Good ole Michael Sean Winter of the heterodox National Catholic Reporter gushes over the synodal process especially when the opinions of cardinals, bishops, priests, religious and laity are heterodox.
Winters whines that those who don’t want a different Church are anti-Holy Spirit. Would that accusation be a sort of blasphemy of the Holy Spirit?
This is what Winters’ writes:
A student's message about participating in listening sessions in preparation for the 2023 world Synod of Bishops on synodality is seen April 4, 2022, at La Salle University in Philadelphia. (CNS/CatholicPhilly.com/Sarah Webb)
The funny thing is that for synodality to work, we all need to learn to be docile to the Holy Spirit, and the pastors need to learn this, too. The American penchant for pragmatism and our contemporary predilection to activism are as much a hurdle to effective synodality as is the history of exclusively hierarchic governance.
My astute opinions: I wonder if Winters and whoever wrote on the image of a bottom of a show on the sideshow would feel about the exclusion of Frank Pavone from the priesthood (if disobedience to God’s law and Canon Law is to be seen as a good, Pavone should be canonized) or those who love the TLM.
Is there a disconnect in liberal babble?
Is demanding docility to the Holy Spirit without embracing the corpus of all defined Catholic teaching in the concrete Scripture and Tradition of the Church a form of the heresy of Gnosticism, the spirit is good, the corpus is bad?
3 comments:
Maybe they should focus on reading the Catholic Catechism instead of engaging in drivel sessions
There is a bigger problem than equity. They are trying to redefine sins to suit their own preferences. If someone does not align his goals with the few and simple rules of the Holy Spirit then he will be excluded.
It was once said that the quest for the historical Jesus was simply theologians looking into a deep well, because what they saw was a reflection of their own face(s). I think "listening to the Holy Spirit" has become the same thing (at least in the synodal way); the Holy Spirit whispers whatever the hearer thinks is appropriate.
This is why the teaching office, Sacred Tradition and Sacred Scripture are so important; they provide a test so that one can determine who is really doing the whispering. Old Scratch is sneaky that way. St. John of the Cross wrote that one should assume any locution is from the devil until proved otherwise.
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