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Posted on 11/09/2026 12:02:43 PM PST by ebb tide
Cardinal Joseph Zen, bishop emeritus of Hong Kong, in a blog post last week, reflecting on the fruits of the Second Vatican Council, called on Pope Leo XIV to put a stop to the Synod and condemned the initiative’s “hidden agendas” on LGBT ideology, female “ordination,” and clerical celibacy.
In his blog post, translated into English on November 6, Cardinal Zen argued that the Second Vatican Council has not been sufficiently fruitful, namely because it is under “constant attack” by those trying to use it to justify reforms contrary to the faith. Turning specifically to the Synod, he slammed the process and the “hidden agendas” lying behind it, such as allowing the “ordination” of women to Holy Orders, allowing Roman clerics to choose not to be celibate, and “updating” sexual morality “under the ‘L.G.B.T.Q. banner.'”
Cardinal Zen called on Pope Leo to put an end to the Synod on Synodality and these hidden agendas, as well as sending Cardinal Mario Grech, the secretary general of the Synod of Bishops, and Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich, S.J., who was the general relator of the Synod, on a “long vacation,” and remove Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández as prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith.
“After all these years of the synodal process, they have failed to get their ‘hidden agendas’ (in fact, not so ‘hidden’) fulfilled,” Cardinal Zen wrote. ‘There was relentless manipulation and strict control of the process, yet it was a failure. Despite every effort to stifle genuine discussion, the objectives that the Pope evidently entrusted to the Synod Secretariat were not achieved.”
“Even within the limited time for free speech in the assembly, it was evident: that Synod members rejected those objectives: changing the hierarchical constitution of the Church, ordaining women to the priesthood starting with the diaconate, the free choice of celibacy for the Roman clergy, and the sexual morality radically ‘updated’ (?) under the L.G.B.T.Q. banner,” he added.
The Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches that “homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered” and “contrary to the natural law” and that the homosexual inclination is “objectively disordered.” The Catechism is very clear that homosexual activity can never be approved and repeats that “(h)omosexual persons are called to chastity.” Homosexual acts are mortal sins; therefore, anyone who commits these sins and does not repent through the sacrament of Confession is in danger of Hell.
On female “ordination,” in his 1994 apostolic letter Ordinatio Sacerdotalis, Pope John Paul II reaffirmed the Church’s perennial teaching that it is impossible for women to validly receive the sacrament of Holy Orders:
Wherefore, in order that all doubt may be removed regarding a matter of great importance, a matter which pertains to the Church’s divine constitution itself, in virtue of my ministry of confirming the brethren (cf. Lk 22:32) I declare that the Church has no authority whatsoever to confer priestly ordination on women and that this judgment is to be definitively held by all the Church’s faithful.
The Roman rite of the Catholic Church has also traditionally required clergy to live in celibacy in order to completely dedicate themselves to Our Lord and the Church.
In Pope Benedict XVI’s 2007 post-apostolic exhortation on the Eucharist, Sacramentum Caritatis, the pontiff wrote in defense of this teaching:
In union with the great ecclesial Tradition, with the Second Vatican Council and my Predecessors in the Petrine Ministry, I affirm the beauty and the importance of a priestly life lived in celibacy as an expressive sign of total and exclusive dedication to Christ, to the Church and to the Kingdom of God, and consequently confirm its obligatory character for the Latin tradition (n. 24).
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And that's why they are insisting on continuing these evil "sin-nods":
Ping
If they were trying to hide their agenda, they did a poor job.
I don’t think they tried to hide it, only to impose it under the guise of process. Cardinal Zen is a truth teller, while many others agree but keep silent. That is why the charade failed in its purpose.
I don’t think they tried to hide it, only to impose it under the guise of process. Cardinal Zen is a truth teller, while many others agree but keep silent. That is why the charade failed in its purpose.
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