Synod: Bishop Schneider Attacks the Penitential Ceremony
Bishop Athanasius Schneider
Bishop Athanasius Schneider has roundly criticized the penitential ceremony scheduled to take place at the end of the spiritual retreat inaugurating the Synod on the evening of October 1, calling it a “tool” to advance an agenda designed to promote change in the Church.
The Auxiliary Bishop of Astana gave an interview on Raymond Arroyo's The World Over program on EWTN, reported by LifeSiteNews. Bishop Schneider strongly accused the penitential ceremony planned for the beginning of the Synod of intending to establish the Synod's novelties on a permanent basis.
As previously reported on this site, the sins to be accused, as the Synod document describes them, are:
- Sin against peace
- Sin against creation, against indigenous populations, against migrants
- Sin of abuse
- Sin against women, family, youth
- Sin of using doctrine as stones to be hurled
- Sin against poverty
- Sin against synodality / lack of listening, communion, and participation of all
The “sin of using doctrine as stones to be hurled” was first criticized by the Bishop. He stated truthfully and very astutely that “such new invented doctrines in this so called synodality, these are the true stones which they throw to the faithful, because they are distortions and these are harming the faithful and putting in danger their eternal salvation.”
As for “sin against synodality,” he recalled that there are “no such sins in divine revelation.” Bishop Schneider called it “a tool to promote a new agenda in the Synod to establish new doctrines which are contrary to divine revelation, or undermine divine revelation.”
He affirmed that true charity includes the transmission of Catholic doctrine: “A true doctrine is not against charity: to transmit doctrine is one of the highest expressions of charity towards a neighbor, to bring them to the right of truth and the light of truth only gives us true happiness.”
Bishop Schneider added that “Such confused new synodal doctrines and methods bring us ambiguity, uncertainty, and this no one will give his life for something which is ambiguous. We will only give our life for what is true, for what is solid as a rock, which is Christ – He is the rock, he is the truth and only for Him. With [...] grace, every Christian must be ready to give his life.”
Fr. Murray’s Condemnation
LifeSiteNews also quotes “New York priest and canonist” Fr. Gerald Murray, who issued a similar condemnation. “Speaking also with Arroyo on The World Over, Murray attested that the event ‘is the politicization of the examination of conscience.’ ‘This basically could’ve been a review of a political agenda for a political convention,’ he quipped.
“Murray’s scathing critique likened the event to scenes from communist dictatorships: ‘This is like group think, this is like 1984. If I don’t think exactly what the leaders of the Synod think about synodality, then I’m guilty of a sin?’”
Or “Soviet show trials,” he continued, “or Communist Chinese show trials [...] You don’t confess other people’s sins,” alluding to the fact that Pope Francis will be asking forgiveness of “God and to the sisters and brothers of all humanity … on behalf of all the faithful.”
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(Sources : InfoCatolica/LifeSiteNews/The World Over - FSSPX.Actualités)
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