A “Synodal” Church Deaf to the Word of God
How could the “synodal” Church come to promote the blessing of religiously unmarried or same-sex couples (Fiducia Supplicans, 18 December 2023)? How could she conform to the present century, against the warning of St. Paul: nolite conformari huic sæculo (Rom. 12:2)? How could she--always ready to listen to migrants, ecologists, the peripheries--be so deaf to Tradition?
These questions each arise in the face of the distressing sight of men of the Church who court the world, its intellectual fashions and immoral caprices. Must we resign ourselves and endure this? Two observations allow us to better understand the situation and react.
On one hand, the current Roman authorities, seeing that the Church today is discredited, imagine that she will be able to regain her lost influence, by running after the modern world and its pseudo-values.
On the other hand, the powerful of this world institutionalize and legalize ever more the triple concupiscence denounced by St. John (1 Jn. 2:15-17), but they nevertheless desire that the Church--lacking recognition--provide sacred support to their consumerist hedonism, by blessing its “values.” A sinister alliance!
The “synodal” Church, because she betrays her mission by following the world, encounters resistance from cardinals, bishops, priests, and faithful. She wants to subdue them and becomes dictatorial. By opposing the celebration of the traditional Mass, she hopes to neutralize those who, through their attachment to this liturgy, obviously show her betrayal.
Vocations are drying up, religious practice is collapsing, the churches are emptying... So she must again and always adapt to the modern world, to its way of thinking and living. Secular enculturation is obligatory, clericalism is the only enemy.
This is why the “synodal” Church is, with regard to this world, so attentive and so talkative. This is why, regarding Tradition, she is at times deaf and dumb, at times on the offensive and determined to eradicate all that contradicts her. Being synodal is “walking together,” willingly or unwillingly!
Such is, hastily summarized, the profound analysis of Fr. Davide Pagliarani, Superior General of the Society of Saint Pius X, whose conference given at the Courrier de Rome conference on January 13 will be profitably read.
At the end of this day of studies, we said to ourselves that, if she could, the “synodal” Church would bring Moses down from Mount Sinai no longer with the Tablets of the Law, but with the Declaration of the Rights of Man.
And we felt more than ever attached, with every fiber of our being, to Tradition, as Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre declared on November 21, 1974: “We adhere with all our hearts, all our souls, to Catholic Rome, guardian of the Catholic Faith and the traditions necessary to maintain this Faith, to eternal Rome, mistress of wisdom and truth.”
Fr. Alain Lorans
(Source : NDC 205 - FSSPX.Actualités)
