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*Subtitles Automatically Generated* The only thing necessary for evil to triumph in the Church today is for good bishops to
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say nothing.
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One good bishop who has consistently refused to say nothing is His Excellency Bishop Marion
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Eleganti OSB, Bishop Emeritus of Chur Switzerland, Titular Bishop of Lamdia.
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The takeaway from this document, as I see it, is that we are offered herein more proof
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that God has not abandoned us.
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The Church is God's to save, and He will do so in His good time, and in the meantime,
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the remnant of Christianity is alive and well, and it includes a growing number of Princes
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of the Church, successors of Christ's Apostles, who, like Bishop Eleganti, refuse to be silent
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in the face of evil.
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Synodality as Code Word by Bishop Marion Eleganti
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For the sake of Christ's love, stop the overload of synodal documents.
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Stop the intermediate steps.
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Stop more guidelines for further synodality.
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Stop all these announcements of results and final documents that are not final, and extensions
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into further rounds of synodality, the proliferation of commissions, and in the end, a large gathering
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in canonical wasteland.
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The vast majority of God's people ignore your documents.
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In my experience, hardly any believers know about them at all, and even fewer bother to
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read them.
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So stop.
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Stop spinning in circles, in a process that has not awakened love for Jesus Christ in
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a single soul, but instead has mainly occupied the wild imagination of Reformed Catholics
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in countries such as Germany, where the faith is dying.
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So stop multiplying yourselves in working groups and commissions.
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The people of God are not interested.
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You live in a bubble and employ the wrong people.
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*Subtitles Automatically Generated* For too long, the bishops have already been sitting around at roundtables.
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So too, the invocation of the Holy Spirit comes far too easily to your lips.
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And the results of all this, nothing but fog, blessings that would be better left unsaid,
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leadership models that contradict canon law, new committees and councils, as if we have
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not had enough of those already these past 60 years.
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Instead of proclaiming synodality, proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ.
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Proclaim Christ to a Europe, for example, that has turned away from Christ.
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Proclaim Christ to a world that is apocalyptic and constantly at war.
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Talk about the way to Jesus Christ, rather than the synodal way.
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The way in which you speak of synodality, it is nothing new.
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Others have already spelled it out.
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The Anglicans, for example, resulting in endless division within their ranks.
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So stop.
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Stop keeping the church in a never-ending synodal frenzy.
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Because while you speak of mutual enrichment and synodality, the real problems in the church
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are not even being discussed.
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The mass apostasy of the baptized from essential tenets of the faith, such as the divinity
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of Jesus Christ and his bodily resurrection.
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The problem of liturgical formlessness and widespread abuses of the Novus Ordo.
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The problem of no priestly vocations in many countries.
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The problem of widespread heterodox preaching in catechesis and university theology.
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The electoral practices that contradict Catholic teaching and canon law.
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This list is not complete, but you get my meaning.
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I can no longer listen to your propaganda, and I suspect that I am not the only one.
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Before Pope Francis, the church was not governed in such an authoritarian and manipulative
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manner with this never-ending synodal attempt to achieve predetermined results.
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But Godot has not come.
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At least not yet.
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And by its very nature, it is futile to wait for Godot.
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What has come is the evolution of doctrine.
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What has come is scandal.
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What has come is a shifting sand dune, not the Rock of Peter.
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According to scripture, before the end of time, there will be a great falling away from
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the faith.
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False prophets will arise who will flatter the ears.
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People will seek teachings according to their own tastes.
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The truth will cost nothing because it will not be the truth.
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Homosexuality and diversity will be everywhere.
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The Antichrist will rise, and finally, martyrdom.
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We can read all about this in the New Testament.
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And so the only thing correct about your synodality is the traditional teaching of discernment
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of the spirit, the desire to listen to God.
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But there's nothing new about that.
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Here, O Israel, Shema Yisrael, and the rule of St. Benedict both began with the word here
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in our time-honored Catholic ideas.
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The traditional teaching of discernment of the spirit is not the invention of your synod
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on synodality.
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What is new, what is your invention, is the synodal illusion that this work of discernment
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can be carried out with 1.4 billion Catholics, many of whom hold utterly heterodox views
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with the process of listening being politicized, instrumentalized, manipulated, or steered
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in a particular direction and possibly derailed as has happened again in Germany.
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Fiducia Suplicans and Trunizionis Custodus are highly controversial documents, and yet
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they came about against all the rules of synodality and listening that you preach.
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They came from the top down.
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And by the way, where are the supporters of tradition, mostly young people and families
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in this vaunted synodal process?
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Where is their vote in this sui generis synodal process?
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So far, they have been left out.
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In some countries, France, England, United States, many young people want to be baptized.
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Young people interested in the faith study the catechism, and they want a reverently
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celebrated liturgy.
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They are asking for more mystery in the celebration of the Holy Mass.
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Tell me, who in your church of accompaniment is listening to them?
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In some European countries now, Christians will be a demographic minority to Muslims
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in just 25 years.
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Does anyone in the synodal church care about the rise of Islam and the decline of Christianity?
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Don't turn the church into a marketplace of ideas for heterodox initiatives and inventions.
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Do something for the renewal of the liturgy and catechesis in these anti-Christian times.
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More missionaries, fewer spin doctors.
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Synodality has become a hermeneutic for everything and anything, especially for whatever lacks
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and wayward Catholics want to see changed.
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The sacramentality of the ecclesiastical office of church leadership has been severely damaged
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by an egalitarian synodality that makes no distinction between the ordained and the non-ordained.
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This contradicts the teaching of the council and the teaching of 2,000 years of apostolic
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law in the mystical body of Christ.
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Don't fool yourselves.
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In our part of the world, Catholics are not satisfied with merely listening and speaking
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in the spirit.
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They want change, and they are demanding change.
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After the long and costly synodal process, they want results.
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They want to see deaconesses and female dicastery prefects.
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They want female chancellors of the ordinariate.
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They want the abolition of celibacy due to a shortage of priests.
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They demand equality of the ordained and non-ordained in ecclesiastical decision-making
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and committees.
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They want women in offices previously reserved for priests and bishops.
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Why is this happening?
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In secular organizations, hierarchical structures are not questioned and undermined like this.
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Decisions are made by management or CEOs, and those decisions must be followed and implemented.
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Not so in the Church of Accompaniment.
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Not so when it comes to the Synodal Church, where synodality has become a code word for
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the opposite, for a flat hierarchy, so-called power control, democratic church political
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processes, a functional understanding of office, replacing the good shepherd with collectives,
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and last but not least, non-priestly forms of worship.
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The shepherd follows the sheep.
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The teacher learns from the student.
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Actions determine what should be done.
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Morality by praxis.
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The majority determine the truth.
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The priest obeys the laity.
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The bishop sits on the sidelines.
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And the spirit hovers above it all.
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The question is, which spirit is it?
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For the sake of Christ's love, proclaim the gospel.
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Proclaim Christ to the world once again.
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Enough with synodality.
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Bishop Marion Eleganti, published July 15th, The Year of Our Lord, 2025.