Synod Day 5: Small Group Reports Made Public

National Catholic Register ^ | 10/9/15 | Edward Pentin

[markomalley]

Pope Francis made an unscheduled appeal at the Synod on the Family Friday morning to invite the synod fathers to pray for peace in the Middle East and areas of conflict in Africa.

In his message to the fourth general congregation of the synod, the Pope also called on the international community to find a way of resolving current conflicts, saying “hope and progress come only from the choice to pursue peace.”

Also Friday, the Vatican published the first reports from the synod’s 13 small language groups, while Cardinal Lorenzo Baldisseri, secretary general of the Synod of Bishops, reiterated that synod fathers could publish their own interventions but not those of other participants.

His instruction came after one synod participant published summaries of the synod fathers’ interventions, revealing one cardinal, Panamanian Archbishop Jose Luis Lacunza Maestrojuan, to have questioned the law of Christ.

Cardinal Wilfrid Napier of South Africa, one of the five co-presidents of the synod, said “real work has been taking place” in the small groups which began meeting on Tuesday afternoon. “They have produced excellent reports that really gave us a good idea at all levels of discussion. I got a very positive impression.”

English group A, moderated by Cardinal George Pell, the prefect of the Secretariat for the Economy, with Archbishop Joseph Kurtz, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, asked that the instrumentum laboris (working document) for the synod, “make reference to sacred Scripture and tradition throughout” the document, and noted that it had an “overly bleak description of the contemporary scene.”

[Mrs. Don-o]

I believe God will deal with this the way He has always, through history, dealt with crises in the Church: by raising up saints. We may know who some of them are (I have my list of probables) and some of them, we may not. But they will, by their prayers, works, joys and sufferings, in union with the Holy Spirit, prevent it from all going smash.

"Some demons are not expelled except by prayer and fasting."

We must pray and fast with these saints and for them.

Think of them. Love them.

Pray hard.

[ebb tide]

Also Friday, the Vatican published the first reports from the synod’s 13 small language groups, while Cardinal Lorenzo Baldisseri, secretary general of the Synod of Bishops, reiterated that synod fathers could publish their own interventions but not those of other participants.

More evidence of rigging: the heretics, like roaches, will not reveal themselves. And Baldiserri and Francis will keep the orthodox participants from exposing the speeches of such apostates as Maestrojuan, Marx, Kasper, etc.

[markomalley]

I believe God will deal with this the way He has always, through history, dealt with crises in the Church: by raising up saints. We may know who some of them are (I have my list of probables) and some of them, we may not. But they will, by their prayers, works, joys and sufferings, in union with the Holy Spirit, prevent it from all going smash.

I will say this much, those opposed to Christ (both within and without the Church) are becoming bolder by the moment.

We must pray and fast with these saints and for them.

Indeed.

We must equally pray for those who would try to move the Church away from Christ. Pray for the intervention of St Michael and the saints (St. Nicholas and St. Athanasius come to mind right off the bat)