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Paradigm Shifts and the End of Catholic Moral Doctrine, by Monica Miller – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

Paradigm Shifts and the End of Catholic Moral Doctrine, by Monica Miller

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Screenshot. Crisis Magazine, June 5, 2026

By Monica Miller, Crisis Magazine, June 5, 2026

Monica Miller, Ph.D., is the Director of Citizens for a Pro-life Society. She holds a degree in Theatre Arts from Southern Illinois University and graduate degrees in Theology from Loyola University and Marquette University. She is the author of several books including The Theology of the Passion of the Christ (Alba House) and, most recently, The Authority of Women in the Catholic Church (Emmaus Road) and Abandoned: The Untold Story of the Abortion Wars (St. Benedict Press).

“The Synodal Church” is making a move to end Natural Law as the basis of the Moral Law…but that’s impossible.

The Church’s mission is not a matter of abstractly proclaiming and deductively applying principles that are set out in an immutable and rigid manner, but of fostering a living encounter with the person of the risen Lord Jesus, by engaging with the lived experience of faith of the People of God in its personal and social relevance, in relation to the diverse situations of life and the many cultural contexts. Only the fruitful tension between what has been established in the Church’s doctrine and Her pastoral practice and the practices of life in which what has been established is verified, in the exercise of personal and communal life in the light of the Gospel, expresses the generative dynamism of Tradition: against the temptation of the sterile and regressive ossification of principles and statements, of norms and rules, regardless of the experience of individuals and communities. As Jesus taught, “the Sabbath was made for humankind, and not humankind for the Sabbath” (Mark 2:27).

This quote above is taken directly from the Synod on Synodality Study Group No. 9’s Final Report focused on Theological Criteria and Synodal Methodologies for Shared Discernment of Emerging Doctrinal, Pastoral and Ethical Issues. This quote gives readers just a taste of the jargon employed throughout Study Group No. 9’s Final Report with special emphasis on what is called “a paradigm shift.”

The paradigm shift articulated in the above quote namely is this: The “immutable” Church’s propositions regarding Catholic morality deemed “rigid,”…“sterile and regressive ossification of principles…regardless of the experience of individuals and communities” is now replaced by discerning the “lived experience of faith” with attention to the “situations of life” with “particular care…given to those who find themselves living on the existential, social, and cultural peripheries.” …

Paradigm Shifts and the End of Catholic Moral Doctrine, by Monica Miller

Afflicted With TDS, Four Senators Kill Election Integrity, by David Catron

Daily Scripture Readings and Meditations: Rejoice and Be Glad, for Your Reward Is Great in Heaven

By Monica Miller, Crisis Magazine, June 5, 2026

“The Synodal Church” is making a move to end Natural Law as the basis of the Moral Law…but that’s impossible.

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