+LEO'S 'NEW SYNODAL CHURCH' REPORT

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Orthodox, faithful, loyal Catholics hope to wake up soon from the "toxic nightmare" of the Synod on Synodality so pithily described (above) by George Cardinal Pell - who not long after he'd spoken out, 'died suddenly' as they say, a martyr to the cause of the Faith of our Fathers.

But o me miserum - as they say - the Synod fathered by Antipope Francis has been enthusiastically adopted by the successor to the Petrine primacy, +Leo XIV, who 'canonised' Bergoglio (so recently exposed, once again, as a deceiver nonpareil) at his Requiem.

"Pope Francis," says +Leo, "has given a new impetus to the Synod of Bishops, and the legacy he has left us seems to me to be above all this: that Synodality is a style, an attitude that helps us to be Church, promoting authentic experiences of participation and communion." +Leo has twice reaffirmed synodality as God’s will for the Church today.

So we may bate our breaths waiting for the report on the final phase of the Synod, postponed by Bergoglio's demise, because it's scheduled for today. Guidance and tools will be given for putting into practice what was drafted by people who talked about 'a new Synodal Church'. As Anthony Stine says, faithful Catholics don't want to belong to a new church. They don't need a 'new church' for the same faith. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cm2J-qZ6WiI

Ah, but the globalists want a new church and they wanted Francis to head it. Or his successor. The globalists must be thrilled: +Leo is so much better-dressed than Francis. And he sings Latin and makes the Sign of the Cross in Latin! Wow! A pope making the Sign of the Cross! That'll bring all the Novus Ordo sect into the new church, signed sealed and delivered. By Satan.

+Leo working on the Synodal Final Phase report - note the laywoman 

From Bishop Joseph Strickland, cancelled by Bergoglio as too Catholic, and quoted by Anthony Stine (link above): 

 

“God is a spirit: and they that adore him, must adore him in spirit and in truth” (John 4:24).

 

“For which of you, having a mind to build a tower, doth not first sit down, and reckon the charges that are necessary, whether he have wherewithal to finish it?” (Luke 14:28).

 

Two verses that, at first glance, seem to speak to very different things – one of adoration, the other of action. Yet both direct our gaze heavenward. One calls us to worship rightly. The other calls us to build wisely. But both call us to do so in spirit and in truth.

The first reminds us that worship must be genuine – devoid of performance, sentimentality or shallowness. It must be spiritual and grounded in truth. The second reminds us that any endeavor – be it a vocation, a family, a mission, or a life – must be approached with sober discernment, counted cost, and the willingness to complete what God has begun.

 

In both adoration and action, the tools of Heaven must be used. Not cleverness. Not manipulation. Not human ambition. In spirit and in truth.

 

To adore in spirit means to forsake appearances. To build in spirit means to renounce self-reliance. And in both, the measure of our worth is not in what others see, but in what we are before God.

 

St. Francis of Assisi said it well:

“What a man is before God, that he is and no more.”

 

We must not build with illusions or strive to appear holy, but be holy. For the man who builds on anything but truth is building on sand.

 

So what happens when we try to build the things of God without the Spirit of God? When we use religious words but lack spiritual fire? When prayer is no longer the foundation?

 

As St. John Vianney warned:

“Prayer is to our soul what rain is to the soil. Fertilize the soil ever so richly; it will remain barren unless fed by frequent rains.”

 

Prayer is not one task among many – it is the oxygen of every mission. Without it, the tower collapses. And once Heaven withdraws its blessing, no amount of effort can sustain the structure.

 

“If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit” (Galatians 5:25).

 

To walk in the Spirit means decisions arise from grace, not from panic or strategy. It means obedience, even when the world sees failure. It means fidelity, even when misunderstood. For to build according to the flesh when God has called us to the Spirit is to betray the very mission entrusted to us.

 

Bergoglio made +Hollerich a cardinal. +Leo retains him as a cardinal

Now let’s look more broadly. This is not only about individuals. This is about the life of the Church.

 

“… Not with an army, nor by might, but by my spirit, saith the Lord of hosts” (Zacharias 4:6).

 

 

Female priest, homosexual priest: posted on the Vatican Synod website

This is not just poetic – it is a divine blueprint. The Church cannot be purified with human means. Not with campaigns. Not with marketing. Not with administrative cleverness. Only by the Holy Ghost.

 

“ … For without me, you can do nothing” (John 15:5).

