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Posted on 05/06/2026 1:07:38 PM PDT by ebb tide
(Pillars of Faith) — The recent report issued by Study Group 9 of the Synod on Synodality is deeply alarming and stands in direct contradiction to the constant teaching of the Catholic Church regarding human sexuality, sin, marriage, and the moral law.
The Church cannot change what God Himself has revealed.
Sacred Scripture speaks clearly regarding the sin of sodomy and homosexual acts. St. Paul writes in Romans 1 that such acts are “against nature,” and the Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches plainly that homosexual acts are “intrinsically disordered” and “contrary to the natural law” (CCC 2357). This teaching does not come from prejudice, politics, or cultural custom. It comes from Divine Revelation, Sacred Tradition, and the perennial teaching authority of the Church.
To suggest that the sin does not consist in the same-sex relationship itself is not merely confusing language. It is a direct assault upon Catholic moral doctrine and upon the words of Scripture itself.
READ: Synod report suggests homosexual ‘relationships’ may not be sinful
In every age, the Church is called to love sinners while never blessing sin. Authentic charity calls every soul to repentance, chastity, holiness, and conversion through Jesus Christ. True pastoral care does not affirm souls in patterns of behavior that separate them from God. A shepherd who sees danger and remains silent is not merciful.
The attempt to normalize or redefine homosexual relationships within the life of the Church is part of a broader effort to transform Catholicism into something more acceptable to the modern world. But the Church does not belong to the modern world. The Church belongs to Jesus Christ.
The destruction of doctrine under the language of “discernment,” “listening,” and “lived experience” is one of the gravest spiritual dangers of our time. Truth is not determined by experience. Truth is revealed by God.
Our Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah as a warning to every generation against grave sexual sin and rebellion against the order established by the Creator. Yet now even these truths are reinterpreted and minimalized by voices within the Church herself. This should cause profound sorrow and holy alarm among the faithful.
This is why many Catholics increasingly recognize that we are living through an authentic emergency in the life of the Church. When foundational moral truths regarding marriage, sexuality, sin, repentance, and salvation are treated as open questions, the crisis is no longer theoretical. It is present and active.
It is precisely developments such as these that have led many faithful Catholics to conclude that the Church is enduring a genuine doctrinal and pastoral emergency. When truths that Catholics have always understood as settled and unchangeable are suddenly treated as matters for “discernment” or reinterpretations, confusion spreads rapidly among the faithful.
This atmosphere of doctrinal instability is also part of the reason why groups such as the Society of St. Pius X argue that extraordinary measures are necessary in our time. Their planned episcopal consecrations without explicit Roman approval are being justified by them as a response to what they perceive as a grave emergency within the Church itself.
While Catholics may debate the prudence or canonical questions surrounding such actions, no honest observer can deny that statements and documents such as this synod report intensify the crisis and deepen the concern of countless faithful Catholics throughout the world. When voices within the Church question Divine Revelation and the perennial moral teaching of the Church, the sense of alarm among the faithful is neither irrational nor imaginary.
The warnings of Our Lady of Fatima and the great saints of the modern era appear ever more urgent now. Sister Lucia of Fatima wrote that “the final battle between the Lord and the reign of Satan will be about marriage and the family.” We are witnessing that battle unfold before our eyes. The attack upon marriage is never merely about human relationships; it is an attack upon God the Creator, upon the order of creation, upon the family as the domestic church, and ultimately upon the salvation of souls. When the meaning of marriage is distorted, the understanding of man himself is distorted.
The confusion now spreading within parts of the Church regarding sexuality, marriage, and sin reflects not the voice of Christ the Bridegroom, but the spiritual battle Our Lady warned would come. This is why the faithful must return with renewed fervor to prayer, penance, the Rosary, Eucharistic devotion, and fidelity to the truths handed down through the centuries. At Fatima, Our Lady did not call the world to adaptation with modern error, but to repentance, conversion, and reparation.
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As a shepherd, I call out today to all the faithful to stay faithful to Christ, to Sacred Tradition, to the perennial Magisterium, and to the truths the Church has always taught. No synod, committee, study group, or ecclesiastical initiative possesses authority to overturn the law of God.
We must pray and do penance for the Church. We must pray for those promoting confusion, that they may return fully to the truth entrusted to the apostles. And we must ask the Holy Ghost to raise up shepherds with the courage to speak clearly in defense of the Catholic Faith, regardless of cost.
“Our Lord Jesus Christ, who is the Truth itself, does not contradict Himself. What was sinful yesterday cannot become holy today.”
May the Blessed Virgin Mary, Destroyer of Heresies, intercede for the Church in this dark hour.
Bishop Joseph E. Strickland
Reprinted with permission from Pillars of Faith.
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Who are the members of study group 9?
“may the blessed virgin mary, destroyer of heresies, intercede for the church in this dark hour. bishop joseph e. strickland” Maybe it’s time for a lady to run things?
not on a related thread yesterday.
I beg your pardon.
On a prior thread on this subject, which was NOT “Catholic Caucus”, Protestant posters were pretending the Church had changed Doctrine regarding homosexual behavior.
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