How the Pope plans to remake the church into a church of woke

All the shennanigans about the synod on the family  and the plans for various areas to hold synodality meetings with the (prechosen) faithful, supposedly to get grass roots input into the Catholic church, is of course just manipulation:

a call for much greater roles of women at all levels in the future of Church; attention to sexuality, relationships and LGBTQI+ concerns; references to topics such as education and catechesis, youth, family and co-responsible leadership, lay ministry, culture and the impact of Covid-19; as well as to faith formation, clergy and liturgy". 

Yup.Sounds familiar doesn't it?

In other words, in many, if not most areas, the agenda has already been decided by the big shots, and one truly doubts they will allow nay sayers to get their two cents in.

reminds me of the encounter groups of the 1960s, 

where we were encouraged to bare our soul to others in the group in order to promote group solidarity. 

Once this had been done, our defenses would be down so it was easly for the leaders to manipulate us to go along with the newfangled ideas we would usually oppose, such as when those running the groups explained why abortion was okay and ridiculing anyone who didn't join in the sexual revolution.

So when I see the so called Pope pull the same shennanigans, I am a bit suspicious. 

One suspects that he will use the liberal bishops in Germany to push his agenda of reform. 

Will it succeed? Who knows. 

The Filipino bishops are deep into ecology so will probably go along with it, but will the strong lay groups here (CFC, alliance of the two hearts, and the various charismatic groups) manage to influence them here?

and one wonders how their agenda will play with the  African bishops. Will they hold the line on these trendier than thou ideas, as the African bishops are doing in the Anglican church?

 Anyone following this psychodrama knows that Pope Francis a disaster for the church: but hey, don't criticize the pope because that makes you a heretic or worse, a right wing ultra maga type. (I guess St Catherine of Sienna and St Athanasius are now in that category). 

the dirty little secret is that Pope Francis says both A and Anti A, and often while he is saying good stuff he is sneaking around arranging the exact opposite to be done by his minions who are doing the dirty work.

The plans are now out in the open, and Italian journalist Sandro Magister, has the details of the attempt to impose a not-so-secret plan over opposition.

the first step was to let divorced folks who have remarried outside the church receive communion. This would essentially make the sacrament a mere feel good event, ignoring the Catholic belief that the sacrament is the body and blood of Christ and Paul's warning to take the sacrament with reverence (1 Cor 11: 28-34) because it is something very holy.

Ah, but the bishops opposed this when he held a meeting, so no more meetings with his bishops.

then the Vatican held a synod on the family which also had a prewritten document ready to release that was supposed to relate what was agreed upon. 

someone noticed the scam and so the document was rewritten but someone didn't notice the two small footnotes, and voila, the modernist minions were happy to ask Francis if they should allow people living in sin or not members of the church to receive the sacrament, and in a private letter he said sure, why not...

We see the same type of shennanigans in the present meeting on Family in Rome, which is all about holiness in family life (but at the same time sowing confusion by welcoming the gay community  in a way that ignores the physical and spiritual dangers of the gay lifestyl, which is an insult to gays who live a life fighting temptations who are trying to live a life of holiness.)

So now we have Synodality plans not written in theological language but in the language of sociology which implies if you don't make your life into serving the church you don't count.... Nope, no Jesus here, folks, just move along. 

FatherZ has a link to the actual document in pdf form. and fisks one very greeny paragraph: Pray for reptiles.

I promise you I am not making this up. A reader clued me in. On page document page 29 (PDF page 31). Discernment, then, is also an opening of the heart in love and mercy to all things. As St Isaac of Nineveh (St Isaac the Syrian) expresses it: What is a merciful heart? It is a heart on fire for the whole of creation, for humanity, for the birds, for the animals, for demons, and for all that exists. ... And in like manner, such a person prays for the family of reptiles because of the great compassion that burns without measure in a heart that is in the likeness of God.

yup. Pray for everyone. I do, actually, but let me kill the snakes first, please... But notice the quote is about you and your merciful heart, not about Jesus.

Similarly, the trendy tree is missing something:

 the tree of life is a symbol of the church, but it is also the symbol of sin in the garden of eden. So traditionally, the tree of life becomes the tree of the cross, where sin was destroyed.

