Cardinal Burke Warns Against Synod

We live in interesting times. I wish we didn’t. But we do.

I haven’t covered the Synod on Synodality too much mainly because I like to keep things light here. I’ve found that focusing on church politics is one of the most sure ways to achieve a deep personal unhappiness. But this is obviously more than that. We live in a dangerous time for the Church.

Pope Francis seems to be saying that individual priests can decide if they want to bless same sex unions. This goes against Church teaching. This goes against Jesus’ teaching in the Bible about marriage.

Some Pharisees approached him, and tested him,* saying, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any cause whatever?”
He said in reply, “Have you not read that from the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female’
and said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’?
So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore, what God has joined together, no human being must separate.”

LifeSiteNews.com: In the eve of the Synod on Synodality, Cardinal Raymond Burke noted the Synod is built on arguments that “depart strikingly and gravely” from the Catholic faith, and he also responded to criticisms of his recent dubia.

“The Holy Spirit is very often invoked in the perspective of the synod … but there is not a single word about the obedience due to the inspirations of the Holy Spirit that are always consistent with the truth of the perennial doctrine and the goodness of the perennial discipline that He has inspired throughout the centuries,” Burke said at an event organized by La Nuova Bussola Quotidiana and entitled “The Synodal Babel.” (A transcript of the cardinal’s speech can be found here.)

Burke’s comments came as he headlined a conference held October 3 in Rome on the eve of the Synod and one day after the dubia on the Synod was published. Cardinal Burke joined Fr. Gerald Murray, a canonist, and Professor Stefano Fontana, a philosopher, in outlining the theological, canonical and philosophical errors and dangers of the Synod on Synodality.

“It is unfortunately very clear that the invocation of the Holy Spirit on the side of some has for its purpose the advancement of an agenda that is more political and human than ecclesial and divine,” Burke warned.

The Church’s agenda and only one, that is, the pursuit of the common good of the Church, that is, the salvation of souls, the salus animarum which ‘in Ecclesia suprema semper lex esse debet.’ The Church’s agenda is the Church’s common good.

Thank God for Cardinal Burke and others who are standing up and speaking out. Silence only advances confusion and sin right now.

We live in interesting times and this time requires courage.