The Vatican Synod & The Catholic Laity’s Temptation: A Hall Pass on Heresy

October 15, 2014 4

Mandeville, LA – Rod Dreher points to other bloggers painting the actions of the Vatican Synod and Pope Francis as the long range plan to achieve a liberal view of Church teaching on marriage and family but there is a fatal flaw in all the arguments choosing sides in this spectacle: Doctrine is based on Gospel fulfillment of Old Testament “Types”. As Augustine, Ambrose, Benedict and Aquinas consistently point out, NOTHING in Christ’s ministry happened ad hoc.Nothing in Christ’s Conception and the creation of the Holy Family happened ad hoc.

These events make the foundation of the Doctrine and the liturgy that explains it from the pulpit, confessional and missions. You CAN’T go and change that, you can’t “re-translate” it so it comports with our modern perversions either. It is what it is, to follow it is to pursue Sanctifying Grace, to invent ways to alter or ignore it is not, end of story. I hope the FSSP or Christ the King Order of priests take this up this Sunday and next because there is a horrific amount of misinformation being shoveled by those boasting of their “orthodoxy”.

After 50 years of regrettably lame catechism from Churches that bolted all too eagerly to the Novus Ordo Mass and its irreverence to Our Lord and the same Doctrines referred to above, the laity are practicing heresy while the Priesthood encourages it, never daring to upset the fish-fry and car-wash enthusiasm that make up today’s “charity”. When was the last time we were challenged to perform regular acts of mortification? What’s that? Irreverence at bat and heresy on deck, that’s what.

TheKingDude

Host of the Mike Church Show on The Veritas Radio Network's CRUSADE Channel & Founder of the Veritas Radio Network. Formerly, of Sirius/XM's Patriot channel 125. The show began in March of 2003 exclusively on Sirius and remains "the longest running radio talk show in satellite radio history".

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JM22

9 years ago

I think there has been a real lack of education and catechesis by the Church in recent times. When you get people like Pelosi, Reed, and Melinda Gates saying they’re “Catholics” I want to scream. No Catholic should be (or can be, if they’re following Doctrine) pro-choice. If you’re pro-choice, you’re not Catholic, ipso facto. However, the reasoning behind why the Catholic Church is pro-life and anti-contraception has not been clearly enumerated and explained to the laity.

Of course, the pro-abortion press does nothing to assist in getting out the true message. Thus you get things like “Catholics hate homosexuals” and “Catholics hate abortionists”. Well that’s just not true. We do not hate *people*. We abhor the things that people *do*. The *real* teaching on sex & homosexuality is that sex outside of wedlock is sinful. This goes for heterosexuals & homosexuals. Those who suffer with same-sex attractions are asked to remain celibate and offer their sufferings up to God. If they act upon their attraction, then they should go to confession. Similarly, single heterosexuals should remain celibate, and if they fornicate, they should go to confession.

That being said, there is no denying that same sex unions have taken place (regardless of the Church’s view on the validity of those unions- which is that they’re not valid). So, how are parishes supposed to treat the offspring of said unions? How do you address these situations in a 2nd grade class when you say that Sally and Jane’s union isn’t valid because they’re lesbians? THESE questions are the ones that the bishops and cardinals were struggling with during the Synod. How do you embrace the person, while at the same time emphasising that their lifestyle is sinful?

The Catholic Church wants to be welcoming- IS welcoming- but you can’t expect to come to it and demand that it change almost 2000 years of teachings to suit you. It’s s a very challenging time… and I think we need to wait & see what happens after next year’s Synod. And in the meantime, continue to preach the truth. Refer people to the Vatican’s website or the website for the Catechism. It’s all there, and has been for a long, long time.

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Reply to JM22

9 years ago

Jeannie,
Thanks for you post. We can read St Pius X & Pope Leo XIII on these matters for clarity and the inspiration of Grace. To your query, the same question applies to the bastard children of couples “living in sin”. Thanks to Adam, Original Sin is hereditary regardless of the parents state of Grace so the Church must deal with the CHILDREN of those couples the same as it deals with the parents of others. If that means the children grow to be averse to endorsing the parent’s sinful lifestyles, so be it. This can happen in the heterosexual world too, so why obsess over the parental sexual state other than as an excuse to alter ALL the Catechism on the family? THAT should be called what it is: anathema or if promoted by the clergy, heresy.

DarSmith

9 years ago

Had to look up mortification. Oh My!!! Guess we still need to read a bit on that one 🙂 🙂 🙂 ty

So, does this have to do with how, or why, or something to do with the Catholic Church accepting that which the Bible forbids? There was a reference to how Mass has changed. I remember when Saturday night Folk Mass began – and the opinion of the Mom of the family that we spent our time with…

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Reply to DarSmith

9 years ago

Mortification: spend the last 30 seconds of an 8 minute shower without hot water. Take no cream or sugar with 1 of 3 cups of coffee. Take no dressings on every other salad. The point is to gain the habit of eschewing the material world’s charms and luxuries in favor of what is needed.