But notice something about this tree? nothing about Jesus who is the center of being a Christian.

There are oodles of prophecies out there that the Pope and bishops will destroy the church, but in the end the layfolk and a few honest bishops will save it, but maybe only after a major persecution. Similar to how St Athanasius rescued the church against the more popular idea that hey, Jesus was just a superman, not God.

Pope Francis and his minions haven't quite lapsed into that heresy (yet) but the gradual destruction of the idea of the holiness of God is being pushed out of the church in favor of a life of being a SJW, and the helpful MSM is happy about this. Indeed, if you just read the MSM you would think the Vatican had it all in control, that might not be true: 

Vatican expert and reporter Sandro Magister a couple months ago reported that someone was passing a memo around to the bishops that objected to this. 

after pointing out the silence of Pope Francis in stopping heretical bishops, they get to the real problem of his attempt to remake the church into a secular institution:

2. The Christo-centricity of teaching is being weakened; Christ is being moved from the centre. Sometimes Rome even seems to be confused about the importance of a strict monotheism, hinting at some wider concept of divinity; not quite pantheism, but like a Hindu panentheism variant. 

which leads us into the Pachimama debacle: 

 (A) Pachamama is idolatrous; perhaps it was not intended as such initially.

There were multiple claims about what was going on with this idol: none of which were actually clarified. But given the fact that

the irony is that pachimama and Amazon tribes were being used to push another agenda (married priests) at a time when the Amazon tribes are conveting to protestantism en masse. And I'm sure the pious Baptists in Brazil are happy that the Pope has just affirmed their claim the church worships pagan idols.  

Ironically, it wasn't a bishop but an ordinary layman who took the idol off it's altar and threw it into the Tiber. LOL.

The memo also asks why the Vatican is pushing back on groups of praying folks: both the cloistered orders who pray quite a lot, and the lay folks belonging to various charismatic groups who pray loudly and with enthusiasm and who are important here in the third world.

then the memo laments how some are trying to destroy moral rules that date back 3200 years to instruct people on right and wrong: 

the memo points out how Pope Francis essentially destroyed the intellectuals who were defendingthe "gospel of life" which was clarified by John Paul II against what he called the culture of death, where abortion and euthansia of the old and handicapped would be pushed as compassionate but actually was becoming a policy to save money and free people from responsibility of caring for them.

 (C) The Christo-centric legacy of St. John Paul II in faith and morals is under systematic attack. Many of the staff of the Roman Institute for the Family have been dismissed; most students have left. The Academy for Life is gravely damaged, e.g., some members recently supported assisted suicide. The Pontifical Academies have members and visiting speakers who support abortion.

which explains the lack of enthusiasm of the Pope and alas too many bishops when the Supreme court rolled back a decision on RoeVWade that even Ruth Bader Ginsburg criticized for it's power grab, i.e. using the court to pass a law instead of normal folks.

By the way: the MSM is not reporting what the Supreme court actually said (essentially saying the people, through their elected officials, should make the law) nor is the MSM putting it into the context of other recent court rulings that are stopping the abuse of unelected bureaucrats, who essentially are rewriting the laws passed by Congress to the point of distorting the original purpose of these laws, or by courts who make it a point not to obey the law but to make the law, something which is not in their job description.\

But of course the church is not a democracy: yet the Pope is not a dictator who can disoby the rule of law either.

and when he does things that go against the bible and the traditions of the church, more people leave the church, some to just stay home, others to churches that still acknowledge that Jesus is Lord.

Until Pope Francis stops his deceptions and intrigues and lies, the church will continue to hemorrhage members, because we prefer to hear sermons on Jesus and holiness and how to serve God in the duties of our daily life, not a sermon on how we need to protect the environment like I had to listen to last Sunday: 

and this was at the 5:30 am mass, full of tricycle drivers and palenke workers who attend early so they can go to work. Many people here have problems on how to make ends meet after a two year shut down of the economy, and they came to church to worship God and to meet him to get spiritual strength to make it through another week of hard work. They needed a sermon to assure them God loves them, and they got an eco sermon that had nothing to do with the struggles of their daily lives.