Synodalitas asynodica

Submitted by LocutusOP on Sun, 11/04/2018 - 22:57
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John Gerardi

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Sunday, November 4, 2018 - 22:45
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Synodalitas asynodica
John Gerardi said...

So the Pope...

- determines the subject matter the Synod will discuss;
- chooses many/most of the participants at the Synod either directly (my nominating them personally) or indirectly (because he nominates all the world's bishops);
- selects the principal drafters of the preparatory and concluding documents, as well as the Cardinal who runs the Synod as its secretary;
- can change the rules of the Synod whenever he wants (Remember the first synod on the Family when the participants failed to secure the necessary 2/3 majority vote to discuss Communion for the divorced and remarried, but the Pope included it in the next year's agenda anyway?);
- writes the Post-Synodal Exhortation, where he can say whatever he wants.

Isn't collegiality great!?

30 October, 2018
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It would seem that John Gerardi has indeed grasped the essense of Bergoglio synods.

The whole idea of regular synods is quite non-sensical and under Bergoglio, they have had as much appeal to me as an orgy at a leper colony. This time I didn't even bother to follow any of the announcements and I shall not waste my time perousing the synodal excrement either since it was very clear from the beginning that the outcome was pre-determined.

While Bergoglio did not get everything he wanted, or even much of what he wanted, there is enough ambiguity in the synod document for him to write an apostolic exhortation with whatever anti-Christian fluff he wants. It is fair to assume that if he bothers to have someone write it for him, it will be precisely a continuation of Amoris Laetitia full of incomprehensible Bergoglioisms none of which anybody can comprehend, which we shall then spend a great deal of time attempting to have clarified all the while as he sends very clear signals as to how he wants it interpreted, without actually responding to the objections.