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Tradcast Express, it's Monday, October 7th, 2019.
Well, ladies and gentlemen, the long-awaited Pan-Amazon Synod has finally begun in the Vatican.
For the next three weeks, a select group of Novus Ordo cardinals, bishops, priests, and laity,
together with indigenous of Amazonia, will be talking, discerning, and reflecting about anything other than Catholicism.
During his sermon for the opening Novus Ordo worship service yesterday,
Francis got his sheeple on track for accepting a deluge of novelty in the next three weeks.
He said, quote,
If everything continues as it was, if we spend our days content that this is the way things have always been done,
then the gift vanishes, smothered by the ashes of fear and concern for defending the status quo.
Unquote.
Later on, he recommended prudence, stating, quote,
Prudence is not indecision. It is not a defensive attitude.
It is the virtue of the pastor who, in order to serve with wisdom, is able to discern, to be receptive to the newness of the Spirit.
Rekindling our gift in the fire of the Spirit.
The opposite of letting things take their course without doing anything.
Fidelity to the newness of the Spirit is a grace that we must ask for in prayer.
May the Spirit who makes all things new give us his own daring prudence.
May he inspire our synod to renew the paths of the church in Amazonia so that the fire of mission will continue to burn.
Unquote.
So, here we see,
Load up the minds of the hearers with all kinds of ambiguous metaphors.
Open them up to being receptive of all kinds of outrageous new junk, claiming it is the work, the newness, of the Holy Ghost.
That's worked well for them in the past, and it's probably going to work this time as well.
Now, it'll probably come as a shock to most listeners, but Francis did not quote
Pope St. Pius X, to whom he is supposed to say,
So devoted on the issue of newness.
Maybe that's because in his 1907 encyclical, Pachendi, Pius X wrote,
Unquote.
So, no god of surprises for St. Pius X.
Good thing we've got the Frankster now, huh?
At today's opening of the synod's first blather session, Francis gave an off-the-cuff address,
and basically made the Synod into a new source of divine revelation.
He said, quote,
A Synod is to walk together under the inspiration and guidance of the Holy Spirit.
The Holy Spirit is the Synod's principal actor.
Please, let us not chase him out of the hall.
Consultations were held.
They were discussed in the Episcopal conferences and the pre-Synodal Council.
An instrumentum laboris was elaborated that, as you know, is a martyr text.
Destined to be destroyed.
Because it is the starting point for what the Spirit is going to do in us.
And now we walk under the guidance of the Holy Spirit.
Now we have to let the Holy Spirit express himself in this assembly.
To express himself among us.
To express himself with us, through us.
And to express himself despite us.
Despite our resistances.
That it's normal for them to exist.
Because the life of a Christian is like this.
Unquote.
Now, I don't know about you, but somehow I have the feeling that that spirit
that's been declared the protagonist of this assembly
is probably not going to tell them
that what needs to be done is return to the Catholicism of 1958 and before,
dismantle Vatican II, bring back the traditional Latin Mass,
suppress the Novus Ordo service,
go back to the Stations of the Cross,
and get rid of all the enculturation junk they're into.
Want to bet?
I guarantee it.
That is not what their spirit is going to tell them.
And of course there you can see that all this talk about discernment and listening and whatnot
is all just rhetoric to make people docile to accepting all the stuff
that's long been planned in advance.
Now they may not be able to get away with everything they've planned.
And so they'll probably gauge what kind of resistance,
they're encountering and then decide how far they can push the envelope.
That's what it seems like happened at the Synods on the Family in 2014 and 15.
They got more resistance than they expected and so they had to scale things back a bit.
And then at the end Francis presented himself as the great guarantor of Orthodoxy
that is keeping all these crazy liberals in check.
But of course we know how that story ultimately ended.
Right?
Two words.
Amoris Laetitia.
Yeah and so I think that a similar thing is going to happen here.
By October 27th they'll produce a long boring final document.
