Polish Catholics, led by Dr Artur Dąbrowski, president of Catholic Action of the Archdiocese of Częstochowa, have issued a detailed open letter to priests and synodal participants condemning the Final Document of the Synod on Synodality as “deeply anti-Catholic” and a systematic attempt to replace the unchanging Deposit of Faith with an ideology of inclusion and process.
The letter, published in recent days, analyses the Synod’s Working Group 9 report and the Final Document issued on October 26, 2024, accusing it of mirroring the heterodox German Synodal Path through decentralisation and relativisation of doctrine. The Polish faithful describe the document as constructing “a framework for the Church’s new identity” that subordinates the Deposit of Faith to a fluid “ideology of inclusivity” rather than leading souls to salvation, as reported by LifeSiteNews and journalist Antonino Cambria.
The authors are particularly critical of the synodal method known as “conversation in the Spirit”. They write: “This method deliberately equates the voice of those who faithfully adhere to Church teaching with the voices of those who openly contest it.” Each participant is limited to two minutes without the right to debate, making substantive defence of doctrine impossible. The letter warns that this approach elevates subjective opinions to the status of the “voice of the Holy Spirit”, creating a dangerous illusion of divine guidance through engineered consensus.
Central to the critique is the document’s redefinition of conversion. The Poles note that instead of moral conversion involving repentance and turning from sin, the text presents conversion as “a purely mental process”, speaking of “the conversion of feelings, images, and thoughts present in our hearts”, “conversion of relationships”, “decision-making processes” and “conversion of structures”. They state: “This phrasing exposes the authors’ intention: the goal is not, therefore, a transformation of life in the light of the Gospel, but a profound revision of the Catholic perception of reality.”
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