Amazon Synod Working Document Released Today, and It Confirms There’s Trouble on the Horizon

You can see why the "group" has wanted this particular "type" for Pope for decades. He comes with his own psychological baggage and weakness, cowardliness, ignorance that can easily be used for their final purpose of bringing down the Seat of Peter. While the Jesuits outwardly speak of the devil they don't seem to know when he's in their midst.....they seem to think they are so special and elite that they are somehow immune from his tactics.....blind leading the blind.

But nothing really changes. Those pitied due to the lack of priests within certain regions of SA will still continue to be without the Mass when heretical types of "solutions" are attempted to solve the problems. So insidious are the tactics being used.

 

If the

If the LORD DOES NOT BUILD THE HOUSE IN VAIN DO THE BUILDERS LABOR....

 

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/c...e-prayer-and-fasting-crusade-for-amazon-synod
Cdl. Burke, Bishop Schneider announce prayer and fasting crusade for Amazon Synod
September 12, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) – Cardinal Raymond Burke and Bishop Athanasius Schneider are calling on Catholics to pray and fast to combat the “serious theological errors and heresies” they identify in the controversial working document for the impending Amazon Synod.

Burke and Schneider released an eight-page statement warning of six such heresies contained in the document, or Instrumentum Laboris, which is the source for discussion by the Synod of Bishops taking place in Rome October 6-27.

They encourage a 40-day crusade of prayer and fasting beginning on September 17 and ending on October 26, the day before the synod concludes.

“The theological errors and heresies, implicit and explicit in the Instrumentum Laboris of the imminent Special Assembly of the Synod of Bishops for the Pan-Amazon, are an alarming manifestation of the confusion, error and division which beset the Church in our day,” the two prelates say in the statement.

“It is our duty to make the faithful aware of some of the main errors that are being spread through the Instrumentum Laboris,” they stated, adding that the working document is “long and is marked by a language which is not clear in its meaning, especially in what regards the deposit of faith (depositum fidei).”

The prelates’ statement calling for the crusade of prayer and fasting is dated September 12, and covered in a report from Edward Pentin of the National Catholic Register.

Burke, patron of the Sovereign Order of Malta, and Schneider, auxiliary bishop of Astana, Kazakhstan, are both well-regarded among Catholics for their steady defense of the faith despite all but continual attacks directed at them for upholding it.

They encourage Catholic clergy and laity to “pray daily at least one decade of the Holy Rosary and to fast once a week” during the crusade. (I can do this!)

Pray to combat theological errors and heresies
They ask that the prayer and fasting be directed toward the intention “that the theological errors and heresies inserted in the Instrumentum Laboris may not be approved during the synodal assembly.”

Additionally, they ask “particularly” for prayer that Pope Francis, “in the exercise of the Petrine ministry, may confirm his brethren in the faith by an unambiguous rejection of the errors of the Instrumentum Laboris.”

The synod’s Instrumentum laboris was released in June and draws heavily from Francis’ encyclicals Evangelii Gaudium and Laudato si.’

Will the synod undermine Church teaching?
The Synod and its working document have been criticized over a number of issues, which Burke and Schneider lay out in their declaration, supporting their arguments with Church documents, the Catechism, and Scripture.

Titled Amazonia, New Paths for the Church and for an Integral Ecology, the document and synod, it is feared, will be used to undermine Church teaching in a number of areas and to advance radical ideas incompatible with Catholic doctrine.

There are also general concerns over some of the document’s authors and others overseeing or otherwise influencing the synod with regard to fidelity to Church teaching.

“Various prelates and lay commentators, as well as lay institutions, have warned that the authors of the Instrumentum Laboris…have inserted serious theological errors and heresies into the document,” state Burke and Schneider.

‘Heretical’ and an ‘apostasy’
Cardinal Walter Brandmüller, one of the two remaining dubia cardinals, issued a stiff critique of the Instrumentum Laboris in June, terming it “heretical” and an “apostasy” from Divine Revelation. Brandmüller called on Church leadership to “reject” it with “all decisiveness.”

‘False teaching’
In a statement this past July Cardinal Gerhard Müller, former Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF), denounced the Instrumentum Laboris as well for its “radical u-turn in the hermeneutics of Catholic theology” and for its “false teaching.”

Müller said that same month that the Amazon Synod is “a pretext for changing the Church.”

An ‘apostasy’
In an interview last month Burke had said the Instrumentum Laboris is an “apostasy.”
Asked if the document may become “something definitive or authoritative for the Church,” Burke responded, “It cannot be. The document is an apostasy. This cannot become the teaching of the Church, and God willing, the whole business will be stopped.”

