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Bishop Mutsaerts to Leo XIV: "Impossible to Consider the Synod a Success"
Auxiliary Bishop Rob Mutsaerts of 's-Hertogenbosch wrote on August 13 an open letter to Leo XIV. Main phrases.
- Does the synodal process actually help bring souls closer to Christ and to eternal salvation? […] What has all this actually yielded? Not: how many meetings were organized? Not: how many reports were written? Not: how many people participated? But: has faith become stronger? Has Christ been proclaimed more clearly?
- When one asks such questions, it is impossible to consider the Synod a success.
- What once began as a 2021–2024 synod threatens to become a permanent form of governance.
- The classical synod was a means. In contemporary synodal discourse, synodality threatens to become an end in itself.
- The Church is not a conversation but a received reality. For the Church does not begin with our dialogue. It begins with Christ.
- Christ did not set up a discussion group. He called apostles. He gave …More

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V.R.S.

Yep. How should we call a situation when one revolutionary is disappointed with another? A tragifarce?

JANET ZIMMER

Too bad cloning people isn't allowed. Oh well, perhaps after the next big Synodal Get-Together it will be.

CatMuse

It is very plain that he, like his predeccessor, is a destroyer.

yuca2111

While christians are killed this guys call a synod to discuss selling the Church to the world, THAT is what's going on, they don’t believe, not even a gram of faith, they prefer sin.

frawley

Perfectly stated!