Robert Royal’s Synod Call to Vigilance for the Next Year

This has been the most incredible week in my over 30 years of dealing with Catholic Church controversies and negligences on the life and family issues. Finally, many bishops are seeing the deceitful manipulations within the Church towards evil agendas and are heroically, fiercely, and very publicly acting to defend the Church from the wolves within.

We are witnessing real men coming forward to lead. These are what we have always expected and hoped bishops would be, but have so infrequently seen in recent decades.

For many of us, we have waited a long, long time for this. I pray that it will continue, as it must. There are exciting signs that it will.

The video of Cardinal Pell’s blunt assessment of what the radicals in the synod had tried to do is breathtaking. In it he indicates that a small group of “radicals”, yes, he uses that word, has failed in their attempt to push the Synod to accept homosexuality, cohabitation, and other changes of Catholic moral teaching.

Pell said, totally contrary to the lying Kasper, the issue of giving Communion to divorced and remarried couples is supported by “very few, certainly not the majority of the synod fathers.”

And then he added something that until now, almost all Church leaders would not dare to say for fear of being called uncharitable or conspiracy minded. He said, “it’s only at the tip of the iceberg. It’s a stalking horse. They want wider changes: recognition of civil unions, recognition of homosexual unions.”

“The Church cannot go in that direction,” because “it would be a capitulation from the beauties and strengths of the Catholic tradition.”

Yes! These are things about which we in LifeSite and many others have been trying desperately to warn leaders in the Church and others for.....

The Church of England has totally gone down the moral relativist drain. A recent memoir by one of the UK's most successful public relations men recounts this incredible scene with a past C of E Archbishop:

One day, a friend rang me up and told me the Archbishop of Canterbury — then George Carey — was having a bit of trouble....he was ‘tired and emotional’ and... his marriage was falling apart. So I was asked to... advise him. ...I found the offer quite interesting... because I’d never met an archbishop before, let alone a tired and emotional one.
As soon as I entered Carey’s study, he pointed to himself and said: ‘Right! Do I look tired and emotional?’... Then he asked if I could give him my advice as a PR man.
So I said, ‘Yes, Your Grace. But forgive me; I’ve never met an archbishop before, so would you mind us saying a prayer to make our consultation successful.’ This completely nonplussed him. He said: ‘Er, do you have any particular prayer in mind?’
‘No, you’re the Archbishop,’ I answered. ‘You know all the prayers. You decide what’s best.’
He said: ‘Do you want us to kneel?’ and I replied: ‘That’s not a bad idea.’ So we knelt at his desk.
At the precise moment Carey started his prayer, the door of his study opened and a lady with a tea tray walked in and looked at us very strangely. ‘Where do you want me to put the tea?’ she asked. She was shaking her head as she left the room.
In the end, Carey and I had a perfectly good and constructive session. I told him to stop going on and on about homosexual priests and same-sex marriage and women priests, and instead start talking about belief in God.
Carey looked at me as though I was very naïve. Then he took me over to a horizontal framed picture on the wall that contained all his bishops in a series of long rows.
‘It’s not easy, you know,’ he said. ‘This job. I mean, I have to control this lot.’ He started to point at individual bishops in the photograph, saying things like: ‘This one’s gay, this one has no belief in God, this one believes in black magic, this one is a suspected paedophile . . .’
It was extraordinary. I said: ‘I feel very sorry for you. But surely there’s one thing that you’ve got in common. You have faith.’
He looked as though he was anything but sure.
From: Right or Wrong: The Memoirs of Lord Bell

The C of E has now approved the idea of married gay pastors, and another past Archbishop recommended that UK allow shari'a law for muslims. Make sure your church doesn't take the relativist road.

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