Burke and Schneider also ask Catholic to pray for the intention that Pope Francis “may not consent to the abolition of priestly celibacy in the Latin Church by introducing the praxis of the ordination of married men, the so-called ‘viri probati’, to the Holy Priesthood.”

‘The Church has no authority whatsoever to confer priestly ordination on women’
The threat to priestly celibacy by way of the synod is of great concern to Catholics, along with an attempt to establish a female “diaconate,” regarded widely as a strategy to push for women “priests” – an impossibility given the Church has no authority to ordain women as Christ chose only men as his apostles.

In his 1994 encyclical Ordinatio Sacerdotalis, the late Pope Saint John Paul II affirmed Church teaching on the matter, stating, “I declare that the Church has no authority whatsoever to confer priestly ordination on women and that this judgment is to be definitively held by all the Church's faithful.”

The working document suggests discussion of a married priesthood with the priest shortage in the Amazon as rationale.

 

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The list of errors

Among the errors listed by Burke and Schneider is “implicit pantheism” which identifies God as one with the universe, or regards all gods on the same level.


“The Magisterium of the Church rejects such an implicit pantheism as incompatible with the Catholic Faith,” they state.


The second error identified is that “the pagan superstitions of the Amazon tribes are an expression of Divine Revelation deserving an attitude of dialogue and acceptance on the part of the Church.”


The third concerns the document’s advance of “Intercultural dialogue instead of evangelization.”


“The Instrumentum Laboris contains the erroneous theory that aboriginal people have already received divine revelation, and that the Catholic Church in the Amazon should undergo a ‘missionary and pastoral conversion,’” Burke and Schneider write, “instead of introducing doctrine and practice of universal truth and goodness.”


They further add, “the Instrumentum Laboris says also that the Church must enrich herself with the symbols and rites of the aboriginal people.”


“The Magisterium of the Church rejects the idea that missionary activity is merely intercultural enrichment,” they say.


And fourth, Burke and Schneider list, “An erroneous conception of sacramental ordination, postulating worship ministers of either sex to perform even shamanic rituals.”


Fifth, the prelates say that in keeping with “its implicit pantheistic views, the Instrumentum Laboris relativizes Christian anthropology, which recognizes the human person as made in the image of God and therefore the pinnacle of material creation (Gen 1:26-31), and instead considers the human a mere link in nature’s ecological chain, viewing socioeconomic development as an aggression to ‘Mother Earth.’”


And lastly they say the working document puts forth “a tribal collectivism that undermines personal uniqueness and freedom,” that is, along with the other errors, rejected by the Magisterium.


All Catholics must be informed and pray

Burke and Schneider write that no one is excused from “being informed about the gravity of the situation and from taking appropriate action for love of Christ and of His life with us in the Church,” and that “all the members of Christ’s Mystical Body, before such a threat to her integrity, must pray and fast for the eternal good of her members who risk being scandalized, that is led into confusion, error and division by this text for the Synod of Bishops.”


The prelates invoke the Blessed Mother’s intersession along with that of other Catholic missionary saints to protect Pope Francis and the bishops taking part in the Amazon Synod from “the danger of approving doctrinal errors and ambiguities, and of undermining the Apostolic rule of priestly celibacy.”​

 

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Edward Pentin

Cardinal Burke, Bishop Schneider Announce Crusade of Prayer and Fasting
Citing “serious theological errors and heresies” in the Amazon Synod’s working document, they call on the faithful to pray and fast for 40 days to prevent such errors being approved.

Cardinal Raymond Burke and Bishop Athanasius Schneider have issued an eight-page declaration warning against six “serious theological errors and heresies” they say are contained in the Amazonian Synod working document, and calling for prayer and fasting to prevent them being approved.

Cardinal Burke, patron of the Sovereign Order of Malta, and Bishop Schneider, auxiliary of Astana, Kazakhstan, have also published the appeal so Pope Francis may “confirm his brethren in the faith by an unambiguous rejection of the errors” in the working document.

They propose that clergy and laity “pray daily at least one decade of the Holy Rosary and to fast once a week” for such intentions over a 40 day period, from Sept. 17 to Oct. 26.

The working document, called an instrumentum laboris, is meant to guide discussions during the upcoming Oct. 6-27 synod of bishops whose theme is: Amazonia, New Paths for the Church and for an Integral Ecology.

