Pope Says God ‘Expects’ the Church to Be ‘Synodal’ and ‘Open to Everyone’

The promotion of synodality comes days before an influential document is set to be released to guide the next stage of the process.

VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) — Pope Francis has called for a “Church open to everyone” which is marked by a “synodal style,” claiming that “this is what God expects” of the Church today.

The Pontiff made his comments as part of the “Pope Video” project, which released a new video and prayer intention every month.

October’s intention is for a “Church open to everyone,” and focuses on the Synod on Synodality – linked in part to the key document which will guide the next stage of the synod being released later this month. It is also now 12 months since the multi-year event was launched in October 2021.

The “synodal” style has been described by Newark’s Cardinal Joseph Tobin as Francis’ “long-game” plan to effect change in the Church. Indeed, Francis has previously stated that “the Church is either synodal or it is not Church.”

Liturgical scholar and Thomist Dr. Peter Kwasniewski previously warned LifeSiteNews about the dangers in the modern understanding of synodality, declaring that “we see a continual submersion in bureaucracy, a surrender to the modern mentality of administration as the cure for all evils, which keeps the Church busy gazing at its navel while real evangelization withers and the pews empty out.”

So, sort of like a wide road leading to a public golf course? I think Jesus said something about a wide road.

This is the Pope that doesn’t want Christians to evangelize, right? That seems to be a vontradiction.

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That is not someone who is advancing the interests of FreeRepublic, nor do the vast majority of your posts (Bergoglio, Putin) have anything to do with American constitutional conservatism and our humbling thankfulness before God Almighty that constitutional conservatism has raised up the rule of American Exceptionalism.

I find it fascinating that Kaslin was more or less forced off this website just this May for the same indefensible behaviour: her complete and absolute indifference to rooting around at the bottom of the MSM garbage can she willing writhed into in order to be able to post 12 or 20 times a day; and her poor thread management, outright refusing to contribute to her own threads; and that you, like her, are so often taking advantage of the fact that the ReligionModerator -- a very good person who simply and appropriately expects grown adults to abide by the solid set of FR Religion Forum rules established long ago that only require obedience to work here -- was only able to make 5 posts in 2021 and 6 posts in 2022.

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