Posted on 09/30/2023 6:04:39 PM PDT by ebb tide
ROME — Kazakh Bishop Athanasius Schneider has joined the many Catholic prelates warning of nefarious plotting behind the scenes of the upcoming Vatican “Synod on Synodality.”
O Lord, “prevent the enemies of the Church from exulting in a victory over the authentic Catholic Church obtained by imposing a counterfeit church under the guise of ‘synodality,’” Bishop Schneider wrote in a September 29 prayer for the synod.
“For where sin and apostasy in the Church abounds, the victory of Your grace will abound the more,” the bishop added.
In his prayer, released on the feast of Saint Michael the Archangel, Schneider also laments the “profound distress” to which the Catholic Church is being subjected, citing “doctrinal confusion, moral abomination, and liturgical abuse.”
The full text of the prayer was retweeted by the redoubtable Cardinal Joseph Zen, former bishop of Hong Kong and a vocal critic of the Vatican’s “selling out” of the Catholic Church in China.
Last month, Pope Francis publicly appealed to journalists to help him put a positive spin on the upcoming synod, aware of the negative press it has received.
“I dare to ask you, the experts of journalism, for help,” the pontiff told a meeting of journalists in the Vatican; “help me to narrate this process for what it really is, leaving behind the logic of slogans and pre-packaged stories.”
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So pathetic. A secular pope appealing to the secular press for "help".
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