Interview: Does the Synod Concluding Document Contains a ‘Blueprint’ for a New Church? by Michael Haynes

By Michael Haynes, American TFP, December 4, 2023

Julio Loredo de Izcue, TFP member and co-author of the book titled The Synodal Process Is A Pandora’s Box, assesses the post-Synod Synthesis Report in an interview with LifeSiteNews Rome correspondent Michael Haynes. (An online and downloadable copy of the book can be found in the links provided, and print copies can be ordered here)

The TFP website publishes it with permission. (https://www.lifesitenews.com/analysis/exclusive-synod-document-contains-blueprint-for-a-new-church-theologian-warns/)

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LifeSite: In the opening lines of the book you co-authored with Mr. José Antonio Ureta, you mentioned how the Synod on Synodality was part of “a plan is afoot to reform Holy Mother Church which, carried to its final consequences, could subvert her very foundations.”

Mr. Julio Loredo: The crisis within the Church is by no means recent, nor is it just a consequence of Vatican Council II. Its roots stretch further back. In the theological field, we can trace its proximate origins from Liberal Catholicism, through Modernism and Nouvelle Théologie, down to the current errors. In the social field, we can trace its origins from left-wing Social Catholicism, through “Christian” Socialism and liberation theology, down to the current progressive tendencies. So, we are speaking of a centuries-old process. ….