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Catholics have seen their supposed shepherds manipulate Church teaching for sixty years, twisting it to fit their anti-Catholic objectives, and so they naturally believe that virtually everything is subject to change. Francis’s Synod on Synodality takes this to its diabolically ludicrous conclusion by showing us that a group of openly heterodox bishops, priests, nuns, and laity sitting around tables can change Church teaching if they can find a “spirit” to guide them.

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[one guy in new jersey]

Ah yes. The trusty “spirit”. /s

[Campion]

The Council is not a dogmatic but a pastoral one; we are not seeking to define new dogmas but to put forward the truth in a pastoral way

True enough ... so then why do some act as though the Council is the object of a quasi-idolatrous reverence, as though nothing the Church did or said before it has any substantive value?

[Verginius Rufus]

You don't see Pope St. Agatho quoted very often. He was pope from 678 to 681 and sent a letter to the Third Council of Constantinople (680-681) condemning monothelitism (the doctrine that Jesus Christ has only one will), which had originated as an attempt to bridge the gap between the Monophysites and the Chalcedonian Christians (those who accepted the Council of Chalcedon of 451).

Supposedly he was 104 years old when elected pope, but that may be an error (mixing him up with a monk with the same name).