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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.

This synod business has scandalized and injured so many of the faithful on many levels.

No surprise, considering the heretical tendencies of he who is running the show:

"Argentine Cardinal kneels to receive Protestant 'Blessing'"

http://www.traditioninaction.org/RevolutionPhotos/A306rcBergoglioBless.html

I don't necessarily differ with anything Prof. Spaemann says (he's an academic ethicists, and evidently a great one --- not a Cardinal): we're in a dangerous time with a leader at the helm whose words and actions seem at times erratic. If there's going to be a split, it looks like it would come in the next 12 months.

But the upshot of the article I posted, is that the Kasper-Marx team sees the Synod is not going to go their way. They see the conservatives on the ascendency, and they see Pope Francis increasingly siding with them, especially on sex and gender issues (which are the hot items now, of course.)

So I am cautiously hopeful --- not optimistic -- that the patrimony will survive and even be strengthened and clarified in the open conflict.

In a way, open conflict may have its positives. We have already seen the Kasper faction openly say their pastoral practice will be whatever-we-think-best, thank-you-very-much, which can only rub Pope Francis the wrong way, to their detriment.

Pray.

Fasting would help. too.