De Omnibus Dubitandum Est.

  Yesterday (30th Jan 2023) Cardinals Grech & Hollerich — Secretary General & General Relator of the Synod on Synodality — sent a letter to all bishops on the role of bishops in the synodal process. To state the blindingly obvious, this would seem to be a bit late on in the process to be explaining to bishops what exactly it is they are supposed to have been doing for the last few years, but perhaps that is because no one has much of a clue. Even their own website is baffling . The whole thing seems to be word salad. In their letter, Grech and Hollerich also say that they wish to clarify any misunderstanding over what the Synod is truly about. Sadly, if that truly was their intention, this letter fails miserably. What the letter does do is desperately try to tie synodality to Vatican II ( a reminder that synodality is a complete novelty and appears nowhere in Vatican II's documents) and also tries to use Lumen Gentium 12 to force a deeply spurious  argumentum ad popul...

  In this video Trent addresses the comments of Cardinal Hollerich recently who, during an interview with the German Catholic news agency KNA, stated that Church teaching related to homosexuality “is false,” because the “sociological-scientific foundation of this teaching is no longer correct.” See this report in the Register for more on that. Trent argues that the argument for homosexuality in the Church is born of a basic universalism: the pernicious idea that everyone goes to heaven. Once you dispense with hell, the Church becomes about making people "happy" and instigating social welfare programmes. Personally I think the main problem is that so few Catholics understand what the Church teaches - the fact that the Church asks no more from homosexual persons than it does for everyone else. Also how the teaching is rooted in the dignity of the human person as opposed to ideology which seeks to supplant the imago Dei with sexual desire as the central tenet of our humanity....