Before the Synod Starts: Liquidating the Faith, by Peter Kwasniewski

On the Eve of the Synod: Liquidating the Faith

By Peter Kwasniewski, Rorate Caeli, Sept. 26, 2023

Michael Charlier, Summorum-Pontificum.de, September 25, 2023, (source)

On Wednesday of next week, the Synod (it is no longer a Synod of Bishops because of Pope Francis’ expanded circle of participants) on Synodality will begin in Rome. Its purpose is to set in stone, so to speak, the Pope’s legacy: to make of the one apostolic and hierarchical Church founded by Christ a synodal institution that — as the new administrator of the faith, Fernández, has repeatedly affirmed — should adhere to and follow in everything the teaching of The Pope.

This already points to the double basic contradiction of the event: whatever is discussed and approved in this and the coming year: In the end, Francis and he alone decides what will be published in a more or less solemn form as a final document. And the second level of this contradiction. Whatever Francis will then publish and declare binding: Each of his successors will be able to change it or revoke it again with another stroke of the pen. In the liquefied Church, there are no longer any rules or truths that last longer than the current pontificate – and sometimes only as long as the momentary whim of the currently reigning Spontifex. ….