This whole synod thing (I’m not Catholic) appears to me to be an effort to move the ball left. They’re dribbling out all sorts of trial balloons and watching the reaction. The actual determination will likely not be as bad as what’s been leaked, but it still moves the ball to the left just the same. And I think that was this pope’s goal all along.
The actual determination will likely not be as bad as what’s been leaked, but it still moves the ball to the left just the same
...leftist drift has contended with the Church since the opening of the 20th century...before that, really, but the true agenda driven stuff came from later stock...simmering since the abandonment of Vat I, and through the pontificate of Pius XII, up until the election of John XXIII...
...synods don’t provide the most fertile grounds for dramatic reconstructions; they occur regularly and have limited scope and influence...but any opening, no matter how small, is welcome to the dissenter who wishes to create mischief...thus a ‘trial balloon’, though small and normally dismissed, will eventually sail through the maze, and reach the ears of a sympathetic pontiff, who will declare it his wish, and bind the Faithful to it...