The Goal of the Synodal Takeover of the Church Is the Corruption of Priests! Thank God for the SSPX!

Remember Good-Bye Good Men, Michael Rose's book about the attack on orthodox men aspiring to the priesthood? Corrupt seminaries welcoming homosexuals bearing nicknames like The Pink Palace (St. Mary's in Baltimore) had gatekeepers to make sure only those who supported women's ordination, homosexuality, changes in moral teaching on sexuality, etc. were accepted. Those "rigid" Catholics, men who loved the faith as taught over the millennia, were blacklisted, excluded, and expelled especially if they had the temerity to tell seminary rectors about being approached by their gay classmates. Actually, sometimes they were approached by faculty. And they often ended up being told they were unfit for the priesthood. 

If you want to damage the Church, attack the shepherds and the aspiring shepherds. That, in essence, is exactly what the Synod on Synodality is all about. Fr. Z recommends Dr. Ashenden's video as one all Catholics should watch. I echo that. The Planned Synodal Takover of the Catholic Church by Dr. Gavin Ashenden, a convert from Anglicanism who served as the Queen's chaplain for a number of years, is a must view! We need to know exactly what is causing the crisis in the Church. This video lays out one aspect exposing the sinister goal of the wolves running the synod.

Dr. Ashenden warns a few minutes into the video that, "A dreadful suspicion is emerging that [the synodal process] is acting as an interim means to change the nature of faith itself." He discusses a conversation with Rome correspondent, Edward Pentin who has traced the synods since the Synod on the Family ten years ago and believes that they are a "stalking horse for a progressive revision of Catholic ethics and faith." 

Dr. Ashenden's video blows the warning trumpet. The synod is nothing but the latest episode in a dystopian process that began with the Synod on the Family a decade ago. Its object? To change the Church into a worldly institution indistinguishable from Protestant sects. The goal is so patently obvious and so patently inconsistent with Church teaching that sensible Catholics should give the Synod a wide berth except to organize prayer vigils with Jericho marches, blessed salt, and holy water. The synodal process is not evil of itself, but in the hands of curial wolves, it is being used to undermine the faith. It is not a movement of the Holy Spirit and, since the organizers rarely mention Jesus Christ or anything remotely Catholic, that fact is obvious.

These bureaucratic blather sessions have nothing to do with enriching the faith or dealing with real Church issues and problems. The authors of the working document, according to Dr. Ashenden "have given the hungry a spiritual stone...." The Jesus in the Instrumentum Laboris is "not the Jesus of the Gospel."

And, if it's not Jesus, who do you think it is?

Here are a few take-aways from this excellent summary of the scandalous working document:

• "Radical repentance and conversion in the gospels are replaced...by radical inclusion and acceptance...." acceptance particularly of those living disordered lifestyles, "the alphabet people."
• The document bears "the fingerprints of progressive Leftism" with emphasis on war, climate change, and alienation, with a focus on "listening" to those who "for the first time" feel listened to.
• The document is "profoundly sub-Christian" ignoring original sin and the necessity of conversion to focus instead on "listening" and "walking together."
• The document is filled with "psycho-babble."
• Is "authentic listening" just walking together with "unobservant Catholics?"
• Dr. Ashenden emphasizes how nonsensical the Instrumentum Laboris is with its "endlessly repeated aphorisms of subjective relativism immersed in constant therapeutic truisms." 

Dr. Ashenden's summary of the synod goal is chilling in the extreme:

• "The authors actually have greater and more sinister ambitions in their minds...they are forming something so radically different from the Catholic Church and practice that it has a name. The name is Synodal Catholicism and the aspiration is a takeover of the seminaries and the clergy. Listen to this: 'Candidates for ordained ministry must be trained in a synodal style and mentality. The promotion of a culture of synodality implies the renewal of the current seminary curriculum and the formation of teachers and professors of theology so that there is a clearer and more decisive orientation towards formation for a life of communion, mission, and participation. Formation for a more genuinely synodal spirituality is at the heart of the renewal of the Church.'" 

In other words, brainwash the shepherds and they will brainwash the flock. This is exactly what John Dewey did to education. 

Watching this video once more emphasized to me the prophetic role of Archbishop Lefebvre. He began the SSPX at the appeal of the seminarians, to form men in authentic Catholic philosophy, theology, and morality. You would be hard pressed to find better formed priests in the world today. Which is exactly why the SSPX must be destroyed. 

Pray for priests and for the true renewal of the Church. The crisis is real and serious. Pray and fast, begging God to preserve us in the faith of our fathers. Stay close to your guardian angel and patron saints and of course to Jesus, Mary, and Joseph. We 're in the storm but Christ is in the boat and the angels and saints are with us as crew.

"Pray, hope, and don't worry."