“Hope challenges us, moves us and shatters that conformism which says ‘it’s always been done like this.’” – Pope Francis’s opening address to Synod on Youth
Pope Francis said today he wants the Synod on Youth in Rome to be “anointed by hope.” But he cannot be talking about the theological virtue of hope, which looks with longing toward union with Our Lord in Heaven, for the Pope defines hope as being something that “shatters … conformism.” Conformism to what? To tradition, apparently.
The Pope identifies hope with change, with a rejection of how things have always been done in the Church. What can this mean in the context of a Synod on Youth? It can only mean an express desire that the Church’s teaching in all the areas that the Synod document has marked out for discussion be changed. And these discussions will all revolve around sexual themes: fornication, homosexuality, divorce and remarriage, the ordination of women.
What does the Pope want shattered? The constant teaching of the Church that homosexuality is intrinsically disordered and all homosexual acts are mortal sin? That sex outside of marriage is mortal sin? That a Catholic cannot remain in communion with the Church if he divorces and “remarries” and persists in living in adultery? That women can become priests, despite a bi-millennial teaching that this is impossible?
It would seem that the Pope is inviting the Synod to “shatter” all of these immemorial teachings. And the Pope has already said that the Synod’s conclusions will become part of magisterial teaching. In other words, no dissent from it will be allowed. A crisis is looming!
We are facing a disaster such as we have never faced! Stay with us as we fight for truth in Rome. Pray the 9-day novena with us, and stay tuned as we report from Rome daily on Fatima.org during the course of this Synod that is like a dagger aimed at the heart of the Church!