Bizarre Penitential Vigil in St. Peter’s: The ‘Synodal Church’ Confesses Its Sins

Bizarre penitential vigil in St. Peter’s Basilica…

The ‘Synodal Church’ Confesses Its Sins

This month, the ultimate Novus Ordo blather circus returns to Vatican City for its second round: the much-touted ‘Synod on Synodality’!

From Oct. 2-27, hundreds of synod participants will spend three-and-a-half weeks taking part in the final act of this ‘mother of all synods’. Originally meant to run only from 2021-2023, Jorge Bergoglio (‘Pope Francis’) saw fit to extend it by a year to help ensure the ultimate ‘walking together’ experience.

For those don’t remember how this went last year, here’s a refresher:

• The 2023 Synod on Synodality: Complete Resource Page

Like last year, a pre-synod retreat was held, from Sep. 30 and Oct. 1. During it, the scandalous ‘Fr.’ Timothy Radcliffe, O.P., offered meditations on ‘Resurrection Fishing’ and what not, and he fearlessly proclaimed: “We must dare to trust that Divine Providence will richly bless this Synod. … We are not here to eat a meagre meal, but to savour the haute cuisine of the Kingdom of God”.

With that kind of spiritual instruction and refreshment, what is this synodal assembly poised to become if not “the most important process in the Catholic Church since the Second Vatican Council” (as Bergoglian cheerleader Austen Ivereigh called it last November), triggering another “renewed Pentecost” for the Vatican II Church? It’s such a shame that most ‘Catholics’ don’t know or care about this almost divinely-inspired gathering.

This year’s two-day pre-synod retreat concluded with a solemn ‘penitential vigil’ Oct. 1 in which the participants communally confessed a number of bizarre ‘sins’, the whole list of which was created by none other than ‘Pope’ Bergoglio himself. An official press release of the Synod organizers listed them as follows:

• Sin against peace
• Sin against creation, against indigenous populations, against migrants
• Sin of abuse
• Sin against women, family, youth
• Sin of using doctrine as stones to be hurled
• Sin against poverty
• Sin against synodality/lack of listening, communion, and participation of all

We notice that sins against God — such as heresy and blasphemy, for example — were conspicuously absent, but then the Creator is clearly much less important in this bureaucratic behemoth than the creature.

In fact, ‘Pope’ Francis reportedly said we need to ask for forgiveness from the earth: “We could not invoke God’s name without asking for forgiveness from our brothers and sisters, the Earth and all creatures”. Perhaps the New Church will update its Confiteor soon so that sins are confessed not only “to almighty God and to you, my brothers and sisters,” but now also ‘Mother Earth’ (Gaia, Pachamama) and all of creation?

In any case, concerning this bizarre list of sins, a former executive director of government relations for the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops writes:

A friend recently sent me a document from the Vatican that at first I thought was a parody of the Synod on Synodality. It was too silly to be serious, so I thought. By now, however, I should know better. It was not a parody. The letterhead from the General Secretary of the Synod and the Diocese of Rome is official, and the document is hosted on a Vatican URL.

(Jayd Henricks, “The Sins of the Synod”, Catholic World Report, Sep. 26, 2024)

Various news reports give frightful details of how that ‘penitential vigil’ went down:

• Pope leads penitential service on eve of Synod with cardinals confessing list of new sins (Life Site)
• On eve of novel synod, pope asks pardon for new index of sins (Crux)
• Pope Francis at Vigil: We are here as beggars of God’s mercy (Vatican News)

The public ‘confessions’ are clearly laden with Bergoglian ideology. For example, ‘Cardinal’ Victor Manuel Fernandez asked pardon for

all the times that in the Church, especially us pastors who are entrusted with the task of confirming our brothers and sisters in the faith, have not been able to guard and propose the Gospel as a living source of eternal newness, “indoctrinating it” and risking reducing it to a pile of dead stones to be thrown at others. I beg forgiveness, feeling shame for all the times we have given doctrinal justification to inhuman treatment.

I ask forgiveness, feeling shame for when we have not been credible witnesses of the fact that the truth is free, for when we have obstructed the various legitimate inculturations of the truth of Jesus Christ, who always travels the paths of history and life to be found by those who want to follow him with fidelity and joy. I ask forgiveness, feeling shame for the actions and omissions that have prevented and still make difficult the recomposition in unity of the Christian faith, and the authentic fraternity of all mankind.

(‘Cardinal’ Victor M. Fernandez, quoted in Michael Haynes, “Pope leads penitential service on eve of Synod with cardinals confessing list of new sins”, Life Site, Oct. 1, 2024.)

A video of this pseudo-spiritual freak show was released by Vatican News, along with a brief clip of just the highlights:

It looks like the Novus Ordo religion is gradually updating its catalogue of sins by replacing ‘outdated’ ones with new ones.

For example, there are a number of real sins that are not really considered sins anymore in the Bergoglian sect, or at least not mortal sins, depending on which cleric-in-full-communion one follows. These include, but are not limited to: adultery (could be “what God Himself is asking”!), adherence to a false religion (could be “necessary”!), cohabitation (could actually be a real marriage!), cross-dressing (because identity!), sodomy (won’t make you “lose your dignity”, could be “willed by God!”), missing Mass on a Sunday or holyday (won’t matter on judgment day and may even be better than going!), sins of the flesh in general (“least serious sins”!), etc.

On the flip side, Francis has created new ‘sins’ that didn’t exist before, such as:

• proselytism – “worst sin a missionary can commit”!
• converting the Orthodox to Catholicism – “great sin against ecumenism”!
• clericalism – “Clericalism is a perversion and is the root of many evils in the Church”!
• the death penalty – “inadmissible” because “human dignity!
• going backwards – that “sin of going backwards”!
• not looking a beggar in the eye when giving alms – “those alms are for you, not for that person”!
• ecocide – “sins against ecology”

What we see here is the latest — and perhaps most grotesque yet — effort to replace the Roman Catholic religion, step by step, with a strange new religion that has its origins not in God but in the deepest pits of hell.

If the 2024 Synod on Synodality can make more people realize this, then it won’t have been a complete waste of time after all.

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