Thus far, Pope Leo has in simple ways, but through talks to select groups but sticking to a written text, indicated the direction that His Holiness’ papacy will take as it regards synodality, politics and sexuality. And to a certain extent, His Holiness’ agenda for the Liturgy of the Church.
One rotten fruit the expanded synodality of Pope Francis has produced is to make political the nature of conveying and changing doctrines and morals.
Under Pope Francis, who protested a bit too much that synodality under his watch was not a political parliament, became precisely that a political jamboree.
Within that context, one major political lobby that is huge as a secular worldwide lobby and now to find a branch in the Catholic synodal lobby, is the LGBTQ+++ Synodal Political Party Lobby.
Under this umbrella, the heterodox of the Church, who since 1968 with St. Paul VI’s release of Humanae Vitae, have sought to overturn that document in order to revultionize Catholic sexual morals with a new kind of morality which in effect is the old immorality.
If the LGBTQ+++ synodal lobby gets its way, Humanae Vitae will be overturned, not official, but in fact.
No longer will the sex act be linked to a licit marriage and procreation and the unitive aspect of uniting a man and woman in a licit marriage of love and life. It will be for anyone, in any manner, although respectful, but who defines that, because what is respectful to one is violent to another. Thus artificial birth control as immoral will have no meaning whatsoever for heterosexual couples.
Gender fluidity will become the norm and multiple genders recognized according to what one thinks they are or “feels” they are.
Natural Law will be tossed as well as what the Church has taught since the earliest centuries about human sexuality.
Abortion will be embraced as a sacrament.
OF COURSE THE FIRES OF HELL WILL NOT PREVAIL OVER THE CHURCH!
Pope Leo’s short papacy and few words have made that clear in a simple way:
1. He upholds natural law, the key for evangelization and for all moral documents of the Church to include sexuality but beyond that also.
2. He upholds the Deposit of Faith and asks moral theologians to follow the pre-Vatican II moralist, St. Alphonsus Liguori.
3. He calls sinners to conversion.
4. and in one sentence describes what synodality is by quoting St. Augustine:
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He’s just conducted 2x 2.5 hour interviews with crux now reporters, to be released soon.
https://cruxnow.com/vatican/2025/09/leo-gives-first-exclusive-interview-to-crux-correspondent-for-new-bio
https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/rober-catholic-fundamentalism-massa-church
Thanks for the link. In the late 1800’s when modernism was infecting the liberal Protestant denominations at the time, their so-called embrace of heterodox modernist ideas led, within Protestantism, as a reaction to it, to the Protestant fundamentalist movement of the early 1900’s in the USA. Vatican II’s heterodox modernists too have provoked a similar movement in the Catholic Church in the USA and I presume elsewhere, of a reaction to the heterodoxy left making the orthodox right go a bit too far right or “fundamentalist.” The Commonweal author traces that history starting in the late 60’s but doesn’t make the connection to the reaction of orthodox Catholics to the heterodoxy of the left. That’s the weakness of the article. Today, though, with synodality, listening, and all the other manipulative words used, if the LGBTQ++++ and other heterodox left leaning groups are to be coddled and welcomed, so too must the Fundamentalist Catholics. I did not see that welcome in the article or chastising the Archbishop of Detroit for his rigid exclusion of those with whom he disagrees and without dialogue with them, from his seminary. There also was not due process and all of that will end up in court and the Archdiocese paying a hearty price in a law suit.
Are you referring to the sacking of 3 controversial seminary professors?
I would have thought that’s entirely within the remit of the archbishop and a matter of religious freedom. If a bishop can sack a staff member of a school not involved in religious/catechetical formation for lifestyle reasons then he can absolutely do so to seminary teachers who loudly criticise the pope and challenge his encyclical teachings.
Yes, the three seminary professors. In the USA, in terms of employment, one must follow due-process or face a lawsuit. These professors had contracts and also tenure. The Archbishop act unilaterally, not even consulting the rector of the seminary, who ordinarily does the firing, even if asked by the Archbishop to do it. What this Archbishop did is questionable from the secular point of view and certainly anti-synodal from the new Catholic point of view.
By the way, when I was in Macon, Ga, our private Catholic High School had hired an actively gay young man, as the music director. While there, but before same sex marriage became legal in the USA for all states, he decided to marry his male partner but in a ceremony in Minnesota, which at that time recognized same sex “marriage.” The bishop of our diocese asked the President of the high school to fire the teacher. I was involved in all of this as the dean of the Macon deanery. The firing of this man caused a media melt down at it made international news. The young man hired a good lawyer, and the high school was ordered to pay a settlement to him. That’s how it works in the USA even with our division of Church and State.
Just to touch on one point: it's an inter-diocesan seminary, so the archbishop has little-to-no unilateral authority. But he acted without consulting the rector or the board overseeing the seminary, and without following the procedure outlined in the seminary's procedures. He truly is a protege of Francis: "for my friends, everything; for my enemies, not even the law."
Nick
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