By an enormous margin, regularly worshipping Catholics everywhere do not endorse the present synod findings. Neither is there much enthusiasm at senior Church levels. Continued meetings of this sort deepen divisions and a knowing few can exploit the muddle and good will. The ex-Anglicans among us are right to identify the deepening confusion, the attack on traditional morals and the insertion into the dialogue of neo-Marxist jargon about exclusion, alienation, identity, marginalisation, the voiceless, LGBTQ as well as the displacement of Christian notions of forgiveness, sin, sacrifice, healing, redemption. Why the silence on the afterlife of reward or punishment, on the four last things; death and judgement, heaven and hell?
- George Cardinal Pell, two weeks before his death.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-catholic-church-must-free-itself-from-this-toxic-nightmare/
To be a member of the Church means to place Christ at the center of all things. Every work of the Church – her teachings, sacraments, and governance – is ultimately intended for this purpose, to make her members better followers of Christ. To view the Church as having any other purpose (social justice, political advocacy, environmental activism, etc.) is to misunderstand and misrepresent her.
- Fr. Paul D. Scalia
It was originally the role of universities to train the young mind to manage the pursuit and recognition of truth, good arguments, the discovery of the artefacts of the imagination both in the Arts and the Sciences. But the new culture we have accepted without protest does the opposite. It smothers and distorts the truth; it replaces arguments with blackmail; it binds the imagination with dead hand of politically correct dogma. It bends science out of shape and makes it deny itself in order to comply with the thought police.
- Gavin Ashenden
When dealing with the devil (or his minions) Catholics need to oppose half-truths and ambiguities with clear, direct, and fully-true statements. In this situation, we need to state directly that Fr. James Martin is a heretic who should not be allowed to continue his public ministry as a priest. If we mitigate that truth in any way, trying to defend Martin or giving him the “benefit of the doubt,” we simply fall for the trap designed by the devil himself and practiced to perfection by Martin.
- Eric Sammons
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