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In The Rigging of a Vatican Synod?, Pentin recounts that some months before the 2014 Extraordinary Synod, the Synod Secretariat contacted the Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and the Family — known for its fidelity to Catholic moral teaching — to recommend experts to participate in the Synod. In the end, none of the recommended experts were invited to participate in the Synod. Pentin wrote how he learned from a high-level Vatican source that the institute was asked to name the leading orthodox experts so that the Secretariat could ensure that these would be excluded from participating in the synod.

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Ask conservative members of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America how well that “bound conscience” thingy worked out in 2009.