A fireworks of metaphors employed in quest to assess its place in Catholic history.
Then there is Washington Post columnist E. J. Dionne who (Oct. 8) thinks
“The assembly that Pope Francis opened in Rome last week is radical, though not in the sense that his right-wing critics have in mind. Its purpose is downright revolutionary for our era: He’s trying to get the Catholic Church’s warring camps to listen to each other.”
But “listen” to what end(s) when so many of the leading Synodal voices are at complete odds with traditional Catholic teaching in Faith and Morals, and when the Second Vatican Council is apparently being repurposed to these predetermined ends?
Pope St. Pius X warning of Progressivists at the turn of the century: “To the laws of evolution everything is subject under penalty of death — dogma, Church, worship, the Books we revere as sacred, even faith itself. The enunciation of this principle will not be a matter of surprise to anyone who bears in mind what the Modernists have had to say about each of these subjects”…More
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