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Tag Archives: Synod
PARODY SONG ALERT: Synodal Rock!
From the blog’s Official Parodohymnodist… To the tune of Jingle Bell Rock! Bishops meet, some are sweet, synods are held, Some are included, some are repelled, Synodal synods, how synods are run, Now the synodal way’s begun. Synods on synods … Read More
Posted in Lighter fare, Parody Songs, You must be joking!
Tagged Parody Songs, Synod, synodality
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3 Comments
The next Synod (“walking together”) will be about the Synod. No! Really!
This is not from Eye of the Tiber or The Onion… From CNA: Pope Francis announces a 2022 synod on synodality Vatican City, Mar 7, 2020 / 05:00 am (CNA).- The next ordinary Synod of Bishops will be a synod … Read More
Olive branches between Francis and Card. Müller
At Corriere today there is an odd story that might interest you. Papa Francesco scrive al cardinale Müller: disgelo con i tradizionalisti Il Papa in una lettera di 7 righe: «Caro fratello, molte grazie per il tuo libro: il tuo … Read More
Thoughts about the Amazon Synod (“walking together”) document. Wherein Fr. Z opines also on something sad about #Bookgate
The Exhortation following the ghastly Amazon Synod (“walking together with a demonic idol”) is now out. No married priests and no deaconettes. More on the Exhortation below. First, however, something which you should know about. Sandro Magister doesn’t often put … Read More
Germans go to the zoo. Synod (“walking together”) and heresy. Wherein Fr. Z rants.
Weird German bishop (tautology?) of Osnabrück, Franz-Josef Bode, is for pretty everything that would tear the Church apart and remake her in the secularist image so hotly desired by the Left. At katolisch.de we find that Bode, emerging puffed up … Read More
Posted in Wherein Fr. Z Rants
Tagged Dorothea Sattler, Exodus 32, Franz-Josef Bode, Germany, Synod
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18 Comments
VIDEO – Meet the guy who boosted and “tiberized” Pachamama and “Pachamama meets the God of Surprises”
Corrispondenza Romana has a video introduced by Roberto de Mattei, in which the young Austrian man who tossed the wooden Pachamama demonic graven images into the Tiber. I saw the video at Rorate at first. Fr. Z kudos to Alexander … Read More
For your “You can’t make this up!” file. Italian Bishops publish “Pachamama Prayer” in booklet
On my way back to these USA, I got wind via The Great Roman the story on an Italian site that the Italian Bishops had published, before the Synod, a prayer involving Pachamama, the S. American demon those nitwits prayed … Read More
A ‘Humanae vitae’ moment for this pontificate? It’s time to pray for a miracle.
I have in the past written, when writing about miracles, that it we don’t pray for miracles, we won’t receive them. Praying does not compel God to grant them, but praying prepares us to accept all that God grants and … Read More
Posted in Francis, Mail from priests, Synod, The Coming Storm, The future and our choices
Tagged Amazon Synod, Humanae vitae, Synod
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22 Comments
ZUHLIO RETURNS: Pachamama’s Garden
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: (ROME) In a surprise move international recording star and global warming expert ZUHLIO has emerged from retirement at the request of a subgroup of the drafting committee of the initial third working group of the Synod (“walking … Read More
Posted in HONORED GUESTS, Liberals, Lighter fare, Parody Songs, Synod
Tagged Amazon Synod, Pachamama, Synod, Zuhlio
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8 Comments
#AmazonSynod through a lens from St John Henry Newman
Corruptio optimi pessima… the corruption of the best thing is the worst sort of corruption. The other day I heard Australian author Tracey Rowland give a great talk in Rome about Newman’s idea of a university in juxtaposition with what’s … Read More
Posted in Pò sì jiù, Synod, You must be joking!
Tagged Amazon Synod, inculturation, John Henry Newman, Synod
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10 Comments
Pagan Idols at the Amazon “walking together” Synod
More blah blah from the Holy See about the antics surrounding the Amazon (“walking together”) Synod… Amazoniana Synod… cha cha cha… We’ve seen the photos of the ubiquitous carving of the pregnant woman, which is pretty obviously some sort of … Read More
The true “pseudo-schismatic” Church in Germany
Team Francis and the New catholic Red Guards who march and sloganeer for them have been hurling, as anxious chimps do their poo, the word “schism” at Catholics who are worried that Catholic doctrine is being made obscure or even being … Read More
Posted in Francis, Liberals, Pò sì jiù, Synod, The Coming Storm, The Drill
Tagged Card. Marx, Germany, Hosea 8:7, Synod, Synod on Amazon
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12 Comments
Idea for the Pan-Amazonian #Synod2019
This, from the Twitter feed of Union Seminary in NYC (non-denominational at Columbia U). This is a GREAT idea for the upcoming Synod! They could bring in all sorts of trees and plants, maybe with some snakes and frogs still … Read More
Posted in Lighter fare, Synod
Tagged cosmovision, Synod, Synod of Bishops, Synod on Amazon
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43 Comments
Initiative of Prayer and Fasting from now through October 2019 (and the Synod)
A call has been issued by Card. Burke and Bp. Schneider to fast one day a week and, daily, to recite one decade of the Holy Rosary in the lead up to, the prosecution of, and the immediate aftermath of … Read More
Posted in GO TO CONFESSION, Synod, The Coming Storm, The future and our choices
Tagged fasting, prayer, Synod
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14 Comments
More fresh hell from beyond the ‘limes’: the Land of Karl Rahner and Walter Kasper and Really Bad Ideas
The ancient Roman historian Tacitus said that the Germans of his day had a strong tendency to folk assembly government, and that big decisions were decided by the whole tribe. The men of the whole tribe. Women could speak up and … Read More
Posted in Pò sì jiù, The Coming Storm, The future and our choices, You must be joking!
Tagged Germany, limes, Synod
19 Comments
19 Comments
Building recruits for the New catholic Red Guards!
From LifeSite. You can see what they are doing, even before the upcoming Synod is rigged. Let the rigging begin! EXCLUSIVE: Speakers at Vatican-run youth meeting call for women’s ordination, LGBT inclusion VATICAN CITY, July 19, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) – A … Read More
PARODY SONG ALERT: Amazoniana Synod
The other day, I posted about the upcoming Pan-Amazonian Synod at which the members will among other things discuss married priests as a solution to the shortage in that mission territory. I wrote that “I try try try to give … Read More
Posted in HONORED GUESTS, Lighter fare, Parody Songs, Synod
Tagged Parody Songs, Synod, Zuhlio
9 Comments
9 Comments
Concerning the upcoming Synod, Germans and Tapirs
I try try try to give these Synod (“walking together”) guys the benefit of the doubt, but does anyone sincerely believe that talking about married clergy is really about shortage of priests in a mission country? Really? I can’t say … Read More
