#384 Spoiler Alert! The Synod on Synodality: A Trojan Horse?

Spoiler alert the Senate of Synodality is a Trojan horse and I want to just basically give you that article , kind of an audio version of that article . I'll put the link in and I'll also to the Catholic Exchange and I'll also put this out in a newsletter If you . If you're not on our newsletter , please sign up for it . It'll be in the show notes also .

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On the Senate , look at if you're not following the Senate of Synodality . I'm not a big fan as you , as you probably know if you've listened to me or read anything that I wrote on it but basically what it is is Pope Francis wants the , the , the church in the modern world , to embrace Synodality as a way forward in the modern world .

Nobody knows exactly what that is and really what it is . It's and this is the what I'll make clear in this article and in today's podcast it's really like SEL .

It's a hypodermic needle that injects any kind of theory or any kind of ideology you want , and really what happened is it's the Senate started out , it sent a questionnaire to dioceses all over the world and and the bishop was in each diocese was to gather people together and answer these different questions , and the questions are about for a synodal church on

communion , participation and mission , and it's it's so . I'm the head of the , the diocese and parish council , so you know I was part of this process . It almost right away . I saw right through this and I go , oh my gosh , this is just craziness . What a waste of time this is . Yeah , basically you're asking uncataclyzed people .

We're the most uncataclyzed people that know this is about as little as is your faith . I'm speaking , of course , in generalities . Most of you are probably listening to this .

I do not fall into this category that I'm speaking about , but uncataclyzed , uncataclyzed people most of them aren't going to church on a regular basis , don't believe in the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist , blah , blah , blah , blah .

Right , and so we see that the , the , the demise really of marriage and the family , the church and our whole American culture here in the United States , all coming , all unraveling kind of all at once .

What you would like to see and what we , what we need is clarity from the church to get us through these confusing times , this attack on marriage and the family again , and this attack on on marriage and the family within the culture , in this pornographic culture , etc . Etc . That you see all over , there's a lot of evil out there . We all sense this .

What you want is a clear voice of the church , and , and , with John Paul II and Pope Benedict , and , and , and look at all this positive faith , this beauty of the faith coming down to us . All you have to do is take that and , and then , and then you have to bring that into the culture . You have to bring that into marriages and families .

You have to bring that into the human heart , and what you do is you bring the gospel into the culture . What that does is it purifies the culture . It drains out the infection . What , what , what the church is doing today , what the Senate is doing , what Pope Francis is leading us into , is doing the opposite .

It's saying let the culture permeate the church , let the poison , and all the poison and the infection , the culture , come right into the church , and there are many people that want that to happen . Look at this an attack going on in the church . The reason I bring this up it's very important because , again , we bring people into the church .

We have family members in the church , we have people asking questions and , at the end of the day , you know they're looking for the truth , and we should all be looking for the truth . When I would talk to people about the church and when I came back into the church many , many years ago now , I was searching for the truth .

We wanna know what the truth is , and so that's the beauty of our faith is to clarify how we should live . It's the last standing pillar really of truth that there is out there , and I think what's happening now with the Senate is they really wanna take that down , that last pillar , and we'll see how effective it is .

But again , when you have questions or if you want clarity , just go back again to the catechism , go back to the positive faith that we already have and just forget about this noise that's coming out .

If you can , if you're searching for the truth , if you wanna know what's going on in the truth Now I would say , don't ignore that , because you'll see how twisted and distorted they're trying to make the church .

So this is gonna be a very important time for those of us who have studied the faith , who understand the faith , who have encountered Jesus Christ in their own lives , is to stand up for the truth and say hey , hey , hey , something is coming out of the Vatican now and out of the teaching now .

That's not true , that's not good , that's not beautiful , and I think that's really why we wanna pay attention to this . Don't worry about it . Jesus Christ is in control of the church , but we're going through some crazy time , so buckle up . I hope you enjoy the rest of today's episode .

Upbeat music plays in the background , with a sad , dramatic intro music playing in the background . Spoiler alert the Synod of Synodality is a Trojan horse . The story begins with a bang and within a few paragraphs its central plot is revealed . In an earthly paradise , it's marriage .

By chapter three , the reader is presented with the human trainwreck sin and death , the result of the fall from grace instigated by an evil power .

All of human history can be summed up as a battle between those who seek to normalize this fall and live life according to the desires of the flesh and those who want to be redeemed and saved and live by life in the Spirit , as it was in the beginning .

In the beginning that came all the way from Genesis , chapter one , and the epicenter of this battle is the attempt to destroy the crown of creation , the Amago day , the primordial sacrament which is marriage . We get this from Genesis , chapter one , verse 27 . So God created man in His image , in the divine image , he created them , male and female .

He created them . If you have followed my work or intended a presentation I've done on stolen childhood innocence , you know that SEL , or social-emotional learning , is a Trojan horse .

It's especially popular in our public school system , where it's used like a hypodermic injection to help them deliver an ideology and make it more palpable to children , be it critical race theory , critical gender theory or critical insert your ideology theory .

Sel is used to combat the cognitive dissonance that children or any of us experience when the toxic sewage we're being presented with does not match the law written on our hearts .