 

Not less. Not a little. Nothing.

 

And yet we see throughout the Church a growing reliance on human methods. Not because we are being persecuted – but because we are being seduced. The Spirit has been traded for strategies. And this has consequences:

  In the Synod on Synodality, we witnessed a shift from sacred discernment to worldly methodology – dialogue, consensus, and political process. Instead of listening to the Holy Spirit through Scripture, Tradition, and prayer, the Synod listened to “the people” – many of whom oppose the very teachings of the One True Faith.

 

· In Church marketing and rebranding, we see the human method again – PR firms, slogans, campaigns to “re-attract” Catholics. But the Church is not a product to be marketed. She is the Bride of Christ. Souls are won by truth, grace, and sacrificial witness – not by spin.

 

Synod advertising: ugly, demonic

· In liturgical entertainment, we have traded sacred worship for emotional performance – praise bands, gimmicks, irreverent novelties. The sense of the sacred is often lost. And especially the young are walking away, not because we are too solemn, but because there is a lack of reverence.

 

· In abuse reform, we see bureaucracy and optics replace penance and prayer. Politics and image management cannot heal what only accountability, repentance, and reparation can address. But these are rarely mentioned.

 

· In the suppression of the Traditional Latin Mass, we see fear driving decision-making. The TLM is rich soil – drawing vocations, families, and converts who seek the unchanging truths of God. Yet many leaders pave over that ground, rather than tending it. This is not spiritual discernment – it is human control.

 

· In the pastoral compromise seen in approaches like that of Fr. James Martin, we find a false mercy that offers comfort without conversion. But to affirm sin without calling to holiness is not love – it is spiritual abandonment.

 

“But if any man violate the temple of God, him shall God destroy. For the temple of God is holy, which you are” (I Corinthians 3:17).

 

This destruction comes when pride replaces prayer, and self-promotion substitutes for sacrifice.

 

And so I ask: if our hands are not pierced by the nails of renunciation, how will they bear the marks of Christ?

 

To my brother bishops and priests – We must lay down our metrics, our platforms, our comforts. The mission of Christ is not a campaign – it is a crucifixion.

 

St. Bernard of Clairvaux reminds us:

“What we love we shall grow to resemble.”

 

If we love Christ crucified, we will bear His wounds – not just speak His words.

 

And this is the heart of it: the spiritual tools given by God – prayer, penance, fasting, the sacraments – are not accessories. They are the engine. Without them, we do not build. We collapse.

 

The early Church had no buildings, no budgets, no platforms – and yet, they turned the world upside down. Why? Because they had fire. They had the Holy Ghost.

 

“And they were filled with the Holy Ghost, and they began to speak with divers tongues, according as the Holy Ghost gave them to speak” (Acts 2:4).

 

And the world, seeing them, feared.

 

So I leave you with this:

If God has called you to build something eternal – whether it be a vocation, a family, a mission – do not attempt it with human tools. You must fulfill it in spirit and in truth.

 

Count the cost.

 

Crucify the flesh.

 

Let the Spirit lead.

 

You may never be praised. You may never be understood. But if you finish the tower in the manner God has willed, you will hear the only words that matter:

 

“ … Well done, good and faithful servant” (Matthew 25:21).

 

Do not begin in the Spirit only to end in the flesh. Do not trade grace for gimmicks. Do not look back.

 

“No man, putting his hand to the plough and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God” (Luke 9:62).

 

Let us pray:

 

Lord Jesus Christ,

Grant us the grace to begin all things in Your Spirit,

To persevere in Your strength,

And to finish in Your truth.

Strip from us all that is flesh,

Clothe us in grace.

Give us endurance, humility, and love,

That whether seen or hidden, we may adore You

In spirit and in truth.

Amen.

May Almighty God bless you,

the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Ghost.

Amen.https://bishopjosephstrickland.substack.com/p/in-spirit-and-truth-building-what

 

And for readers with staying power, something from Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano:

Aperire terris cœlum,

apertum claudere.

Homily on the Feast of Saints Peter and Paul, Apostles

 

Beate Pastor Petre, clemens accipe

Voces precantum, criminumque vincula

Verbo resolve, cui potestas tradita,

Aperire terris cœlum, apertum claudere.

 

O Blessed Shepherd Peter,

mercifully receive the voices of thy supplicants

and loose the chains of sins with thy word,

to which is attributed the power to open heaven to the earth

and, if open, to close it.

