That about says it all

 Randall Smith at the Catholic Thing has an essay about the absurdity of the synodality nonsense (that the big shots in the Catholic church are spending oodles of money pushing)

“The North American Synod Team” says they “heard through the synodal consultations that our people are asking for more robust formation” in synodality and in going out to those on the “margins” of society.

 

It’s odd because I am hearing different voices: from people who want to know how to raise their families; how to live in a society that is increasingly antagonistic toward them; how to ensure their children are getting a good education and formation in the faith. The last thing they want to deal with is Church bureaucracy. They want that part of their lives to just be there for them so they can focus on other things. What to do with a sick elderly parent? How to take care of a disabled child who their Catholic schools won’t take? How to deal with children poisoned by the toxic culture? The document fails to touch on any of these concerns.

italics mine 

A lot of us figure this is a "top down"way to manipulate people in the pew to accept the reformers (such as those in Germany) who have an agenda: And if you object, they can say you are against the Holy Spirit.

But as the author points out: It has little or nothing to do with Jesus, God, or the faith of ordinary Catholics.

And every time I hear PC language about inclusivity etc I am reminded of Gresham's law: bad money drives out good money.

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In other news, I am reading about an incorrupt (i.e. intact) body of a dead nun found in the central USA when the sisters of the Monastery she founded was expanding their buildings, and they decided to rebury her bones inside the church.

But when they did this last week, they were astonished to find her body intact. 

One of them mentioned it in an email, and soon the rumor went around and oodles of folk started traveling to their monastery to view this "miracle"

Here is a short snip about this.

One can almost hear the eyerolls of good Protestants and unbelievers who think the whole thing is a sham at best or just a fraud to raise money.

Behind what is going on here: There is a Catholic idea that sometimes saints bodies remain intact, as a sign by God that they are holy.

This is not just a Catholic idea: Buddhist monks come to mind. But of course, just finding an intact body doesn't mean that person is a saint:  mummies in the desert and the bog bodies and bodies found in ice like Otzi or the Peruvian human sacrifices come to mind.

The experts undoubtably will find a "scientific" explanation of it, and it wouldn't bother me a bit: Because God often uses natural methods to make a point.

So what would the point of this absurdity?

Well, like most good Catholics, a lot of what we call might call miracles is just coincidence. We are in need, and someone just happens to come to help us. When I was in Africa, and took time off to attend medical lectures, I worried about leaving the hospital with no physician. The nuns assured me I shouldn't worry because God knew I was gone, and it was his responsibility. And so, sometimes a medical emergency would occur five minutes before I left, or five minutes after I arrived back from the conference....

Coincidence? Or a sign that God is in control?

so there is an intact body of a nun...is this a miracle or just a natural phenomenum. 

Both. And believe me, I am sure the bishops are gnashing their teeth at this inconvenient occurance.

But what I find interesting is the timing of this happening... coincidence? 

Well, first of all, the nun was African American. Critics laughed at this and I have seen comments saying cynically I guess the US needs a Diversity saint. 

But it does remind people that there are indeed African American Catholics, and Sister Wilhemina taught in Catholic school for years before she left to found this monastery to pray full time.

But at a time when the Pope is busy shutting down convents that do nothing but pray for us sinners, it also could be God (or the nuns) sending him a message to let them alone.

A lot of us noticed that these nuns wore full habits, and the monastery was founded by a group that supports the Latin mass, an act that upsets Pope Francis more than bishops trying to destroy that commandment about adultery.

And of course, all of this happened in a week when the PC Dodgers are planning to honor a hate group of drag queens who ridicule Catholic nuns... 

Coincidence?

Don't tell me God doesn't have a sense of humor about all of this.