Leo XIV has repudiated the authority of the Catholic Church: here’s howSynodality not only diminishes ecclesiastical authority but destroys it. On June 26, Leo XIV told an “extraordinary consistory” of cardinals that they “are called to be builders of Christ’s communion, a communion that takes shape in a synodal Church.” [1]The construction of the Synodal Church, which accompanies the building of a new society called variously the “city of God,” the “new Jerusalem,” and the “civilization of love,” was a central theme of his recent “encyclical letter” Magnifica Humanitas.Leo told the cardinals that during the consistory they would “explore Magnifica...