HOW NOT TO PROMOTE SYNODALITY UNLESS ONE HAS A DEATH WISH FOR IT!

This interview with Sister Nathalie is inane! It’s a long interview with some good questions but the answers are incredibly inane, boring and off-putting.

Why?

First of all, in all the verbosity of her answers, nothing is really said. It’s a word salad a la Kamala Harris! Incredible!

Second and most importantly, she says nothing, and I mean nothing, about God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. She says nothing about Jesus Christ as the exclusive means to eternal life in heaven through His passion, death and resurrection. She says nothing about our Blessed Mother or the Communion of Saints. 

She says nothing about the Sacraments of the Church, the Church’s spirituality and long prayer traditions and moral life. Nothing! Nothing! Nothing!

And as it concerns synodality, she really says nothing. I am not better off reading this interview and trying to wrap my head around it than I was before I read her word-salad interview!

Perhaps she should have listened to Pope Leo XIV’s Sunday Angelus. He’s now on a well deserved vacation at Castel Gandolfo. Interesting that all this about a new document to explain synodality, which it does not, but muddies the waters even more, comes out when the pope is on vacation and not at the Vatican. It’s almost as though these people are living once again the Pope Francis papacy, that is, living in the past.

This is what Pope Leo XIV said, in part, at his Sunday Angelus. Sr. Nathalie would do well to heed His Holiness’ words. Is it to much to ask those controlling the synodality word salads to include some of this in their statements and interviews????

Pope Leo XIV:

Dear brothers and sisters, the Church and the world do not need people who fulfill their religious duties as if the faith were merely an external label. We need laborers who are eager to work in the mission field, loving disciples who bear witness to the Kingdom of God in all places. Perhaps there is no shortage of “intermittent Christians” who occasionally act upon some religious feeling or participate in sporadic events. But there are few who are ready, on a daily basis, to labor in God’s harvest, cultivating the seed of the Gospel in their own hearts in order then to share it in their families, places of work or study, their social contexts and with those in need.

To do this, we do not need too many theoretical ideas about pastoral plans. Instead, we need to pray to the Lord of the harvest. Priority must be given, then, to our relationship with the Lord and to cultivating our dialogue with him. In this way, he will make us his laborers and send us into the field of the world to bear witness to his Kingdom.

Let us ask the Blessed Virgin Mary, who generously gave her “yes” to participating in the work of salvation, to intercede for us and accompany us on the path of following the Lord, so that we too may become joyful laborers in God’s Kingdom.

Press title for word salad interview, a la Kamala Harris: Sr. Becquart: New Synod document to foster exchange of gifts among local Churches

Sister Nathalie Becquart, Undersecretary of the General Secretariat of the Synod of Bishops, speaks to Vatican News about the new document "Pathways for the Implementation Phase of the Synod," highlighting the realization of synodality within the local Churches, as well as the exchange of gifts among them.