The Rome of Cognitive Dissonance and Doublethink

There's a psychological term that applies in spades to our age of confusion and chaos. It's called "cognitive dissonance" in the language of mental health and "doublethink" in the language of dystopian literature. Both terms mean the same thing: the act of trying to believe two contradictory things at the same time. 

Sadly, modernist Rome has become the icon of cognitive dissonance and doublethink. The Vatican pays lip service to the unchanging Catholic faith taught for two millennia, while, at the same time, undermining it with modernist claptrap. One bishop says contraception and abortion are wrong. Another says there are circumstances when they're not. Moral relativism takes center stage in the synodal church where sexual deviance is love. 

Let me ask this question. Can a man pretending to be a woman marry a woman pretending to be a man?  Can a transgender woman enter the convent? Can a biological male wearing a dress and veil found a congregation of nuns? Those are the kind of convoluted moral questions that now exist in the synodal church. What are the answers? Cardinal Raymond Burke approved a biological male in a nun's habit founding a congregation in 1997. The uproar caused him to suppress the order in 2003, but what kind of madness caused him to approve it in the first place. Think about it. If that was the decision from a so-called conservative cleric, what can we expect from the progressives? Look at the German synodal church for the insane answer.

The LGBTQ issue is on the front burner in the synodal church. To identify oneself as L, lesbian or G, gay, or T, trans, etc. is seriously disordered. No identity exists defined by sexual practices. We are male and female as God created us. That's it. No third "gender."

You can use an adjective to describe someone's behavior, but that is not his identity. If it were, no one could ever change. An alcoholic drinks too much and is dependent on his liquor fix as is a drug addict on his next hit or sex addicts on their next or***m, But in no way do those behaviors turn into an identity. 

Anyone with an addiction has the power, by the grace of God, to change. To identify people by their sins reduces their dignity as human beings created by God for a life with Him in heaven. Sinners have become saints through repentance. The one who is forgiven much often loves much more than the lamb that never strayed.

Scripturally, sodomy is described as a sin that cries to heaven for vengeance. Doctrinally it's described as disordered, a violation of the sixth commandment, and mortally sinful. And yet the German bishops want us all to believe that love is love. The past head of the German bishops conference, Bishop Georg Bätzing has no problem with either sodomy or adultery and favors women's ordination, all in conflict with the faith. The current head Heiner Wilmer, follows in his footsteps. These men work to change doctrine to put the Church on the synodal path to hell. And yet they remain in good standing in the Church. 

Those of us who can still use our reason recognize the cognitive dissonance and doublethink coming out of the Vatican, especially at the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith under Fernandez. His words and his actions contradict each other. We have no obligation to listen to Rome's newspeak when they tell us to bend the knee to error and coddle heresy. In fact, we have an obligation to oppose error and fight for the truth. 

Our duty is to love God, keep the faith, pray for the pope and magisterium, and soldier on in the battle. Our zeal to fight for the faith as taught for two millennia reflects the love we have for it as established by Jesus Christ. G.K. Chesterton said it well, "You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it." So put on the armor of God and take up the sword of the Spirit, the Word of God, and fight for the faith against the modernist relativism that threatens it.

Holy Spirit, shower us with your gifts to arm us for the battle!

St. Michael the Archangel, lead us under the standard of Christ!

St. Ignatius, pray for us.