LORD HAVE MERCY! WHAT A MESS! WHAT A DISTRACTION! WHAT A SCANDAL! THE SYNODAL WAY IS A JOKE AT THIS POINT AND MAKING THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH A SELF-REFERENTIAL, NARCISSISTIC CHURCH LOOKING INWARD, WHAT MY NOW DECEASED BISHOP, RAYMOND LESSARD, CALLED NAVEL GAZING OR IS IT NAVAL GAZING? EITHER WAY, IT IS SAD!

Thank God the Vatican is trying to reign in the Germans. Note that the head of the Bishops’ Conference of Germany uses as his rational to justify the outrages coming from Germany that they are simply listening to their disgruntled people, much of the anger due to the clergy sex abuse scandal, to remake the Church into something that isn’t remotely Roman Catholic. There is no mention of listening to God, Scripture, Tradition, the perennial Magisterium of the Church or the Deposit of Faith. In fact, these things are seen as an enemy of the synodal Church and redesigning a Church that is purely sociological, changeable and of no Divine use whatsoever.

I hope this Vatican correction isn’t just a smoke screen to placate common sense clergy and laity who think the who process is not the work of the Holy Spirit. I suspect the Holy Spirit can be credited for trying to clean it up and prevent the fires of hell from consuming the Church through this inane and unwieldy process!

Vatican urges ‘moratorium’ on German church reform process

By Elise Ann Allen

Money byte:

According to the Vatican’s statement, Parolin in his opening remarks pointed to “the bond of communion and love that unites the bishops among themselves and with the Successor of Peter,” and he also stressed the importance of the meeting as “a moment of sharing and grace, of unity in differences.”

He also voiced concern over certain elements of the German church’s Synodal Path, cautioning against the risk of carrying out “reforms of the Church and not in the Church.”

In his own remarks, Bishop Georg Bätzing of Limburg, President of the German Bishops’ Conference, outlined the work of the Synodal Path thus far, and stressed its guiding spirit (my comment:not the Holy Spirit!!!!)as being rooted in “listening to the people of God and on the pain of the abuses committed by members of the clergy.”

He highlighted the topics discussed in the Synodal Path assemblies thus far, listing them as: Power and division of powers in the church – common participation and missionary planning; Priestly life today; Women in Church ministries and offices; and, Living in relationships that work – living love in sexuality and in the couple relationship.