Pope Francis with leading members of the Secretariat of the Synod of Bishops
Posted on 07/07/2023 10:13:45 AM PDT by ebb tide
Pope Francis with leading members of the Secretariat of the Synod of Bishops
VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) — The list of participants for the October meeting of the Synod on Synodality has been released, with Pope Francis’ personal choices including Cardinals McElroy, Cupich, and Gregory and Father James Martin.
Issued July 7, the several-hundred strong list of participants for the upcoming 16th General Assembly of the Ordinary Synod of Bishops – or the Synod on Synodality – was distributed by the Vatican and the Synod press office. It is comprised of normal members, as governed by the Apostolic Constitution Episcopalis Communio, but also of the participants specifically appointed by Pope Francis.
As such, a differentiation can be observed between the delegates chosen by their own local churches or bishops’ conferences to participate in the Synod, and those personally picked by Pope Francis.
There are fifty names among the Pope’s personal choices for voting members of the Synod. They include cardinals, bishops, priests, and religious sisters. Among the most notable of the papal picks are:
In light of the announcement, veteran Vatican journalist Edward Pentin stated that a “senior Church leader” told him recently that some of these clerics “don’t have any criteria of objective, methodological and correct theology. They no longer have the objectivity of divine revelation, only a subjective understanding, according to prejudices.”
Participants of the Synod included delegates from bishops’ conferences around the world, selected by the local bishops’ conferences themselves. Numerous prefects and leading members of the Roman Curia also make the cut, as do members of the Secretariat of the Synod.
READ: Pope Francis to personally select lay men, women to form up to 25% of Synodal vote
As reported in April, Pope Francis has made changes to the organizational structure of the Synod, meaning that for the first time laity will have voting rights in the Assembly of Bishops. He personally selected the 70 non-bishop members. Furthermore, the Synod on Synodality will be joined by other “experts” who will not have the right to vote, and are thus not given the title “Member of the Assembly.”
Such “experts” – heavily drawn from the “experts” who complied the October 2022 working document for the continental stage – will be joined by other “facilitators.”
There are also those who have been invited as “special invitees” or “fraternal delegates,” who do not hold voting rights at the assemblies. Similar in that they do not hold voting rights, the “Experts and Facilitators” only participate and advise.
Among the “special invitees” is Fr. Alois, the prior of the Taize community. He is heavily involved in leading an ecumenical prayer vigil in St. Peter’s Square that is intended to further the “path to Christian unity and the path of synodal conversion of the Church.”
Meanwhile the notoriously pro-LGBT English Dominican Father Timothy Radcliffe is listed as one of two “spiritual assistants.” Fr. Radcliffe O.P. was personally invited by the Pope to lead a pre-Synodal retreat for the bishops; his long history of homosexual advocacy seems not to have been an inhibiting factor.
READ: Pope invites notorious pro-LGBT priest to lead key Synod retreat for bishops
As noted, a large number of the “experts” are those who compiled the 2022 Synodal working document, and include figures such as papal biographer Austen Ivereigh; Monsignor Piero Coda, the Secretary of the Pontifical International Theological Commission which advises the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith; the pro-contraception and pro-homosexual Monsignor Philippe Bordeyne, the Dean of the revamped Pontifical John Paul II Theological Institute for the Sciences of Marriage and the Family.
LifeSiteNews has highlighted the records of such Synod “experts” in previous reporting.
The Synod will convene on October 4, with the participants meeting in the Paul VI Audience Hall at the Vatican.
As noted by the Synod team, all the members and additional experts will take part in the two sessions of the Synod in Rome. The first will take place this October and the second in October 2024.
When Pope Francis is not present, a total of nine president delegates will assume the operating control of proceedings “in the name and by the authority” of the Pope. These nine are:
Cardinal Hollerich, as relator general, will play a key role. He will deliver a report at the start of the entire proceeding and at the start of each section of the meeting, presenting the issues to be covered. He will also be in charge of summarizing the work of the October Assembly in a text to serve as the basis for the 2024 Assembly.
The Secretariat for the Synod recently released the text which will guide discussions at the 2023 synodal assembly. It presented topics such as women’s diaconal “ordination,” married priests, and a need to “welcome” the “remarried divorcees, people in polygamous marriages, LGBTQ+ people.”
READ: Major Synod on Synodality document highlights need to ‘welcome’ polygamists, ‘LGBTQ+ people’
Participants at the assembly will study the document, along with the worksheets provided, which can be used for “in-depth thematic meetings in a synodal style at all levels of Church life.” Each worksheet contains questions for discussion. These include questions for increased female governance, more acceptance for LGBT individuals, married priests, and the future of ecclesiastical governance.
Notably, the widely accepted, and papally approved, interpretation of Amoris Laetitia as allowing the divorced and “re-married” to Holy Communion was presented as an already finalized issue in the document which the assembly members will discuss.
Commenting on the list of participants, Deacon Nick Donnelly argued that the event was a means to promote homosexuality to the Church.
“Bergoglio really isn’t hiding the fact that the goal of the synod on Synodality is about defying God’s commands against sodomites,” he wrote. “When you add into the mix the fact that Timothy Radcliffe is leading the pre-synod retreat you realize the fix is in for the synod force through the acceptance of sodomy.”
Sin-Nod Ping
He’s a Fag Jim
Is this going to be a synod, or a coke-fueled homosexual orgy?
Pope Francis is not a servant of Jesus, but satan!
How is this is a synod if it excludes valid bishops and includes non-bishops?
They don’t give a crap at this point. The whole damned thing is a rigged dog-and-pony show to transform the Catholic Church into Episcopal Church USA, rainbow banners and all.
There’s an Episcopal church nearby. For June they had all these little rainbow flags stuck in the ground up front near a busy road. There’s no way to reconcile it with either the Old or the New Testament. The root of the problem is a number of people in the Catholic Church and in dying denominations do not believe the Bible is the infallible Word of God but believe it to be a human book capable of error.
And there we go. The first pro homosexual and pro abortion pope. Just shows how Marxism is more powerful than even God to some people.
If he hasn’t already, look for him to infest seminaries with like-minded vermin, as though the reputations of seminaries isn’t already in the dirt.
Episcopal would be a way station on the road to being the UCC.
Commie Pope
Antichrist.
This sinful and wayward Pope can pick all the heretics he wants, but the Church of Jesus Christ will never ever change a single word of the Gospel and the the truth remains. The Synod can take all the dialogue they want to invite sinners to the Catholic Church, but they must repent and die to their old lives and be reborn to salvation. The Church does not condone or allow LBGT anything and if you become a Catholic you renounce those sins. If the Church through the Synod thinks they can change Church doctrine they are mistaken and will be thrown out as heretics.
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