Jeanie Hannaman

By Bishop Athanasius Schneider, The Catholic Thing - Many questions have arisen about the current “synodal process,” and therefore in order to be of service to Christ’s flock, I would like to address some important points of the Instrumentum Laboris for the October 2023 Session of the Synod on Synodality. This Working Document or Instrumentum appears to undermine the Divine constitution and the Apostolic character of the life and mission of the Catholic Church, substituting for them an invented “synodal church,” inspired predominantly by Protestant, social and anthropocentric categories.

By Fr. Raymond J. de Souza, First Things - After two years of synodal consultations at the diocesan, national, and continental stages, the synodal process on synodality for a synodal Church is now ready for the planetary phase this October... The language employed is not the language of the Bible, the language of Vatican II, or the language of Pope Francis. It is the language of the consultant class, run though the phraseology of ecclesial bureaucracies and decorated with a few biblical citations. The Instrumentum Laboris is laborious indeed. Whether all that labor will be an instrument for anything other than more labor remains to be seen.

By Michael Haynes, LifeSiteNews - Pope Francis has appointed the highly controversial Archbishop Victor Manuel Fernández of La Plata as new Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (now Dicastery)... While the Vatican listed numerous books and written works of Fernández’s, notably missing from the list was his 1995 work “Heal me with your mouth: The art of kissing.” Defending the book, Fernández stated that: [In] these pages I want to synthesize the popular feeling, what people feel when they think of a kiss, what they experience when they kiss…

By Edward Feser, Complicit Clergy - ... when a man is a bad prelate, we should not pretend otherwise merely because of his office... Similarly, a bad prelate merits honor only because of the office he holds. When we pretend his personal faults are not real, strain to attribute good motives to manifestly unjust acts or hidden wisdom to manifestly foolish utterances, we are like someone who fixates on an image and pretends that the many flaws and limitations it contains as a mere piece of matter must somehow really be divine.