Posted on 07/06/2023 3:07:06 PM PDT by ebb tide
Argentine Archbishop Hector Aguer has likened the Synod on Synodality to the “globalist Agenda 2030” of the U.N. and the Protestant schism.
Aguer is the Archbishop Emeritus of La Plata in Argentina. He was succeeded in 2018 by the highly controversial new head of the Dicastery (formerly Congregation) for the Doctrine of the Faith, Archbishop Victor Manuel Fernandez.
In a letter published by Rorate Caeli, Aguer criticized the new working document, or Instrumentum Laboris (IL), of the Synod on Synodality, which highlights the need “to welcome those who feel excluded from the Church because of their status or sexuality.”
Aguer said that “the synodal Church formulates a progressive gloss on the Gospel.”
“The Instrumentum Laboris sets out how to ecclesially assume the globalist Agenda 2030,” he stated. “It is admirable how the pontifical monarchy makes the ‘synodal democracy’ say just what it wants this ‘democracy’ to say. It is something like throwing a stone and hiding the hand.”
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He noted that through the Synod “the Catholic Church is belatedly beginning to follow the path opened by the Protestant Reformation, at a time when Protestantism has long since been swallowed up by the world.”
“This is the moment to quote what a Danish Lutheran who was a great Christian philosopher, Soren Kierkegaard, wrote in his Diary in 1848: ‘Just now, when there is talk of reorganizing the Church, it is clear how little Christianity there is in it,’” the archbishop continued.
Aguer furthermore criticized lay participation in the Synodal Process, especially of laywomen, and opined that “Priestly vocations are no longer a priority” in the “Synodal Church.”
“The itinerary of the future Assembly, which has already been two years in preparation, makes the ‘crowd’ speak and vote — especially and novelly the feminine one,” he wrote. “This is what I implied with the well-known example of the stone. When the design of this other Church is completed, the Supreme Pontiff, faced with the criticisms that will not be lacking, will be able to say: ‘I did not do it’!”
Aguer said that the new ecclesiology called “synodality” is ambiguous since it does not clearly state in which direction the Church is supposed to be going.
“The goal, then, can be the new progressive Church, at cross purposes with the great ecclesial Tradition,” the archbishop wrote.
“One of the topics on the agenda, which quickly attracts attention, is ‘how can the Church be more responsive to LGBTQ+ people’,” he said, noting that the expression “persons with homosexual tendencies” that has been used in the Catechism and other Church documents is replaced by this new ideological term “LGBTQ+ people.”
Aguer concluded that “objective truth and the recognition of precepts by which virtue, and sin, are judged and recognized no longer count.” Rather, “What matters now is how those who consider themselves excluded feel; it is their feeling that matters, not the objective state in which they find themselves.”
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“The synodal program, like that of the German Synod, designs another Church, heterogeneous with respect to the great and unanimous Tradition,” he stated.
Aguer mentioned that he has known Pope Francis personally for 45 years. He likened Francis and the authors of the Synod documents to “second causes” through which God permits evil to happen.
“I recognize and venerate Francis as the Successor of Peter, Vicar of Christ,” he wrote. “But Francis is still Jorge Bergoglio. Now, I have known Jorge Bergoglio for 45 years. He is a ‘second cause.’”
Aguer mentioned that he has known Pope Francis personally for 45 years. He likened Francis and the authors of the Synod documents to “second causes” through which God permits evil to happen.
“I recognize and venerate Francis as the Successor of Peter, Vicar of Christ,” he wrote. “But Francis is still Jorge Bergoglio. Now, I have known Jorge Bergoglio for 45 years. He is a ‘second cause.’”
Ping
Synod on Synodality
Sounds like a “meeting on meetingship.”
We’re having a meeting to decide if we’re going to have meetings in the future.
We’re scheduling a three hour meeting, twice a week, to determine why this project is behind schedule and over budget ...
:)
It’s an overhaul of Catholic teaching on faith and morals, by opinion poll. Thousands of parishes having “listening sessions” where ignorant laypeople “share” and say what they want. According to many reports on the ground, they want what most people of today’s worldwide pagan culture want: ‘gay marriage’, approval of homosexuality, women priests, approval of contraception and even abortion, total acceptance of everyone and their chosen perversions, etc.
It’s the dismantling of the moral edifice of the Church, nothing less.
Heaven help us all! If Francis goes along with this he’s an antipope, without a doubt.
Hang in there, pray, and keep the Faith come what may.
There's really not much room for doubt already.
Synod on Synodality without a clear appreciation for the Messianic Hour, perpetuated on the Altar of Sacrifice, bringing us to Holy Communion and service rendered one to another in Truth, will end up as the ongoing machinations of the enemies of Christ - a further thrust into diabolical disorientation. The Messianic Hour is the suffering, death, and resurrection of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ with an emphasis on the Holy Sacrifice which is the source of our salvation.
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My friends, do not be gaslighted into thinking you are unloving and rigid because you hold to the Truth. Remember the words of St. Paul to Timothy: "I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who will judge the living and the dead, and by His appearing in kingly power, proclaim the word; be persistent whether it is convenient or inconvenient... for the time will come when people will not tolerate sound doctrine, but, following their own desires and insatiable curiosity, will accumulate teachers and will stop listening to the truth and will be diverted to myths. But you, be self-possessed in all circumstances; put up with hardship; fulfill your ministry." (2 Timothy 4:1-5)
Like others on this forum, I learned The Faith in my youth. When people, even clerics, come preaching “another gospel” ... I recognize it as HERESY.
Amen!
“the Catholic Church is belatedly beginning to follow the path opened by the Protestant Reformation, at a time when Protestantism has long since been swallowed up by the world.”
^^^THIS.
X1000.
It really does boil down to an effort to remake Catholicism in the image of liberal protestantism... at the precise moment when it’s more obvious than ever that liberal protestantism is an absolute, total failure.
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