How to Use Synodality for Tradition

Good luck with this. If my experience in the Episcopal Church taught me anything, it is that the liberals can out "meeting" us any day of the week. Just stop the "synodal" madness!

From One Peter Five

By Timothy Flanders, MA

At OnePeterFive, we try our best to cover the news coming out of the Vatican. This means telling the truth – the whole, ugly truth, whatever it is, as well as any good news, like the good things Pope Francis did – but with the utmost charity possible. (I’m constantly pained in my conscience when I try to tell the truth with Erasmian humour, as best I can, because I never want to provoke any soul to harden their hearts against their spiritual fathers, and especially the Holy Father – say a Hail Mary for me!).

So we’ve been following the Neo-Modernist dream of the St. Gallen Mafia, aka “Synodality,” for the past few years. None of us has any illusions about this, and “mainstream” Bishops and Cardinals (like Müller, the erstwhile head of the Office Formerly Known as Holy), have denounced “Synodality” as a “hostile takeover of the Church.”

But what we really want to do at OnePeterFive is point the way toward a solution. Let’s talk about the reality of the situation, let’s reverence our (bad) bishops, yes, but then let’s get off the internet and on our knees.

We’ve got the traditional Faith, now let’s conquer in the Name of His Majesty.

We’ve founded our sodalities for this reason (Crusade, the Fast, and the Fatima Icon). But something new occurred to me while I was reading the latest document on the Meeting about Meeting about Meeting about Meetings from the Vatican and that is this:

We can use this against them.

First of all, let’s not kid ourselves: we know that Synodality is the plot of the Neo-Modernists to overthrow the Church. But what would our forefathers say, who by faith conquered kingdoms, wrought justice, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, recovered strength from weakness, became valiant in battle, put to flight the armies of foreigners (Heb. xi. 33-34)?

We don’t know yet whether Pope Leo is “Francis 2.0” or trying to salvage Synodality on behalf of orthodoxy. But let’s assume for the moment, the worst possible scenario that some Trads are saying right now: Pope Leo is Francis II in the worst possible sense.

So again: what would our forefathers say? What would our Trad Godfathers say, who faced a much worse situation?

Bring it on.