Why does the Vatican need Andrea Tornielli to write an editorial on synodality? It is ridiculous to say the least that editorials are needed from the Magisterium of the Church to make a case for this, that or the other. Let me say that again, it is ridiculous as is synodality and the confusion, bureaucracy and endless meetings it has wrought for an elite few of all classes in the Church with a good smattering of heterodox clergy and laity.
And a Vatican strapped for cash wastes, like drunken soldiers, monies best spent to assist the poor around the Vatican.
The pope is doing damage control in Belgium where only about 2% of Catholics go to Mass, yes, you read that correctly, 2% to 6% of Catholics there go to Mass and you have the damn president of the Catholic University there tell the pope that no universal truths are needed in the Church and people of any gender of the LBGTQ+++ ideology of whatever marital status should be ordained priests. The nerve.
And so Tornielli tells us that the pope wants to bring people closer to the Church. Is the Belgian model a model of success for the Church?
Thus the pope says we can’t go backwards to a time when we had 90% of Catholics at Mass or forwards to a Church that kills itself like in Belgium.
Perhaps the pope should fire everyone in the Vatican, resign and call a conclave? But will that help? Only by the grace of God!
From Vatican News:
The purpose of the Synod and 'fashionable' reforms
By Andrea Tornielli - Brussels
What is the priority of the Synod that is about to begin? What is the main and most important purpose of the Church's synodal reform?
From Brussels, at the Basilica of the Sacred Heart of Koekelberg, where he met with bishops, clergy, religious, and pastoral workers, Pope Francis outlined an answer by posing a question.
“The synodal process,” he said, after listening to a testimony, “must involve returning to the Gospel. It is not about prioritizing 'fashionable' reforms, but asking: 'How can we bring the Gospel to a society that is no longer listening or has distanced itself from the faith?' Let us all ask ourselves this question.”
No "fashionable" reforms, then. Neither is there place for agendas that—on the one hand—advocate for functional changes but end up clericalizing the laity, nor those that—on the other hand—aim to restore a past era influenced by neo-clericalism.
Both are perspectives that ultimately downplay the urgent and fundamental question that Pope Francis has reiterated: the proclamation of the Gospel in secularized societies.
Both of these perspectives end up forgetting the sole true purpose of any reform in the Church: the salvation of souls, the care of God's holy faithful people.
By putting the Pope's question back at the center, which was the reason for the Second Vatican Council, and by placing the well-being and care of God's people at the center, it becomes clear that synodality is the way to live communion in the Church.
It is not an additional bureaucratic task for clergy and laity who adopt it reluctantly and only in words, remaining in practice still tied to models from a century ago. It is not the passepartoutthrough which to justify every worldly initiative.
Instead, synodality is the full expression of a lived communion. We can only bear witness to our brothers and sisters when we are aware that we are all loved by God and when we joyfully live the Gospel, conscious of the fact that—whatever our role in the Church—we are called by the Other, and it is He who guides His Church.
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