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.
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Another lefty not wearing a habit! Inane indeed
Father, thank you for reading this psychobabble so that I don’t have to.
I pray there are sane people in the Curia, and Pope Leo himself, he see this babbling for what it is. It is laughable if not so sad for the Vatican and worldwide Church.
I suspect this synodality nonsense was sold to the Church by some high-priced consultant. All that is really necessary is to read the Catholic Catechism and teach what it says! Think of all of the money that could have been saved and redirected to charity and other good causes.
From Pope Leo:
"Among the Church’s initiatives that are like seeds sown in this field, I would mention the Borgo Laudato Si’ project that Pope Francis bequeathed to us at Castel Gandolfo. It is a seed that promises to bear fruits of justice and peace, and an educational project in integral ecology that can serve as an example of how people can live, work and build community by applying the principles of the Encyclical Laudato Si’.
I pray that Almighty God will send us in abundance his “Spirit from on high” (Is 32:15), so that these seeds, and others like them, may bring forth an abundant harvest of peace and hope.
The Encyclical Laudato Si’ has now guided the Catholic Church and many people of good will for ten years. May it continue to inspire us and may integral ecology be increasingly accepted as the right path to follow. In this way, seeds of hope will multiply, to be “tilled and kept” by the grace of our great and unfailing Hope, who is the risen Christ. In his name, I offer all of you my blessing."
From the Vatican, 30 June 2025
The good Sister, and those of her ilk, is part of the Vatican's "Deep State". Leo is going to have to go against his better nature and ruthlessly cut the cancer out.....unless, as I suspect, he is actually part of it and is more a "wolf in sheep's clothing" than anyone wants to admit
I found Sister Nathalie Becquar's comments uplifting and informative.
A bit of background...
Sister Becquar worked at the Synod with our future Pope Leo XIV. Interestingly, they are neighbors as they live in the same building at the Palazzo Sant'Uffizio, within the Vatican Gates. They have conversed with each other.
Sister Becquar, via interviews, has praised Pope Leo XIV. Sister is excited that he is Pope.
Sister Nathalie Becquart "was among the well-wishers who greeted Leo when he came home the night of his May 8 election. Becquart posted a joyous selfie with the pope in the courtyard in one of the first private moments after his election.
"I had time to greet him, not just as a neighbor,. I found him smiling, as calm as ever. He greeted those present and gave his blessings.
"He is a very humble, discreet, balanced, and serious man."
"We met during the Synod on Synodality. Cardinal Prevost participated in both sessions, in October 2023 and 2024. He was part of the working groups on the role of bishops and the processes and criteria for their appointment.
"In Latin America, he was in a diocese with few priests, so he had experience working with lay people and having women in positions of responsibility.
Why do you think the cardinals elected him so quickly?
"He is in line with the pontificate of Pope Francis. He mentioned this in his speech. He also spoke about the synodal Church. I believe that his very rich experience must have played a role.
"As an Augustinian religious, he must also have at heart the dimension of unity and communion, two very important elements in the Rule of St. Augustine."
Pax.
Mark Thomas
-- Women priests ‘not an open question,’ says Sister Nathalie Becquart
Catholic News Agency
Dec 13, 2022
Sister Becquart added: "It’s not just a matter of you feeling you are called to priesthood, it’s always a recognition that the Church will call you to be a priest. So your personal feeling or decision is not enough."
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The CNA article continued:
"Pope Francis has also addressed the subject of women’s ordination recently in an interview with America Magazine.
"When the pope was asked for his response to a woman who feels called to be a priest, Pope Francis replied decisively: “And why can a woman not enter ordained ministry? It is because the Petrine principle has no place for that.”
“The ministerial dimension, we can say, is that of the Petrine church. I am using a category of theologians. The Petrine principle is that of ministry,” the pope said.
Pax.
Mark Thomas
Sister Nathalie Becquart granted a wonderful, uplifting interview to Vatican News.
Sister, in line with Church teaching, has made it clear that Synodality is the Holy People of God walking together in peace toward God.
Sister noted that Synodality consists of "a welcoming Church, willing to work with everybody to preach the Gospel."
"And if we embrace a better synodal style, we will bear more fruits in the mission. And so, the Church will be able to better proclaim the Gospel, to transmit the faith and to serve, to love and serve the people."
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Sister quoted the following from Australian theologian Ormond Rush:
"Synodality is the Second Vatican Council in a nutshell."
Sister also promoted Synodality as:
"So it’s a way to be Church. That was a way, from the early Church, that we retrieve from the Second Vatican Council as a fruit highlighting that, first of all, we are all baptized; and as baptized together as people of God, we are called to carry on the mission together.
"So, it’s calling every baptized person to be a protagonist of the mission, to help us understand that we are called to work together, exercising co-responsibility for the mission...we are people of God..."
Pax.
Mark Thomas
What Sister says can take place in Protestantism, Judaism, other religions and in secular civic organizations. Thus I prefer how Pope Leo describes it in His Holiness’ Angelus address. It’s Catholic and intentionally so.
Sister Nathalie Becquar did not speak as a Protestant, or Jew. Sister defined Synodality, and had spoken about Synodality, in line with Church teaching.
Sister's understanding, as well as promotion of Synodality, have been formed by Holy Mother Church.
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Pope Leo XIV knows Sister Becquar. As then-Cardinal Prevost, he and Sister had worked together at the Synod.
Pope Leo XIV has the right and authority to remove Sister Becquar from her role as an undersecretary of the Synod of Bishops.
Pax.
Mark Thomas
Wow! Sister is infallible!
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