A New “Synodal Church” Undermines the Catholic Church - by Bp. Athanasius Schneider

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This is a good read, and important for Catholics to know.  I'm including the heading, subject headings, and conclusion below for those who don't want to take the time to read the whole thing (not long anyway).

https://www.thecatholicthing.org/2023/06/29/a-new-synodal-church-undermines-the-catholic-church/

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Many questions have arisen about the current “synodal process,” and therefore in order to be of service to Christ’s flock, I would like to address some important points of the Instrumentum Laboris for the October 2023 Session of the Synod on Synodality. This Working Document or Instrumentum appears to undermine the Divine constitution and the Apostolic character of the life and mission of the Catholic Church, substituting for them an invented “synodal church,” inspired predominantly by Protestant, social and anthropocentric categories. Below are several principal areas of concern.

The Divine constitution of the Church is undermined.[...]

Divinely revealed moral law is undermined in three principal ways.[...]

The Life and Mission of the Church is undermined.[...]

Other grave harms are committed.[...]

Conclusion

The Instrumentum Laboris for the October 2023 Session of the Synod on Synodality essentially promotes, albeit in a more sophisticated manner, the same heterodox ideas put forward by the German Synodal Path.

It substitutes the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church with a fantasy “synodal church” that is worldly, bureaucratic, anthropocentric, neo-Pelagian, and hierarchically and doctrinally vague – all the while masking these features behind unctuous expressions such as “conversation in the spirit.”

But we do not believe in – nor would anyone give his life for – a “synodal church.” We believe in the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church founded by Our Lord Jesus Christ, and we hold fast to His unchanging divine truth, for which countless Catholic martyrs have shed their blood.