And no matter how bad it is the excuse will be,
hey don't worry this is not a magisterial document,
which is true,
this is just a recommendation that the bishops are giving Francis.
And then basically,
based on that final document Francis will write his post-synodal exhortation
and that will then be magisterial.
And I have a feeling that this next one is going to make Amoris Laetitia look like sacred scripture by comparison.
Maybe the title will be
Idulo Latriae Gaudium
or something like that.
We'll see.
During his speech today Francis also noted
that he was saddened to hear that someone had complained about
how at yesterday's worship service,
at St. Peter's,
the gifts were brought up by indigenous Amazonians,
one of whom was wearing a feather headdress.
And Francis said,
quote,
What difference does it make if he wears feathers or a beretta?
Unquote.
Yeah.
Well as long as it's not a Saturno hat,
right?
As someone on Twitter pointed out.
Folks,
the next three weeks are going to be fun.
I hope you have enough popcorn in the pantry because,
if this is how it starts,
I can't imagine how it will end.
The official general relator of the Senate is the Brazilian Cardinal,
Claudio Hummes,
who went straight for the jugular today in his opening address.
Armed with enough metaphors to last for the rest of the month,
Hummes said,
quote,
The church cannot remain inactive within her own closed circle,
focused on herself,
surrounded by protective walls,
and even less can she look nostalgically to the past.
The church needs to throw open her doors,
knock down the walls surrounding her and build bridges,
going out into the world and setting out on the path of history.
In these times of momentous changes,
the church must always walk next to everyone,
and especially those living on the margins of humankind.
An outgoing church.
Why outgoing?
So as to turn on the lights and warm the hearts of those who help people,
communities,
countries,
and all humankind to discover the meaning of life and of history.
These lights are above all the announcement of the person of Jesus Christ,
dead and risen,
and of his kingdom,
as is the practice of mercy,
as well as charity and solidarity above all towards the poor,
those who suffer,
the forgotten and the marginalized in today's world such as migrants and indigenous peoples."
And then he began to lecture everyone on tradition.
It is moving forward that makes the church loyal to its true tradition.
Traditionalism, which remains linked to the past, is one thing,
but true tradition, which is the church's living history,
is something else, though,
which every generation,
excepting what has been handed down by previous generations,
such as understanding and experiencing faith in Jesus Christ,
enriches this tradition in current times
with their own experience and understanding of faith in Jesus Christ."
Yeah, actually, that's not how it is.
It's actually the other way around.
Tradition is supposed to enrich people,
people's experience in the current time,
and not people's experience of the current time-enriched tradition.
But see, the fundamental error in all of this
is one of the bedrocks of modernist theology,
and that is the idea that the lived experience of human beings
is a source of divine revelation.
That is at the root of it all,
and it is modernist.
The modernist starts with man
and draws a conclusion about God.
The Catholic, by contrast, starts with God
and draws a conclusion about man.
Pope Pius XII once gave a great example
of how the new theology
that was beginning to emerge in his day
was turning the Catholic theological method on its head.
The neo-modernists were trying to argue,
if I remember correctly,
that God does not require celibacy
of those who have been abandoned
by their spouses because
celibacy is impossible for most,
and God does not require the impossible.
That was their argument.
Well, Pius XII refuted that by pointing out
that it was actually the other way around.
God does not require the impossible.
That is true.
But God does require celibacy of such people,
and therefore, such celibacy is possible.
See, divine revelation comes from the top down.
It doesn't go from the bottom up.
You don't begin a listening process
to ask people how they feel about celibacy,
for example,
and then conclude that it's not God's will.
You consult sacred scripture and sacred tradition
to see what God requires
and then teach that to the people.
So what these modernists are doing here
is they're preaching a bottoms-up theology.
It's church from below, as it's been called,
and they couldn't be more certain
and more right.
It is from below,
from very far below,
if you know what I mean.
Whomis also appealed to this idea
of Christ bringing eternal newness,
and there, too, you can see
how they're distorting the truth.
Yes, Christ makes all things new.