 

Hymn. Decora lux, 3

Sancti Apostoli Petrus et Paulus, de quorum potestate et auctoritate confidimus, ipsi intercedant pro nobis ad Dominum. These are the words with which the solemn formula of the Apostolic Blessing begins: May the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul, in whose power and authority we trust, intercede for us with the Lord. The power and authority of the Roman Pontiff derive in fact from the two Patrons of the Holy Church, whom today’s hymn greets as 

Mundi Magister, atque cœli Janitor,

Romæ parentes, arbitrique Gentium, 

 

one the Master of the world, the other the Guardian of the celestial Gates, fathers of Rome and judges of the Gentiles. Their lives, consecrated to the preaching of the Gospel and the conversion of peoples to the One and Triune God, are intertwined even in death, in Martyrdom: Per ensis ille, hic per crucis victor necem, Saint Paul by the sword, Saint Peter by the cross. That Martyrdom – their heroic testimony of Faith usque ad effusionem sanguinis – still consecrates the land of the Urbe today:

 

O Roma felix, quæ duorum Principum

It is consecrata glorioso sanguine!

Horum cruore purpurata ceteras

Excellis orbis una pulchritudines.

 

O happy Rome, thou that hast been consecrated

by the glorious blood of these two Princes!

Purpled with their blood,

Thou alone surpass all the other wonders of the world.

 

Thou alone surpass the wonders of the world: because the glories of ancient Rome, its culture, its law, its arts, its territorial and administrative organization, its ability to unite and pacify peoples in the practice of virtues – even if not yet enlightened and vivified by Grace – were destined to find their fulfillment in adherence to the Catholic Faith, prepared by Providence also in the Martyrdom of these pillars of the Church, which in the Creed we profess as Una, Sancta, Catholica et Apostolica. Belonging to that Church makes each of us, as the Supreme Poet [Dante] sings, cive di quella Roma onde Cristo è romano [a citizen of that Rome where Christ is Roman] (Purgatorio XXXII, 102).

'Fiducia Supplicans' in action  

Hatred directed against Rome, the capital of Christianity as the seat of the Papacy, is the hallmark of heretics; a hatred that manifests itself in the systematic cancellation of everything that is Roman, starting with the sacred language, which is Latin. The Benedictine abbot Dom Prosper Guéranger writes:

 

Hatred of the Latin language is innate in the hearts of all the enemies of Rome: they see in it the bond of Catholics in the universe, the arsenal of orthodoxy against all the subtleties of the sectarian spirit, the most powerful weapon of the Papacy. The spirit of revolt, which induces them to entrust universal prayer to the idiom of each people, of each province, of each century, has moreover produced its fruits.

 

Dom Guéranger continues:

 

[Martin Luther] had to abolish en masse the cult and ceremonies, such as (here Guéranger quotes Luther) “idolatry of Rome; the Latin language, the divine office, the calendar, the breviary, all abominations of the great whore of Babylon. The Roman Pontiff weighs on reason with his dogmas, weighs on the senses with his ritual practices: it must therefore be proclaimed that his dogmas are nothing but blasphemy and error, and his liturgical observances only a means to establish more strongly a usurped and tyrannical dominion.”

self-explanatory

We should ask ourselves with what wretched thoughtlessness the Council Fathers – and today’s continuators of the so-called conciliar “reform” – allowed a handful of anti-Roman heretics to carry out within the Church, and with the force of the Church’s own authority, that attack on Romanitas that four centuries earlier was at the origin of the Lutheran schism.

(H)ow illusory is it to believe that article 36 of the conciliar Constitution Sacrosanctum Concilium – Linguæ latinæ usus in Ritibus latinis servetur – The use of the Latin language shall be preserved in the Latin rites – could have been sufficient to prevent the demolition of the Latin Liturgy – when it was obvious that the first and fundamental purpose of the reform was precisely that of abandoning the Roman language in favor of the vernacular idiom. 

We should also ask ourselves how one can consider free from bad faith the behavior of those who, constituted in positions of authority, still today seek to attack the Roman Papacy with synodality, a principle that is ontologically contrary to the divine constitution of the Church precisely because it is essentially anti-Roman.

The parenthesis between Benedict XVI and Leo – an interregnum of twelve very long years of devastation of the Church and deconstruction of the Papacy at the hands of a usurper – made explicit the anti-Roman nature of conciliar and synodal neo-modernism. 

