Just because the existence of God is not self-evident, in the sense of being immediately and intuitively known by human beings, does that mean His existence isn't provable at all?
In 1982, Pope Benedict XVI (then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger) called some of the documents of the Second Vatican Council a 'counter-syllabus' to Pope Pius IX's and Pope St. Pius X's syllabi and encyclicals against the heresy of Modernism. How should we Catholics interpret such a statement?
We will see in this analysis that 'synodality' is all but indistinguishable from Modernism, that 'synthesis of all heresies,' which was identified and condemned by Pope St. Pius X in his Encyclical Letter Pascendi Dominici Gregis.
'I beg of you, Holy Father, in the name of Jesus Christ, you as Pope, do not distribute Holy Communion on the hand anymore,' Bishop Athanasius Schneider recalls telling Pope Benedict XVI in a soon-to-be released interview.
The 'synodal form' of theology no longer looks to the infallible magisterium of the Catholic Church as its source and authoritative guide but rather to 'the ability to listen, dialogue, discern and integrate the multiplicity and variety of instances and inputs.'
'The apostolic succession of the bishops, that is, its 'hierarchical constitution,' is a constitutive element of the being and mission of the visible Church and guarantees her necessary historical identity with the Church of the Apostles.'
An anonymous priest of the Society of St. Pius X told LifeSite that Cardinal Christophe Pierre’s remarks exhibit an off-the-charts levels of cognitive dissonance as modern seminaries are floundering compared to their traditional counterparts.
From all that has happened in the Catholic Church in recent decades, I find myself approaching the conclusion that the Church into which I was baptized 85 years ago is about to self-destruct under Pope Francis’s ill-begotten Synod on Synodality.