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Fr. John A. Perricone: The Synodal Comedy: Act II – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

Fr. John A. Perricone: The Synodal Comedy: Act II

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By Fr. John A. Perricone, Crisis Magazine, Oct. 9, 2024

Fr. John A. Perricone, Ph.D., is an adjunct professor of philosophy at Iona University in New Rochelle, New York. His articles have appeared in St. John’s Law Review, The Latin Mass, New Oxford Review and The Journal of Catholic Legal Studies. He can be reached at www.fatherperricone.com.

 

In the Synodal Sessions, the Faith’s majesty is trampled upon, then traded for the cheap trinkets of the best psychobabble money can buy.

Fr. John A. PerriconeAssaults on the city of Rome, the See of Peter, have not been infrequent over the course of the millennia.

Attila attempted. But he failed when he came into the formidable presence of Leo, called “the Great,” resulting in a dramatic volte-face.

Napoleon conquered Rome in 1809.

The Italian Nationalists of the Risorgimento mounted attacks upon Rome in 1848, forcing Blessed Pius IX to flee in a simple black Roman cassock to Gaeta in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies.

Hitler subdued Rome on June 4, 1944.

Yet none of these can compare to the assault being suffered by Rome today. This time the foe is Synodal Listening—II, and it is nothing less than the squandering of Christ’s salvific inheritance. …

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