Inject an ideology through social-emotional learning , sel , and use words like empathy , fear and its compassion , or a phrase like reproductive rights , and keep giving that to people and over time , a human being might learn to numb the knot in their gut that initially made them feel uncomfortable , say with the murder of a child in the womb , or with the illogical

idea that one can change their sex without even being able to define the sex that they're changing into or out of . Well , sol my acronym that I think is appropriate SOL for help , right for the Synod of Synodality is the same Trojan horse as SEL , only by a different color .

This time it's the shepherds of the church using the same genre of emotional babble to ready the faithful for an injection of heresy into their trusting hearts .

Might they too learn to deaden the voice of God within them and accept the heresy of , say , a father James Martin , a favorite of Pope Francis , who's been allowed and even encouraged to advance the normalization of homosexuality and same sex marriage within the church , while opposing voices are censored or ignored .

As my good friend and author , kevin Wells , recently wrote . Among the pope's elections to be voting members of the Synod of Synodality , our cardinals , our cardinals Blaze Supich , cardinal Wilton Gregory , cardinal Robert McElroy , confirmed progressives with track records of steering diocese closer to their own ideologies .

Each of these cardinals has invited Father James Martin , another pope invited Synod voting member , into their terrain . Each has also allowed pride masses to be celebrated in their diocese . And these men are the voters of the same Synod .

The German cardinal Gerhard Mueller , the former prefect of the congregation of the doctrine of the faith , called a hostile takeover of the Church of Jesus Christ . That was an article and I'll put that in the show notes too , that Kevin wrote on Bishop Strickland .

Who is this beautiful Orthodox bishop out of Tyler , texas , and how he's laying down his life for his sheep and how he's being attacked by the same pope for what ? For pushing back against this ideology . It's really something . What's going on ? My brother , danny , was a beautiful child .

His good looks , thick head of dark brown hair , his intelligence and eager smile were trademarks of his , but his best feature was a huge trusting heart that was open to everyone , especially if they were a bit down , if they needed a friend .

He was excited to be an altar boy at our local Catholic parish , where he also attended school , and he would find , though , that some shepherds were not to be trusted . In fact , some were wolves in sheep's clothing . Danny was groomed there and robbed of his childhood innocence by our pastor , who sexually molested him over a number of years .

We would learn this as he was dying of HIV AIDS . Danny , like so many others I have since met who are involved in homosexual or other alternative sexual lifestyles , had been molested as children . There are now 60 million adults in America today that were sexually molested as children . It's that staggering number of the walking wounded .

Danny would find , then , later on a faithful priest who would lead him back into the church as he grew too weak to attend mass . This humble priest would come and bring the Eucharist to him at his home .

Walking out of his room one day , he turned to our mother , who was staying with Danny as he was dying , and the priest said to her there's a little saint in the making in that room . You know , we're all wounded in some way , we all carry our crosses and we all have free will . Though how will we live this life ? And we're all going to die .

When Danny was buried , two dates were written on the stone the day he was born and the day he died . Between those two dates is a dash . We all get one . How you live in that dash determines your legacy and where you will spend eternity . The final words of Danny's dash were to his brothers and friends gathered around his bedside when he said let's pray .

Let's pray to God . Before Danny took his last breath , I had had an encounter with the risen Jesus Christ right in that room . That would change the direction of my life forever . At the time of Danny's death , I was a professional chef who owned a number of restaurant concepts , and in those restaurants , I employed gay managers .

There were lesbians that worked for me , some atheists , some agnostics , some were black , white , asian , mexican , muslims , jews , christians . Certainly we were a family . We took care of one another .

When I came back into the Catholic Church after a 20-year absence , though , I felt an additional responsibility to them and the other people in my life to share the gospel of Jesus Christ , so I would often share with them Danny's story and that encounter that we shared . Let's pray . Pray to God .

Danny at that time was the only brother , the five brothers of us , that had come back into the Catholic Church , and so I'd invite my employees , my family , my friends , other people that I would meet . I'd invite them to seek their own encounter with Jesus Christ .

I learned from St John Paul II don't ever impose , you don't need to Just always propose the gospel , what's true , what's good and what's beautiful , the word huh , capital W , jesus Christ and the word of God Himself , with the clear understanding that we're all created free and we have the personal responsibility , but also the personal freedom , to accept Jesus Christ

or reject Him . See that you do not despise one of these little ones . Jesus said , for I tell you that in heaven , there , angels always behold the face of my Father , who is in heaven . What do you think Jesus went on ?

If a man has a hundred sheep and one of them has gone astray , does he not leave the 99 on the hills and go in search of the one that went astray ? And if he finds it , truly , I say to you he rejoices over it more than over the 99 that never went astray .

So it is not the will of my Father , who is in heaven , that one of these little ones should perish . That comes from the Gospel of Matthew , chapter 18 , verses 10 through 14 . There's a train wreck coming . In fact it's already here and it's going to get worse . Take a few minutes to reflect on a radical dysfunction going on in so many lives .

