As I said before, Cardinals Rodriguez Maradiaga, Marx, Kasper and crew are slowly realizing that the Synod will not go their way. That's why Kasper has been saying that no matter what happens at the Synod, the German hierarchy are not a "subsidiary of Rome" and they will do their own thing regardless.
If Kasper thought the Synod was going to go the way of doctrinal or pastoral revolution, he would have tried to insinuate that its final documents would be binding!
The Gang of Nein is just exposing themselves more and more as the Party of '68. I think they're rapidly moving toward obsolescence.
Watch and pray!
I have only hope and absolutely no assurance. We will see. Have your read the lifesite.com front page today?
Another cardinal, of the very few, broaches the subject of a “split”. He defines Pope Francis as rather an “autocrat” and discusses the danger of an synod outcome that would separate theology from the practice of the priest— that without theology, of which he says the pope seems not to be a reader, the priests would be left with little to actually teach.
The cardinal opines that the banishment of those assigned by Pope Benedict from the Vatican has said a great deal about Francis, and reminds us that the John Paul II group on the FAMILY has been EXcluded from the next synod, (an unnecessary exclusion, given the subject of the synod, imho.)
My own hope is if the pope is getting the message of a split, perhaps he will back off from any further entertaining of the ridiculous posits of obviously dissident cardinals, in the name of “dialogue” and “clearing the air”.
This synod business has scandalized and injured so many of the faithful on many levels. We have heard him marginalize Traditional Catholics, which has caused a set back for all those trying to bring the preferred piety of the Extraordinary Form into dioceses who have none. (In my diocese, we are left dead in the water with a stubborn bishop, who is of like mind as the pope and who has no regard for Summorum Pontificum by Pope Benedict.
We are harmed by all the confusion and the proverbial remarks made off the cuff by Pope Francis only add more.
The cardinal in the article has much more to say.
"And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind," - Romans 1:28
Those who prefer paganism and goddess worship to the Lord Jesus Christ will follow their demonic leader and his homosexual cohort in their red dresses right into Hell, lauding their false church all the way.