But if we know the causes of the present crisis, we also know the remedies to get out of it: namely, to recognize Christ as King and Pontiff of all societies, to restore to Him the triple crown of the sacred monarchy of the Church and the scepter of civil power, because Our Lord is the holder of all Authority, and those who govern derive their legitimacy only in exercising power as His vicars and stewards.

The Supreme Pontificate, the sacred Monarchy of the Church, is and must be an expression of the Divine Order which Our Lord has established. And everything that opposes this order must be recognized as alien and alien to the Catholic Faith. 

Everything in the ecclesiastical sphere that aims to parliamentarize and democratize the Church, replacing the personal authority of the Pope and the Bishops with forms of representative government on the model of the constitution of post-revolutionary States, tampers with the divine constitution of the Church and deprives the Papacy of its foundation, which is precisely being intrinsically connected to the supreme authority of Christ the Pontiff and to the principatus of Saint Peter. 

And if the Successor of Peter, like the Prince of the Apostles before him, should ever depart from what semper, ubique et ab omnibus creditum est [has always been believed, everywhere and by everyone], the Holy Spirit does not fail even today to raise up new Saint Pauls who will correct him in faciem (Gal 2:11). 

The Apostle, as Saint Thomas Aquinas comments, opposed Peter in the way he exercised his authority and not by contesting the authority of the Prince of the Apostles. It is no coincidence that the Apostle calls him Cephas, as if to emphasize that in departing from the true Faith he ceases to be Peter.

 

The possibility of correcting ecclesiastical superiors offers the Supreme Pontiff and the Bishops an example of humility – Aquinas explains – so that they do not refuse to accept reprimands from their inferiors and subjects; and to subjects an example of zeal and freedom, so that they are not afraid to correct their prelates, especially when the fault has been public and has redounded causing danger for many. 

Unfortunately, in recent years we have seen how public corrections were considered by the one who occupied the Throne of Peter; what retaliation was suffered by those who denounced the doctrinal, moral, and disciplinary deviations of Jorge Mario Bergoglio; and what sanctions were imposed by the Roman Sanhedrin on those who questioned “the legitimacy of Pope Francis and the Second Vatican Council.” .On the other hand, the response of tyrants to critical voices has always been characterized by unjustified violence and a systematic abuse of power.

 

Today we ought to and want to hope that the multiplication of appeals from the ecclesial body for a return to Tradition will induce Leo to abandon Bergoglian “synodality” – an evolution of the conciliar “collegiality” of Lumen Gentium – and to exercise the Papacy without adulterating its authority with contaminations of an antichristic matrix that deny the Universal Lordship of Christ in the spiritual and temporal sphere. 

And Christ’s mandate to Peter – Pasce oves meas, pasce agnos meos (Jn 21:17) – must once again be exercised in the guarding of the Depositum Fidei and in the faithful transmission of immutable Catholic doctrine, without yielding to the spirit of the world that Peter, at the Council of Jerusalem, had already believed he could legitimize in the name of inclusion – as we would say today – of the Jews who wanted to maintain the rites of the Old Testament.

 

The Holy Roman Catholic Church was born in blood. In the most precious Blood of Our Lord, shed on Golgotha to redeem us from the tyranny of Satan and which is once again shed on our altars in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. She was born in the blood of the Martyrs, semen Christianorum, according to Tertullian’s expression. In the blood of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, patrons of the Universal Church. 

She will conclude her earthly pilgrimage, at the end of time, in the blood of all the new Martyrs who will defend the profession of the True Faith against the blasphemous heresies and apostasy of the Antichrist.

We ask the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul, and the Blessed Virgin their Queen, to intercede before the throne of the Divine Majesty, so that the Papacy, hitherto humiliated, may once again shine as a beacon of Truth for the people and a garrison of orthodoxy for the faithful. May the blood of the Princes of the Apostles, with which the blessed soil of the Eternal City is soaked, be the seed of new courageous and heroic Christians, ready to bear witness to Our Lord Jesus Christ in fidelity to the Holy Roman Church and to the Roman Pontificate. And so may it be.

 

 

+ Carlo Maria Viganò, Archbishop 

https://www.marcotosatti.com/2025/06/30/synodality-tampering-with-the-divine-constitution-of-the-church-christ-is-king-msgr-carlo-maria-vigano/

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