How many people have experienced the pain of divorce , children out of wedlock , pornography , addiction , sexual abuse , eating disorders , gender dysphoria , drug and alcohol abuse , domestic violence , abortion , anxiety , depression , thoughts of suicide , the increasing breakdown of our culture ? We've seen the crime on our streets . We see war .

We see the threat of nuclear war even once again on the horizon In the past , when the governments of the world became tyrants or when marriage and the family was under attack , as it is now , and as the tyrants of the world are unleashed upon all of us , at least we had the Church to remind us that we have an eternal destiny , that we were made for more .

That is no longer the case . What makes today's crisis worse is that the majority of our shepherds , our bishops and cardinals are either lukewarm , silent , or their ideologues themselves . Instead of proclaiming the gospel , the working document for the Synod of Synodality SOS , I call it is titled Enlarge the Space of your Tent .

It goes on to share painfully , page after page , a redundant chant of radical inclusiveness and spirit reminiscent of Woodstock in the 1960s . The vision of a church capable of radical inclusion , it states , shared belonging and deep hospitality according to the teachings of Jesus Christ , is at the heart of the Synodal process .

It goes on to say , instead of behaving like gatekeepers trying to exclude others from the table , we need to make sure that everyone can find a place and a home here . This is the language of SOS , where it no longer matters what you do in that dash called your life . Life has meaning now to the people that write SOS , as long as it feels right to you .

You are now the self-proclaimed arbiter of truth yourself , an often repeated theme of the document is to be a listening church , but most of the good priests I already spend most of their day doing just that listening , listening , listening . That's what they do , but then they have to have an answer , don't they ?

This SOS would seem like a colossal waste of time until you understand that its purpose is to set up the faithful , the real faithful , the true faithful , the sheep that are in the church looking for shepherds . They're setting them up for critical marriage theory , where we take marriage and we break it down just like the rest of the culture .

There is no meaning , there is no purpose anymore . Marriage this is no longer the Amago Day . Based on the Trinitarian love story . This theory , led by Father James Martin , looks-alikes Feeling uncomfortable , maybe when you hear this in the pit of your stomach . The SOS injection is here to help .

The document states those who , for various reasons , feel attention between belonging to the church and their own loving relationships , such as remarried divorces , single parents , people living in polygamous marriages , the LGBTQISS plus people , etc . Those in same-sex relationships who expect the church to accept them in their way of behaving .

My former restaurant employees would love this document . Enlarge the space of your tent . That would have got them all into the church singing kumbaya , believing they had a get out of jail free card and a pass right into heaven's gate , regardless of how they live . Jesus had a different message In the beginning . It was not so .

In the Gospel of Matthew , jesus said Enter by the narrow gate , for the gate is wide and the way is easy . That leads to destruction . And those that enter it are many , for the gate is narrow and the way hard . That leads to life , and those who find it are few .

He immediately follows up in the next verse Beware of false prophets who come to you in sheep's clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves . And how about our Peter , our first pope ? He said this , but false prophets also rose among the people , just as there will be false teachers among you who will secretly bring in destructive heresies .

That's from 2 Peter , chapter 2 , verse 1 . So buckle up , we're in for a rough ride .

Sister Lucía , the main visionary of Fatima , replied in a long letter to Cardinal Caffara , who had written her initially asking her for prayers , after John Paul II asked him to establish the Pontifical Institute for Marriage and the Family in Rome , and he had these attacks coming from within the church and outside the church .

So he wrote to sisters Lucía , not expecting a reply , just asking her for prayers . But she wrote a long letter back to him and in that letter she wrote the final battle between the Lord and the Kingdom of Satan will be about marriage and the family .

Don't be afraid , she added , because whoever works for the sanctity of marriage and the family will always be fought against and opposed in every way , because this is the decisive issue . Then she concluded nevertheless , our Lady has already crushed his head .

As an innocent lamb , jesus took on a body , a man born of a woman , and merited life for all of us by the free shedding of his own blood . In Jesus , god reconciled us to Himself and among ourselves , from bondage to the devil and sin . He delivered us so that each one of us can say with the apostle the Son of God loved me and gave Himself up for me .

By suffering for us , he not only provided us with an example for our own imitation , he blazed the trail , and if we follow that trail , the narrow gate , life and death are made holy and take on new meaning .

Jesus loves us to the end and goes out looking for His lost sheep , meeting us where we are at , but he loves us too much to leave us in our brokenness . The redemption and the new life that he offers us is collective . It's a free gift given to every human being , but salvation , eternal life , is individual . You have to say yes . I have to say yes .

So all the bishops and Pope Francis , with your Synod of Synodality . At the end of the day , we know what to do , we know what God has taught us , we know what this positive faith is when it comes down to us .

So you can try what you might , and I have a good idea that you will but at the end of the day , the faithful know and the faithful will follow Jesus , because we hear His voice and we know it . Hey , god bless you . If you want to read that text , I think it's important . I think it's important maybe to have .

I'll put a link into the show notes for the Catholic Exchange . Hey , god bless you . Don't forget to sign up for our newsletter . Talk to you soon . Everybody , have a great weekend . Bye-bye .