Synod
Synod Reports Call For ‘Gender Equality’ In Church Governance
The Synod issued two new reports this week that include promoting “gender equality” across all positions within the Catholic Church. On September 8, the General Secretariat of the Synod published ...
WATCH: Why Is Evangelization Under Attack in the Catholic Church?
Raymond Arroyo, Fr. Gerald Murray and Robert Royal examine the growing resistance to evangelization, the controversy over proselytizing, and whether the Church is losing sight of its fundamental mission: bringing ...
Vatican Synod Proposes Lay Involvement In Choosing New Bishops
The Synod published two new reports calling for lay faithful and other ecclesial groups to take a more direct role in bishops’ decisions and visits to Rome. On September 8, ...
Cardinal Brandmüller: Synodality Partly Inspired By Protestantism
A prominent cardinal expert on Church history has warned that the current style of synod being promoted in the Church is partly inspired by Protestantism and is part of the ...
Synodalism Is Modernism: From Being Condemned To Being Enthroned By Rome
Pope Pius X's Oath Against Modernism was required to be taken by clergy, pastors, confessors, preachers, religious superiors, and seminary professors of philosophy and theology from 1910 until it was ...
WATCH: Fr. Gerald Murray On Synodality
"Zero is the number of parishioners who have come up to me in the last four years praising synodality." Fr. Gerald Murray has been a parish priest in New York ...
Synodality, Vatican II and the Heresy of Modernism
Introduction The thesis of this essay is that there is a very strong connection between the form of Synodality that has been and is being espoused by Pope Francis and ...
Synodalism Marches On: Martyrs Need Not Apply
Martyrs spilled their blood for Truth come down from Heaven. For the Synodalist, there is no truth, only transactional process. Who would die for that? For the Synodalist, truth is ...
Cologne Cardinal: Defining Synodality A ‘Major Challenge’ For Church
Defining synodality is a “major challenge” for the Church, Cologne’s Cardinal Rainer Woelki has said, while also urging parity between the Novus Ordo and the traditional Mass. Cardinal Woelki has ...
Synodality Will Kill Catholicism
The Catholic Church has always distinguished itself from other Christian bodies by its claim to possess, and be bound by, a deposit of faith handed down from the Apostles. The Church ...
Synodality, Father Murray & the Catholic Dilemma
Father Gerald E. Murray, writing in a recent article for The Catholic Thing, titled Selling Radical ‘Synodality’ as ‘Social Prophecy’, raised fairly provocative questions which align with my previous post ...
WATCH: Just Another Week in the New Synodal Church
Raymond Arroyo, Fr. Gerald Murray, and Robert Royal examine growing questions over the direction of synodality as bishops and cardinals call on Rome to finally define what it means—and whether ...
When Abnormal Becomes Normal
Okay. So, I don’t really talk too much about the news, specifically. That is to say, I haven’t really focused on particular headlines. Typically, The Weltgeist touches on the macro-view ...
Walking Together, But Towards What?
The Synod Secretariat says there can be no synodality without ecumenism. There is no doubt that there is something profoundly attractive about the language of ecumenism, it certainly speaks to ...
Fr. Murray: Selling Radical ‘Synodality’ as ‘Social Prophecy’
A close look at Sister Becquart’s remarks reveals them to be an exercise in sloganeering. The recent annual Assembly of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious received a video message ...
‘Sea of Gray’ Listens To Leo’s Call For Them To Become ‘Synodality Experts’
No young woman gives her entire life to something that resembles an NGO with memories. The Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR), which brings together the superiors of approximately two-thirds ...
If Synodality Is Not a Programme, Why Is the Church Implementing It?
Something rather revealing happened this week in the continuing story of the waste of time and resources we know as the Synod on Synodality. Two interventions appeared which, when placed ...
Bishop Mutsaerts: ‘The World Is Not Waiting for a Synodal Church’
Auxiliary Bishop Rob Mutsaerts of ‘s-Hertogenbosch has become the latest prelate to criticise synodality, asking what are its fruits and voicing deep skepticism about its entire model — one, he ...
BRAVO! Bishop of Oslo Sets Limits on Synodality: “It is Not Up to Us to Decide on Matters of Faith and Morals”
The Bishop of Oslo, Fredrik Hansen, has announced the convocation of the first diocesan synod of the Catholic Church in Oslo and has made clear from the outset which matters ...
Introducing the “Synodal Church”
Since 2019-2020, during the reign of Bergoglio (‘Pope’ Francis), Catholics were discombobulated with the introduction of a bizarre phrase never before known or heard by the most well-known theologians, historians, ...
Synodality Against Priesthood
Leo XIV has just confirmed that synodality remains in force and vigorous. He has done so through new notes addressed to bishops and synodal teams to prepare the diocesan assemblies ...
