the call to heresy

 the Pope is trying to change the catholic church. People who believe are being marginalized of course. And this is why the Pope is aghast that a certain group of believers objects and sees through his shennanigans.

First we have oodles of money on synodality meetings at the local level: But not filled with ordinary folks who are asking for the church to preach to them the good news, but with the "marginal"... and not the true marginal (like the homeless addicts sleeping on the sidewalk) but activists who think the church needs to change to approve of their sins. Read those who reject traditional Christian morality at the diocese level. And now we see him calling a meeting of bishops to discuss these things, except the meeting will include a lot of hand picked toadies who will push the party line.

and just to make sure the bishops know they have to kowtow to his agenda, in the next big bishops meeting, handpicked activists will be there to vote down anyone who dares to object.

Duh.

I have said this before: It reminds me of the encounter groups of the 1960s where we were supposed to discuss stuff and bare our souls, but in reality it was to manipulate us to agree with the so called "Facilitators". I usually lied through my teeth when asked to talk about personal matters, and kept silent the rest of the time or got someone to beep me out for an "emergency" when these things were planned in medical school or my residency. 

And of course these things remind me of the propaganda stuff that cannot be questioned. This week all the news stories seem to be of global warming, and when I hear they want to bring the world back to "pre industrial" times, I wonder if they know about something called the little ice age, where famines from the cold led to revolutions and food riots. 

and of course, the anti fossil fuel zealots policies are increasing the price of fertilizer and diesel needed to farm: not to mention the war against farmers and dairy cattle in several countries. 

in the meanwhile, the west if pushing a sexual agenda on countries that will destroy the family the same as it is in the west.

and although Pope Francis talks against this, his minions are busy pushing this agenda, and the synods are going to be the way to prove the "holy spirit" is behind this change.

alas the removal of Catholic opposition to such policies is going at full speed ahead;

the CWN article points out that this is the 1970s redux. and that the language is being distorted in an Orwellian fashion

It seems, then, that the freight train of dialogue travels along tracks that move in only one direction—a secular liberal one—and the decision has been made that the synod will privilege only those voices in order to reach the already determined conclusions. “Synodality” thus emerges as a cynical game and a strategic ruse to bring in through the backdoor what you cannot simply bring directly in through the front door. It is the destruction of the very concept of “truth” in theology and its replacement with a purely sociologistic and political calculus. Thus, you are either a political “enemy” or a “friend” of Pope Francis, and this is the only important category. Pope Francis has said many wonderful things about the aims of the Synod and that he has cautioned against this kind of neo-modernist theologizing. But his closest friends and allies, in their various writings on the upcoming Synod, and his many episcopal appointments—e.g. Archbishop Fernandez as head of the DDF—argue otherwise. Constantly and consistently, Pope Francis’s actions undermine his words and in no way instill confidence that his governing of the Church will avoid turning the keys to the palace over to the theological Vandals who have been camping outside the gates for sixty years.

italics mine.

Sigh. 

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bishop Barron cautions not to be too strictly.

But at least Bishop could you notice that there are weeds there?