Posted on 10/16/2026 9:25:11 PM PDT by ebb tide
At Leo XIV’s meeting on Amoris Laetitia, there was no longer any talk of “irregular” relationships, the married Münster theologian Christian Bauer, who attended the meeting as an “expert”, told katholisch.de on October 16.
The document’s methodological paradigm shift is no longer being questioned: “One must proceed synodally from concrete experiences, rather than hierarchically from abstract principles.”
At the same time, Bauer invokes the “principle of gradualness”: “The grace of Christ operates not only in sacramental marriages but also, in a mysterious way, already in ‘imperfect’ forms of life.”
Pastoral conversion “must encompass the entire existence of the Church, including its Magisterium”, he said.
Bauer expressed surprise at the absence of critics among the handpicked participants (“extreme voices, such as the infamous “Dubia” issued by some extremely conservative cardinals”).
Now, after listening to each other (and not Jesus Christ), they're not even calling them "irregular".
In the synodal "church", from now on every single relationship, whether it be adulterous or homosexual, is simply a relationship, which has some twisted form of "grace".
In years to come, the synodal "church" may even find there's "grace" in polygamist relationships or queer bath houses.
After all, there is no sin in the synodal "church".
Ping
I am waiting for the revision to Our Lord confronting the Woman at the Well. “You speak well when you say you have no husband. You have had five husbands, and the man you are with is NOT your husband . . . but, hey, there’s good in that too!”
“Heroic virtue?” That’s for chumps.
‘funny you mention the Woman at the Well passage. That passage actually came up during the special Vatican meeting on ‘Amoris Laetitia:
https://novusordowatch.org/2026/10/dominican-nun-christ-flirting-samaritan-woman/
Leo and his Lavender Mafia will try everything in their power to legalize sodomy.
Then this old man is long gone from the Catholic Church.
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