It Is Here.....The Dubia Against the Synod!

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Happy October...I think?  Yes, tomorrow is the Traditional Feast day of St. Therese and I will post something tomorrow. Today, we have exciting news that five Cardinals have stepped forward to confront Papa Bergoglio on his "Make a Mess" Synod. Yes, this Synod will make a mess and most likely cause a great schism in the Church. Below are the highlights of this dubia (doubts) and article links below with more details and a video. May we keep Papa Bergoglio and his synod in prayer because if this Synod and all that it brings becomes reality in the Catholic Church.....you can be sure God is going to answer if the Pope does not ..... regarding this synod and its dubia.

Taken from Cruxnow.com....

"The signatories to the new dubia are German Cardinal Walter Brandmüller, American Cardinal Raymond Burke, Mexican Cardinal Sandoval Íñiguez, Guinean Cardinal Robert Sarah, and Cardinal Joseph Zen, the former Bishop of Hong Kong.


Both Brandmüller, 94, and Burke, 75, were among the signatories of the dubia presented to Pope Francis in 2016. Burke recently authored the preface to a booklet published by conservative organization Tradition, Family and Property (TFP) calling the synod “schismatic.”

None of the five cardinals who submitted the new set of dubia are among the roughly 400 participants in the synod, which opens Wednesday morning and is scheduled to meet until Oct. 29.

Their decision to submit the dubia “is not out of fear of dialogue with the people of our time, nor of the questions they could ask us about the Gospel of Christ.”
“The concern that moves us is another: We are concerned to see that there are pastors who doubt the ability of the Gospel to transform the hearts of men and end up proposing to them no longer sound doctrine but ‘teachings according to their own likings’,” they wrote.

“We are also concerned that it be understood that God’s mercy does not consist in covering our sins, but is much greater, in that it enables us to respond to His love by keeping His commandments, that is, to convert and believe in the Gospel,” they said.
To this end, they said the pope’s answers did not resolve their doubts, and asked him to respond to five rephrased questions in a yes-or-no format:

• “Is it possible for the Church today to teach doctrines contrary to those she has previously taught in matters of faith and morals, whether by the Pope ex cathedra, or in the definitions of an Ecumenical Council, or in the ordinary universal magisterium of the bishops dispersed throughout the world?”

 

• “Is it possible that in some circumstances a pastor could bless unions between homosexual persons, thus suggesting that homosexual behavior as such would not be contrary to God’s law and the person’s journey toward God? Linked to this dubium is the need to raise another: Does the teaching upheld by the universal ordinary magisterium, that every sexual act outside of marriage, and in particular homosexual acts, constitutes an objectively grave sin against God’s law, regardless of the circumstances in which it takes place and the intention with which it is carried out, continue to be valid?”

 

• Will the Synod of Bishops to be held in Rome, and which includes only a chosen representation of pastors and faithful, exercise, in the doctrinal or pastoral matters on which it will be called to express itself, the supreme authority of the church, which belongs exclusively to the Roman Pontiff and, una cum capite suo, to the College of Bishops?”

 

• Could the Church in the future have the faculty to confer priestly ordination on women, thus contradicting that the exclusive reservation of this sacrament to baptized males belongs to the very substance of the Sacrament of Orders, which the Church cannot change?

 

• Can a penitent who, while admitting a sin, refuses to make, in any way, the intention not to commit it again, validly receive sacramental absolution?

In their letter to the faithful, the cardinals said, “Given the gravity of the matter of the dubia, especially in view of the imminent session of the Synod of Bishops, we judge it our duty to inform you, the faithful, so that you may not be subject to confusion, error, and discouragement.”

Rather, the said faithful must “pray for the universal Church and, in particular, the Roman Pontiff, that the Gospel may be taught ever more clearly and followed ever more faithfully.”

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Original Dubia posted by TFP

Crux Now Article Oct 2, 2023

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