But the text has received some trenchant criticism since it was published in June from "various prelates and lay commentators, as well as lay institutions." Most notably they include Cardinal Walter Brandmüller, president emeritus of the Pontifical Committee for Historical Sciences, and Cardinal Gerhard Müller. prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.

One particularly contentious area concerns the subject of priestly celibacy. In their declaration, Cardinal Burke and Bishop Schneider ask that the Pope not approve the “abolition” of priestly celibacy in the Latin Church through the ordination of married men of proven virtue, the so-called “viri probati”.

The working document proposes discussion of such a measure to help bring the Eucharist to faithful in remote Amazon areas that are without a priest. Critics are concerned about such an innovation, in particular that it could undermine mandatory priestly celibacy universally by being latterly applied to all areas suffering from a shortage of priestly vocations.

“Principal Errors”

The American cardinal and Kazakh bishop write that they believe it is “their duty to make the faithful aware” of six “principal” errors “being spread through the instrumentum laboris.”

The first they list is “implicit pantheism” — the identification of God with the universe and nature where God and the world are one — which they say is rejected by the Magisterium.

Secondly, they criticize the notion put forward in the working document that pagan superstitions are “sources of Divine Revelation and alternative pathways for salvation.” This implies Amazon tribes have pagan superstitions that are an “expression of divine Revelation,” deserving of “dialogue and acceptance” by the Church, they argue.

Citing Church documents, the two prelates state the Magisterium rejects such “relativization” of God’s revelation, and instead “affirms that there is one unique Savior, Jesus Christ, and the Church is His unique Mystical Body and Bride.”

Thirdly, they cite as erroneous the theory contained in the document that “aboriginal people have already received divine revelation, and that the Catholic Church in the Amazon should undergo a ‘missionary and pastoral conversion.’” The Magisterium rejects such a notion of missionary activity as “merely intercultural enrichment,” they argue, and that inculturation is primarily about “evangelization” that makes the Church a “more effective instrument of mission.”

Fourthly, they criticize the working document for its support of “tailoring Catholic ordained ministries to the ancestral customs of the aboriginal people, granting official ministries to women and ordaining married leaders of the community as second-class priests, deprived of part of their ministerial powers but able to perform shamanic rituals.”

“The Magisterium of the Church rejects such practices, and their implicit opinions,” the prelates state, and draw on a number of Church documents including Pope St. Paul VI encyclical Sacerdotalis Coelibatus and Pope St. John Paul II’s apostolic letter Ordiniatio Sacerdotalis, to underline their point.

Fifthly, they state that consistent with the document’s “implicit pantheistic views,” the instrumentum laboris “relativizes Christian anthropology” by considering man “a mere link in nature’s ecological chain” and “socioeconomic development as an aggression to ‘Mother Earth.’” The Magisterium rejects such beliefs that man does not possess “a unique dignity” above “material creation” and the “technological progress is bound up with sin,” they state.

Lastly, they warn against what the working document calls an integral “ecological conversion” which includes “the adoption of the collective social model” of aboriginal tribes, where “individual personality and freedom are undermined.” The Magisterium, the two signatories say, again “rejects such opinions” and they go on to quote from the Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church.

Manifestation of Confusion

In conclusion, Cardinal Burke and Bishop Schneider say these “implicit and explicit” errors are an “alarming manifestation of the confusion, error and division which beset the Church in our day.”

They add that “no one” can say they were not aware of the “gravity of the situation” and so excuse themselves from “taking appropriate action” for love of Christ and His Church.

Given such a threat, they call on “all members” of the Church to “pray and fast” for her members “who risk being scandalized, that is led into confusion, error and division” by the synod text.

They write that “every Catholic, as a true soldier of Christ” is called to “safeguard and promote the truths of the faith” lest the synod bishops “betray” the synod’s mission which is to assist the Pope in the “preservation and growth of faith and morals.”

And recalling that Blessed John Henry Newman will be canonized during the synod, they reference two of his writings in which he “warned against theological errors similar to the above-mentioned errors in the instrumentum laboris.”

They close by calling on the Blessed Virgin Mary and the intercession of missionary saints to the indigenous American people to protect the synod’s bishops and the Holy Father “from the danger of approving doctrinal errors and ambiguities, and of undermining the Apostolic rule of priestly celibacy.”

 

I found a video put out by Sensus Fidelium about the Amazon document. It's 25 minutes and very informative.





We need to really pray for our Church and the pope.

 

I'm fasting (bread and fluids) and praying today.

 

What a God incidence I was just watching this. !!

I had no idea things had gotten so bad! Well now I know.

