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Belisarius's avatar

I joined the Catholic Church in 2022 after experiencing the utter mess and doctrinal confusion that has swept through evangelicalism and protestantism. Its really hard for me not to hear the rhetoric around the synod on synodality and think that this is any different than what has happened in one protestant church after another. Those of us who come from that sort of background are very familiar with this game. The path of heresy never starts with an outright call to heresy, but by asking questions and casting doubt. That so many Catholics can look at the synod with such suspicion is proof that such doubt exists, that the path has already begun. I hope and pray that the Holy Spirit will truly be at work and that my fear will be proved wrong, but having been down this road before, Catholics would be foolish to not voice concern. Take a hard look at what has happened and is happening in protestantism and be on guard.

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Peter's avatar

I chaff a little at the characterization of those who say the synod has a “predetermined outcome”. This isn’t the idea that the report is already physically written, which discerning people would likely not earnestly assert. It’s more that the direction of the synod is predetermined in a general way by the way is spoken of, who’s invited, and the way it’s run. JD expressed similar sentiments to these when he noted in the podcast that there are a lot of assumptions in the questions up for discussion and that these underlying assumptions were not up for debate. There is every reason to be skeptical of the synod.

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