As discussed in a previous article, Francis and the Synod leaders have now built their different church, which they call the Synodal Church. The distinction between the Catholic Church and the Synodal Church is not merely one of semantics or perspective: the two churches are fundamentally different in almost all important respects.

The Synod’s 2021 Preparatory Document clearly set forth this objective of creating a new church:

“The meaning of the journey to which we are all called is above all that of discovering the face and form of a synodal Church, in which ‘everyone has something to learn. The faithful people, the college of bishops, the Bishop of Rome: all listening to each other, and all listening to the Holy Spirit, the ‘Spirit of truth’ (Jn 14:17), in order to know what He ‘says to the Churches’ (Rev 2:7).’”

The Synod participants had to go through a process of “discovering the face and form of a synodal Church.” From the inception of the Synod on Synodality they have told us that the Synod’s purpose is to form a new church, the Synodal Church. Thus, it seems that we have little excuse for imagining that the Synodal Church is the Catholic Church.

The Synod on Synodality is both the coming out party for the Synodal Church and a show trial for the Catholic Church. In the eyes of the world, every triumph of the Synodal Church represents a rebuke of the Catholic Church.

In the face of this stupendously evil reality, many shepherds apparently believe that the best potential outcome for the Synod on Synodality would involve the minimization of certain novelties under consideration, such as the ordination of women priests. As laudable as this instinct appears, it is worth considering a few ways in which it abets those who seek to inflict as much damage as possible on the Catholic Church through the Synod on Synodality.

Cooperation Signals the Acceptance of the Synodal Church. While it is true that the Synodal Church and the Catholic Church are fundamentally opposed to each other, the Synod’s leaders and supporters want as many Catholics as possible to believe that they are the same entity. From the perspective of Satan, this renders the greatest possible insult to God and leads as many souls as possible to hell. From the perspective of the globalists, this leads as many people as possible to believe that the Church has mutated into Protestantism united with the bishop of Rome.

The Synod on Synodality is both the coming out party for the Synodal Church and a show trial for the Catholic Church. In the eyes of the world, every triumph of the Synodal Church represents a rebuke of the Catholic Church. Accordingly, those faithful Catholics who participate in the Synod — whether directly at its meetings or through their informal interventions — should recognize that any endorsement of the Synodal Church operates as a condemnation of the Catholic Church.

Negotiation Implies Consent to the Process. Any acceptance of the Synodal Church would generally entail an accompanying suggestion that the aberrations of the Synod are appropriate for the Catholic Church. As such, if we need further reason to reject the Synod entirely, we can consider the implications of negotiating for the least offensive outcomes possible. For the sake of argument, we can imagine that conservative participants in the Synod were actually able to eliminate the headline-grabbing novelties threatened by the Synod, such as the ordination of women and a greater acceptance of LGBTQ+ ideology. On its face, many people would consider such an outcome to be a remarkable victory.

We now know that Francis and his Synod have defined the People of God to include all baptized people, so the top of the pyramid is comprised of a majority of people who openly reject the truths of the Catholic Church.

However, such a “victory” would leave intact the apparent legitimacy of the Synodal process of “listening” to non-Catholic ideas to determine how the Catholic Church should evolve. At that point, why would any reasonable Christian trust the Catholic Church’s claims to safeguarding the truths entrusted to it by Our Lord? From this vantage point, we can see that the Catholic Church’s enemies can inflict tremendous damage with their Synod even if the “conservative” participants were to overcome all substantive proposals for change.

Silence Contributes to the Mockery of the Catholic Church. The entire Synodal process has been a deliberate mockery of the Catholic Church. Even before Francis announced his Synod, the International Theological Commission’s study on Synodality in the Life and Mission of the Church described the way in which the Synodal Church constitutes an inversion of order:

“Taking up the ecclesiological perspective of Vatican II, Pope Francis sketches the image of a synodal Church as ‘an inverted pyramid’ which comprises the People of God and the College of Bishops, one of whose members, the Successor of Peter, has a specific ministry of unity. Here the summit is below the base.”

We now know that Francis and his Synod have defined the People of God to include all baptized people, so the top of the pyramid is comprised of a majority of people who openly reject the truths of the Catholic Church.

Moreover, as we can glean from the Instrumentum Laboris for the October 2023 session of the Synod, those who have drafted the Synod’s most important documents detest the Church and insist that it reform itself in penitence for its past sins:

“In many regions, the Churches are deeply affected by the crisis caused by various forms of abuse, including sexual abuse and the abuse of power, conscience and money. These are open wounds, the consequences of which have yet to be fully addressed. To the penitence it owes to victims and survivors for the suffering it has caused, the Church must add a growing and intensified commitment to conversion and reform in order to prevent similar situations from happening again in the future.” (Instrumentum Laboris, 4)”

Whether they like it or not, those who think they can go along with the Synod — and merely advocate for the least awful outcomes — contribute to this mockery of the Church.

To avoid these tremendous evils, those who seek to participate in the Synod need only follow the example of the countless Catholic saints who have fought, or even died, for the unadulterated Catholic Faith.

To avoid these tremendous evils, those who seek to participate in the Synod need only follow the example of the countless Catholic saints who have fought, or even died, for the unadulterated Catholic Faith. If, for example, they were to proclaim the following truths, they could edify souls who have suffered so much from those who cooperate with the Church’s enemies:

• Regardless of its eventual outcomes, the entire Synodal process has been an abomination that offends God and leads souls to hell.
• The immutable Catholic Faith has been given to the Church by God and cannot evolve through a process of “listening.”
• Moreover, the Synod’s insistence on grouping together all baptized people — as the “People of God” — is a grave scandal to those who know that they must adhere to the Catholic Church’s unadulterated teaching to save their souls.

In addition, now appears to be the time for faithful shepherds to call their flocks to prayer and penance in reparation for the Synod’s grave offenses against God. It is true, of course, that the laity could simply recall that such reparation would follow the example of all the saints, and the constant teaching of the Church, but we want (and many Catholics perhaps need) our faithful shepherds to lead.

We know that God has allowed this painful crisis for a reason and will draw good from it. The Synod is an instrument of torture and humiliation in this Passion of the Mystical Body of Christ. We may have to endure it for the time being, but heaven forbid we help Our Lord’s enemies wield it against Him and His Mystical Body. Immaculate Heart of Mary, pray for us!

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