It appears that the German Bishops are now in a State of open schism in that they are rejecting the authority of the Pope:

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/...rman-bishops-trying-to-reform-church-teaching

No surprises there, since they are all heretics. But then since the schism was always coming from the , 'Liberals', why did Pope Francis indicate that the danger came from , 'Conservatives' in the USA who have over and over and over again shown their loyalty to Rome??

Their was never the slightest danger of a , 'Right Wing' rebellion from the USA. It was always on the cards to come from the Hard, 'Left', Pope Francis's pampered favorites in Germany. Talk about biting the hand that feeds you.

Good riddance to the lot of them. The Church will be a holier, better place without them.

Anyway these German Heretical Schismatics remind me of the time they refused to shake hands with Pope Benedict:

 

Probably most of those German clergy would rather pray to Mecca.

 

Tanker, Thank you for posting this, it's awesome!!!

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This is day 2 of "Crusade of Prayer and Fasting". If you didn't start yesterday, please start today. Thank you everyone for keeping me focused.
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I was appalled to read the first comment yesterday on this article but very glad to see the following comment was posted today, "Please just pray & fast the Lord’s Holy Will in these circumstances. That should stop all disagreement. The Lord knows what is correct. We sometimes have it all wrong. May the Lord bless our prayers."

I can't believe that anyone would suggest that we don't pray and fast for the Truth to be upheld in the Church and for God's will to be done.

Please pray and fast.

May God bless us all.

 

No. I think they worship a completely different kind of God. Progressives are really regressive, taking us back to pagan times before Christianity civilised us. This is more their style:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurt_Stock_Exchange#/media/File:Bulle_und_Bär_Frankfurt_3.jpg

 

One can keep up to date here

PAN AMAZON SYNOD WATCH

https://panamazonsynodwatch.info/

 

Oh it's so depressing! We'll never hear anything good, only very,very bad things.
Sigh.

The whole thing is just like hearing about a Big Cancer or something. It reminds me of walking along the hospital Wards in the Middle of the night hearing people crying.

These are such very,very trying times.

The devil must be delighted. I am so happy my mother and father aren't alive to see this nonsense.

I know we should not let it upset us; that we should keep our peace. But if you love the Church as a Mother it can only be hard to see her Raped.

 

Sometimes we walk a very lonely path ---




It is a cross to live in these times.

 

We have no say in all this whatsoever. No vote. No voice. All we do is pray and watch.

It makes me want to cry. Such a huge, huge trial .

..and om top of this to be insulted on a constant ongoing basis, in the vilest terms by a Pope , our Spiritual Father, for standing by the Truths of the Faith, as being Rigid Nuts and odd balls doesn't help things along...

There is a big temptation to reach out and turn the whole thing off.

But I've prayed about this. We are part of a Family. We have to keep switched on. That is what love is. It keeps switched on. So if prayer is all that I can do , I'll pray.

But it makes me want to weep. It really, really does. The whole grim grisly thing is just an Abomination.

Oh. well! Sad times.

Prayer,

Prayer,

Prayer.

Stay with me.

Oh our Poor Church, they Crucify Christ once again in Rome!!

 

I posted this elsewhere but this seems to be relevant thread for this point:

This critique of the working document of the synod is worth watching all the way through. However the truly shocking part comes at about 7:25 when the commentator says that a move in the Brazilian parliament to outlaw infanticide among the indigenous population was opposed by the Catholic Bishops whose view was that maintenance of the culture of the indigenous people (of which infanticide is a part) is more important than the lives of the children who are killed!! This is the equivalent of the Jews of the OT deciding to preserve those peoples worshiping Baal and sacrificing infants to him.

 

Scream

 

Yesterday I fasted on bread and fluids.

Today I'm "fasting" by not interacting with social media (I have one reason for doing so daily, but will forego today).

Will fast via bread and fluids again soon.

 

I hope that your fasting is a grace for you DS7. It is hard to deny ourselves but worth the effort. I fast a few days a week, started out by fasting from meats on Friday and after taking part in fasting on Ember days during Lent thought that I would try to fast on a weekly basis. By God's great Grace he has given me the strength for it otherwise I would fail miserably because some days are really tough and all I think about is food. I think that through fasting I have received a better understanding of gratitude for the small daily things I take for granted each day. I say thank you a lot more to God I know that much.
Also, I became much more aware of my shortcomings when it comes to denying the flesh as well.

 

I almost accidentally ate a piece of fruit yesterday! Force of habit - you know; grab and peel. Caught myself in time!

Otherwise not so difficult.

That's a good idea - fasting from meat on Friday; I can rather easily abstain from meat at any given time.