[Catholic Caucus] The Sin-Nod For A Sin-Nodal Church

Restore DC Catholicism ^ | June 22, 2023 | Restore DC Catholicism

[ebb tide]

[Catholic Caucus] The Sin-Nod For A Sin-Nodal Church

Redundancy is a great ploy for those who haven't the foggiest idea about which they are blathering, isn't it?  The Vatican wonks are getting this tactic down to an art form, wouldn't you say?

The Instrumentem Laboris has been released, comic sans font and all.  It can be found here, in all its translations and formats.  Mind you, these are official translations.  For the purposes of this post, I'm going to examine the Word file, as word counts can be done quite efficiently.  Word counts are a decent indicator of priorities.  So let's jump right on in with some word counts:

• God - 102
• Jesus - 10
• Sin - 0
• Redemption - 0
• synod/synodal - 382
• church - 480
• welcome - 17
• experience - 82
• accompany - 15
• sacrament - 13
• salvation - 2
• repent - 2

So there you have it.  When "experience" outnumbers "repent", when "synod" trumps "God", we cannot deny that priorities are fatally inverted.  Now keep that word document open and go to page 29.  I am guiding you right to that since the beginnings of these documents are awash in verbosity, full of fluffy-puff stuff - all designed to hide the real malevolence of the thing, such as page 29's stinker.  It talks of welcoming diverse participants.  Besides "diverse" folks such as poor, disabled, racial minorities, we see (in fact it's listed first in a) those currently engaging in adultery and sexual perversions.  That's right!  Those committing mortal sins of the flesh are seen as no different than the economically disadvantaaged.  Ironically, for those caught up in these sins, there has always been an avenue of welcome.  It's called repentance and the Sacrament of Confession.  But as we saw above, the word "repent" only shows up twice in this 27,376-word monstrosity.

By the way - no where in this bloated tome do I find any scintilla of concern, let alone appreciation, for those of us who see the value in the Tradtional Latin Mass.  This omission alone screams volumes regarding the importance (or lack thereof) that this current papacy ascribes to the patrimony of Holy Mother Church.

[Hambone 1934]

There is the proof....Progressive Catholics think Jesus is an idiot and can’t possibly speak to todays catholics......

[ebb tide]

Very difficult to spot references to Christ in Synod document

The word cloud for the Instumentum Laboris for the October Synod.

The Synod is a hollowed-out and self-referential shell

[NorthMountain]

It’s a synod on synodality. Of COURSE it’s self-referential.

The phrase “self-licking ice cream cone” comes to mind.