compose a “Litany of Litanies”? Or should he offer a whole mass of Masses (Latin, of course!)?
Now, to be fair, John XXIII did effectively achieve an anathema on anathemas. And until recent times, the Church was known for Her tradition of tradition. But that was all in the dim, dark, unenlightened past. Now we have the Modern Methods.
We have scientific instructions that explain the way in which we should conduct our conversations, our dialogue. From the ACBC:
“Speakers work in a clockwise direction. The facilitator may nominate someone to
start, then participants can share one after the other.
• Everyone speaks for two to three minutes about what happened during their
reflection time.
• Begin with the phrase: “In my reflection today…”“
It is a brave participant who would dare to move in an anti-clockwise direction.
Survivors enter the Second Round, where a different phrase is used:
“This round will be shorter than the first. Speaking order is clockwise, as before.
• Everyone speaks for one to two minutes.
• This is an opportunity to answer questions like:
• What consoled me or struck me as I listened to my companions?
• What did I hear? What did I feel? What was the Spirit saying to me/us?
• Was I especially touched by a particular sharing?
• Begin with the phrase, “In the group I heard…and it left me feeling…” “
Dear Lord. What was the Spirit saying??
That the bishops need to be accountable to all those Catholics who are now out of work because they refused the vex? I could imagine the Holy Ghost saying that.
Or that He backed Pius V all the way when that good man announced the fate of anyone who tried to do away with the Traditional Mass?
Just ask Paul VI; he learned a bit about God’s wrath and it wasn’t very pleasant.
I know I’ve gotten off track but it is embarrassing to read what those highly-paid Catholic bureaucrats come up with when they’re working on their favourite mess: reimagining the Church.
“Discernment”, cringey prayers, cringey graphics and cringey sharing-groups from triple-jabbed ecumaniacs. Do they realise how irrelevant they are? We are over it.
Oh. There’s one more thing the Spirit might say if anyone concerned about their credibility was ever to listen to Him: if you must engage in a heterodox Modernist talkfest, then at least make the effort to get the name of your own country right.
Ecclesiastical Freemasonry 
That’s good, Anonamouse.
I think we need to get a good idea of what “You shall bind on Earth” really means. If it means that any arbitrary, politically convenient, thought, word or deed by the bod in a white dress is bound “on Earth and in Heaven” then that Paul who was Saul had no business “withstanding to his face” that Peter who was Simon.
Papalatry is a sin against the First Commandment. I’m willing to defend my opinion and to own up to it to the Judge on Judgement Day.
Something I suggest you wonder about; how does a temporal authority “bind” and is a Pope a temporal authority.
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Oldavid, papolatry is a sin, but a real Catholic doesn’t engage in papolatry: rather, we abide by Our Lord’s words that “upon this rock I shall build My Church.” The rock, Peter, is the pope but also applies to the solid foundation of Apostolic teaching, which is held in higher esteem than the man himself when he isn’t doing his job properly. A pope’s “binding” only applies on matters of faith and morals (not vaccines or economics, for instance) and only if he is consistent with his predecessors. God bless you for even bothering to think about it and for commenting!
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