November 2024
Synodal Sludge: The Devil's Brew
Two-tier justice, cancel-culture, "far-right", "climate-denier," "Islamophobe," "homophobe," "conspiracy theorist"... Every subversive tool employed to marginalise and demonise counter-narrative voices may be reduced to one famous maxim: "No enemies on the left."
Coined in the 1960s by Herbert Marcuse, the Frankfurt School academic who facilitated sexual revolution, the subversive trope defined the neo-Marxist culture war by which Marcuse and his atheistic Jewish colleagues sought, successfully, to isolate those opposed to the levelling of Christian principles and beliefs. The teachings of Christ had built a civilisation that Marcuse & Co. detested, being raised up by His Church which they saw as the wellspring of anti-semitism and the repressive patriarchal family. In order to remove these dogmatic stumbling blocks to "progress" they caricatured their workaday Christian opponents as "rigid" obscurantists unable and unwilling to "change"; i.e., refusing to adapt to "diversity" and "tolerance," the new pseudo-Commandments of untrammelled self-indulgence.
Thus, demonised for lacking all contemporary "relevance," the "right-wing" Christian bloc was first ridiculed as unworthy of a hearing in the public square, then gradually framed as a danger to the state, and finally presented to a pliable post-Christian society as an existential "far-right" threat to mankind's very survival.
And so today we find counter-narrative voices banished from the neo-Marxist echo chamber that constitutes "mainstream discourse" — literally "disappeared," for instance, by Google's dominant algorithms that dictate the blizzard of far-left search results on all major search-engines. Meanwhile, the persecution of 'dissidents' ramps up as the public square is duly crammed with liberal allies seeking to uproot the civilising foundations of the West, and cleansed of conservative "enemies" of that agenda.
Simultaneously, the neo-Modernist revolution in the Church, personified by Pope Francis, mirrors and mimics this Marcusian model. Just consider the way orthodox voices have been suppressed since the no enemies on the left-playbook first played out at the 2014 Synod on the Family. Token nods are given to Catholic contributions even as objectors to pre-prepared Modernist plans are bulldozed out of sight and hearing to ensure the synodal arena is cleansed of orthodoxy.
This modus operandi is rationalised by the stated papal need "to find a new balance" in order to defeat the "rigid", "insecure" and "defensive" enemies on the right, through weaponised synodal "discernment," "accompaniment," "orientations of the bishop," "dialogue with the priest," "the internal forum," and "a more fuller integration into the life of the Church."
The antithesis of Catholic precision, this relentless sludgy verbiage that oozes from FrancisChurch in general and its synods in particular, ever betrays the devilish intent: viz., to use therapeutic jargon as a major means to the Modernist end of "relevance," under the guise of realising the hyper-optimism of Vatican II's Gaudium et spes ("The Church in the Modern World").
The quest for relevance evokes the relativism that defines this suicidal pursuit of worldly convergence. It has finally seen the Gospel of God exchanged for the Gospel of Gomorrah; now openly preached by homo-activist prelates and clergy sponsored by Francis (—Coccopalmerio, Cupich, Wilton Gregory, Robert McElroy, James Martin, et. al.) and given pride of place (pun intended) at his synods. But just when we thought it couldn't get more relevant and relativistic than that, the current Synod on Synodality took it to the next level by inventing sins: to reinforce the relevance and cement the relativism at the liberal core of "the synodal work towards the beginning of a new way of being the Church."
This new beginning commenced not with Holy Mass but a "Penitential Celebration"; a litany of new bogus 'sins' against: peace; creation; indigenous peoples; migrants; abuse; women; the family; young people; poverty; and "doctrine used as stones to throw." The inane centrepiecewas the sinful "lack of listening, communion and participation of all" (epic duplicity given the orthodox cleansing) which sins were lumped together as ... wait for it ... the sin against synodality! — a coverall also incorporating sins against relevance, relativism, and Modernist convergence with the zeitgeist.
"Should we laugh or cry at such a masquerade?" asked a French journalist. It's certainly hard not to laugh out loud at the jamboree's theme: "For a synodal Church: communion, participation and mission." "Mission? But the Pope has just said that all religions lead to God!" cried Italian journalist Aldo Maria in despair. "If the sleep of reason engenders monsters," he added, "the sleep of faith engenders ridicule."
Well, if it seems good to God pile these public synodal humiliations upon us, so be it. But it doesn't mean He expects us to take them lying down, or fail to see the darkness beyond the hilarity. "Whatever Francis’s subjective intention may be," wrote Chris Ferrara after the 2014 horror show, "let us not shrink from recognising the 'door' he has opened for what it is: a portal into the pit of Hell." The descent of each synod to ever greater depths of doctrinal and moral subjectivity has confirmed the fact.
It can all be reduced to Benedict XVI's famous phrase that trumps all their sludgy verbiage: "The dictatorship of relativism." Next to Summorum pontificum, that single compelling expression tailored for our age of limited attention spans and soundbites, may well be Benedict's greatest legacy. Quoted widely to this day, the left in Church and State cannot shake it off. It continues to expose their fundamental powerplay: to subjectivise truth. And indeed Truth Himself, reduced to a great man with a point of view; one among all the rest. Ditto the Church that bears his name. Ecumenically, prelates like the current Archbishop of Westminster, who once assured the late Daphne McLeod that unity is more important than truth, embody the subjective end product of unrelenting relativism: a secular dictatorship now unleashed synodally by a Dictator Pope unleashed by Benedict himself! Irony hardly covers it.
Meantime, we need not dwell on the cringeworthy offerings of this risible synod. Like all the rest, its homo-driven Devil's brew of worldly compromise and convergence is still more satanic solvent to corrode every good, objective, wholesome, truthful, Godly thing in Church and State. Far better instead to look at the event from different angles: to include the failed post-conciliar yearning for relevance that it embodies; the Jungian roots of its therapeutic 'sins'; and the Catholic reality behind the talkfest.
As for Jorge's Marcusian hypocrisy in touting "dialogue, dialogue, dialogue" to his allies on the left while shutting out his orthodox enemies on the right — even his liberal hero Paul VI insisted that, for the Church, "orthodoxy is Her main concern."