Surviving the Synod
By Mark Dooley, European Conservative.
(Editor’s note: this comment on Roman Catholicism could well apply to many other denominations!)
The sad fact is that the Church has lost faith in the Gospel. That is why it seeks to promote a new gospel of inclusion, equality, and environmentalism. The best way to survive the synod is simply to ignore it.
As we approach the so-called Synod on Synodality in Rome (4th-29th of October, 2023), I would like to offer a modest suggestion as to how we might survive it. The firestorm surrounding this global gathering threatens not only to aggrieve faithful Catholics further, who have borne the brunt of Pope Francis’s innumerable figaries, but it has the real potential to end in schism. The latest decree from the Papal guesthouse is that there will be a media blackout on discussions inside the synod. Excellent news! After all, who could bear the hourly updates on why the Synod fathers and mothers desire the Church to be centred on synodality rather than salvation, or why science has disproved St. Paul’s teachings on sexuality—despite the fact that, as he writes in Galatians, he received them “through a revelation of Jesus Christ.”
That we are in such a tragic predicament should, however, come as no surprise to those who took note of the Pope’s refusal to wear the papal mozzetta and stole on the night of his election in 2013. Such seemingly humble gestures signalled that this was to be a papacy of radical reform of everything from the Petrine Office to the Gospel itself. The good news is, however, that despite Francis’s rush to consolidate his legacy, there is nothing in that legacy that cannot be undone by a future pontiff.
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