Posted on 06/27/2024 9:17:58 AM PDT by ebb tide
A new Vatican document reveals the roadmap by which Francis intends to establish a new “synodal papacy,” which will preside over a new “synodal church.”
This new “synodal papacy,” which is intended to replace the papacy permanently established by Christ, would lead a global ecumenical church without doctrine or discipline.
The new “working document,” called “The Bishop of Rome,” outlines a number of objections to Catholic doctrine and presents suggestions of how the exercise of the papal office can be transformed.
These objections and suggestions have been drawn from submissions sent to the Vatican by non-Catholic denominations in response to John Paul II’s 1995 document Ut Unum Sint.
That the Vatican is revisiting these submissions 29 years after Ut Unum Sint was first issued should be a cause of alarm to everyone who is aware of the methods deployed by the Vatican under Francis.
Presenting heterodox ideas in non-authoritative documents, and then later attempting to make them “official” teachings, is a strategy that has been used many times during the last decade.
We have seen it used, for example, to pursue Holy Communion for the divorced and remarried and “blessings” for same-sex “couples.”
For this reason, this 150-page compilation of theological errors and radical suggestions for reform deserves more attention than it has hitherto received.
If we approach the document with the known methodology of the Vatican in mind, we come to a startling conclusion: that they intend to abolish the papacy – at least in the eyes of the world – and replace it with a new institution, which will serve as the head of an institution that the documents call “an authentic conciliar/synodal Church.” (No. 112)1
This article sets out what would occur if the objections to Catholic doctrine and the suggestions for reform made in this non-authoritative document were to be accepted and implemented – in the same way as Holy Communion for the divorced and remarried, and same-sex “blessings” have been before them.
Stage I. The redefinition of the Catholic understanding of the papacy
The first stage would be to undermine the scriptural and theological foundations of the papacy, and to replace Catholic doctrine with “a renewed understanding and exercise of the Petrine ministry” based on “synodality” to fulfil Francis’s vision of a “synodal Church.” (No. 5). This reform of the papacy would flow from the “commitment” of Francis to “build a synodal Church at all levels.” (No.5)
The document indicates they will carry this reinterpretation out as follows:
Once the orthodox idea of the papacy has been discredited, the path will be open to establish the new “synodal papacy,” which will preside over a new inclusive church void of doctrine or discipline. All the baptized will be invited into this synodal church, without having to abandon their doctrinal errors.
The synodal papacy will have these characteristics:
The seven steps and seven characteristics outlined above are reasonable inferences from the content of the document.
There will of course be those who reject such an interpretation as an exaggeration or a misinterpretation of the text. These are likely the same people who said there was no danger of Francis ever allowing Holy Communion for the divorced and remarried, or ever permitting same-sex ‘blessings”.
But those who understand the true nature of the Francis regime, ought to regard the publication of “The Bishop of Rome” as a warning of what may be to come.
Ping
Paving the way for the One World Church. Christ without the Cross. Everyone getting along and doing whatever they please. A ‘church’ formed in the depths of Hell and brought into existence by bad men.
May the Lord return quickly to save us!
I sometimes imagine that Francis is actually deep-state/Davos/CIA agent - whose mission is not necessarily to destroy Christianity (because that would be obvious) but rather to nudge, change and merge it with the post-modern and Neo-marxist spirit of the age - so that for the mass of people, over a couple generations, they will see no difference between Christian belief and morality, and state control.
Pope Tootsie Fruits is the antichrist!
"Jesus," the Pope recalled, "taught us to welcome one another as brothers," adding that "this applies first and foremost to us, Christians, Jews, and Muslims, who worship the One God and who refer, albeit in different ways, to Abraham as father in faith."
"We, who have been given the gift of this religious affiliation," the Holy Father said, "are called to be open and welcoming to those who do not share it, because they are, like all of us, members of the one human family."
Perhaps more false prophet but I agree - not good.
And Catholics stand by and let it happen just like American voters do for the Communists that currently rule over us.
Most of us are well aware that the Vatican is closed to the voice of the people. I would say that right now the prevailing posture of the average pew sitter is one of oblivious indifference. We loved and cared about JP II and B VI. Nobody cares about or loves bergoglio.
It’s a bizarre thing. On the one hand, Bergoglio seems to propose to devolve and neuter the papacy.... while he himself is a tyrant who fires bishops without cause and micromanages liturgical choices for every parish in the world.
He may be anti christ, but I doubt he’s the Antichrist.
To quote Bergoglio's pet homo, Tucho Fernandez, prefect of the once CDF:
The pope goes slow because he wants to be sure that the changes have a deep impact. The slow pace is necessary to ensure the effectiveness of the changes. He knows there are those hoping that the next pope will [] turn everything back around. If you go slowly it's more difficult to turn things back. . . .
And then to quote Archbishop Bruno Forte:
In his supreme arrogance, Forte thought nothing of informing the attendees at a press conference on Amoris Laetitia on May 3 that during the Synod Francis made a joke (“una battuta”) about how “If we speak explicitly about communion for the divorced and remarried, you do not know what a terrible mess we will make.” So, Francis told Bruno, “we don’t speak of it plainly; do it in a way that the premises are there, then I will draw out the conclusions.”
Bergoglio is not stupid; he's evil and he's surrounded himself with evil men.
Yup. They aging radicals are desperately trying to cement their revolution in concrete forever. But it won’t work. What one Pope changes (particularly when that pope is known as a bad pope), will be changed back by a future good Pope.
Yes, I see your point. “Weakness for thee but not for me.”
Only some "catholics" will stand by. Miltant Catholics, however, will live up to their namesake and defend the faith of their fathers.
If anyone thinks Francis is trying to only devise a Church that brings non-Catholic Christians together with Catholics, then they don’t understand Francis. Him and his cabal view “universal” as all faiths.
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