Synodality: Self-Discovery Over Salvation

Synodality represents the full maturity of the modernism condemned by Pope St. Pius X over a century ago. Quite simply, modernism and synodality venture to make the concrete Depositum Fidei into a malleable mass of subjective impressions. Here, Hegelian dialectic supplants creedal exactitude. More mincing souls would find that description too harsh or overbearing, but it expresses the truth. No less than the former prefect of the Holy Office, Gerhard Cardinal Müller, summarized the whole synodal enterprise with a damning indictment titled The Seven Sins Against the Holy Spirit: A Synodal Tragedy. Against the faint of heart I stand with this titanic Catholic intellect.
Overintellectualized approaches to this question only lead to abstract solutions offered by pipe-smoking theologians in their cosseted faculty lounges. The Son of God, however, never dealt in abstractions, which is why the Creed is expressed with such thunderous clarity. Heresy always hides in the shadows of so-called …