See 2 Corinthians 5.17, for instance.
But what does that mean?
Well, I can tell you what it doesn't mean.
It doesn't mean that you can cook up
all kinds of revolutionary concepts
and practices
and then say it's God's will
because God is always new.
Well, quite simply,
God making all things new
is a reference to regeneration
in sanctifying grace.
The old sinful man is dead,
and the new man, redeemed and regenerated,
lives in grace
through faith, hope, and charity.
We are no longer under the curse
of original sin.
The new Adam has freed us from it.
But what these modernists
in the Vatican have been doing
is preach a new gospel,
one that leaves behind the
quote-unquote old gospel of Jesus Christ
and instead introduces all kinds
of anti-Christian aberrations
under the perfidious guise
of the newness of Christ.
St. Paul wrote to St. Timothy
warning him of precisely such innovation.
Quote,
For there shall be a time
when they will not endure sound doctrine,
but according to their own desires
they will heap to themselves
teachers having itching ears,
and will indeed turn away
their hearing from the truth,
but will be turned unto fables.
Unquote.
And that's 2 Timothy 4, verses 3 and 4.
And of course we know what St. Paul
said to the Galatians.
Quote,
If anyone preach to you a gospel
besides that which you have received,
let him be anathema.
Galatians 1, verse 9.
So when Humus says,
quote,
Throughout the history of salvation,
whenever God reveals himself,
he brings newness.
Unquote.
Yes, that is true,
but the point is that God
no longer reveals himself
in our day
and definitely not in your
damnable Amazon Senate,
you apostate.
Public revelation ended with the death
of the last apostle.
To deny that is heresy.
See Denzinger 20, 21,
where the denial is condemned
in St. Pius X's syllabus
of modernist errors.
What these people want is
a new revelation,
a post-Christian, post-Catholic revelation.
If that's not evidence of a new religion,
I don't know what is.
And you know, we did already see
a little bit of that Amazonian newness
this past Friday in the Vatican gardens.
In case you didn't hear about it,
there is video available of the whole thing
where Francis is presiding over
some kind of syncretistic ceremony
in which indigenous Amazonians
start dancing around a bunch of idols
set up on the ground,
and they shake their rattles,
and who knows what they're singing,
and then they prostrate themselves
on the ground all in a circle
with this wooden idol
that depicts a nude pregnant woman
on her knees.
It is an absolutely surreal
and frightful scene.
And Francis, of course, just stoically
sits there and watches
and then later blesses all the stuff
they bring to him.
If you haven't seen it,
you definitely need to.
Go to our blog at
novusortowatch.org
slash wire
and click on the post for October 4th
entitled,
Golden Calf 2.0
Earth Goddess Worship in Vatican Gardens
Ushers in Amazon Synod.
Well, you know,
all this can really be reconciled
fairly easily with Vatican II theology.
All you need to do
is take the principles from the Council
and apply them to this Amazon stuff.
For example, you could simply say
that the true God subsists
in the Holy Trinity,
but is nevertheless also
present, although imperfectly
and not fully,
in other deities.
So there, that's doctrinal development
in the Novus Ordo Church.
All that would have to happen
is for Francis to say it in some speech
that'll give him the footnote he needs
to insert it into his catechism.
Right?
And don't say,
oh, this could never happen.
We've seen a lot of those things
that could never happen
take place in the last six years.
And how is it possible
for them to happen?
Because he is not
actually the Pope.
We've got a very helpful blog post up
that will be continually updated
throughout the next three weeks
while the Synod is in session.
It is loaded with links
to all sorts of resources,
news reports,
commentary, videos,
official documents, transcripts,
and so forth about the Amazon Synod.
So you can stay up to date
on what is going on
without having to get your hands dirty
by sifting through all the
modernist sewage yourself.
So you can make that
your one-stop resource
for all things Amazon Synod.
It'll be a long three weeks.
I can guarantee you that.
So now that the Amazon Synod
is officially in session,
I will leave you with four words.
Welcome to the jungle.
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