Faithful bishops! Leave the Synod!
By Hilary White
Well, it looks like we’ve been giving people ideas.
“Get Out of the Water!” {.title}
I address now the Synod Fathers:
Each of you is a Shepherd and we are your flock and we know of it all too well. Lay people cannot simply sit back and watch this travesty and so while I can only say this is my own opinion, there will be some who most assuredly agree: you are being used. You are the icing on the cake of the revolution.
Cardinals and Bishops: By now you must know that your presence at the Synod on the Family – which has retained, all thanks to the Pope himself, those controversial elements which were voted out of prospective further debate by you and your brothers – has been clearly shown to be nothing but cosmetic.
You are there not because your voice or opinion is welcome – unless of course, you are prepared to renounce that which you are called to uphold – but rather in order to lend legitimacy to the overthrow of Christ’s own teaching by the backdoor.
The other day, when Laurence and I discussed his article calling for those bishops under lockdown at the Synod simply to leave, I had a kind of inkling that it would catch on.
The following has been drafted by a group of Catholic laypeople who feel that there is simply nothing more to be gained by continuing to participate in this “synodal process” that is manifestly corrupt:
Esteemed Synod Fathers,
We thank you for your witness to and defense of the truth of Matrimony and Family proclaimed by the Church, in fidelity to our Lord Jesus Christ. As the Ordinary Synod on the Family continues its work, confusion and scandal spread among the faithful. Catholics are concerned that some members of this body of apostolic successors, under the guidance of the Pope, are seeking to endorse homosexual relationships, effectively question the indissolubility of marriage, and permit the distribution of the Holy Eucharist to the unrepentant.
They go into details, mostly quoted from some of the bishops who have been able to make themselves heard. But the basic gist is that a group of Catholic bloggers, writers, journalists and lay faithful have had it, and we were sort of wondering if maybe some of the bishops have too.
We are, in effect, calling for a vote of no-confidence. We have no confidence in this “synodal process”. We have no confidence that the pope and his group of hand-picked manifest heretics will suddenly, magically, produce a Catholic rabbit out of the Synod’s hat. Let’s face it, there has been no secret about what these people intended to do from the first day. Since that day. Since the day that the hand picked representative of the pope told the cardinals and the whole world what they intended to do.
Just to recap some of the Synod’s week-one highlights…
Cf: 
“…whenever anything happens of controversy in the Synod Hall among the bishops, Fr. Lombardi and Fr. Rosica say nothing, reveal nothing, talk about none of it. They are masters at their profession of manipulating and orchestrating the flow of information to the media.
“Something a little less controversial had occurred last week, and when the press found about it and asked questions about it and why Fr. Lombardi hadn’t told them about it, Lombardi simply answered, ‘I don’t have to tell you anything I don’t want to.’”
and
“Thirteen Cardinals Have Written to the Pope. Here’s the Letter. But Francis has rejected their requests en bloc. And meanwhile, the “Relatio finalis” has disappeared from the program of the synod…”
“Once the meeting is over, power will rest entirely in the hands of the Pope.”
and
“Cardinal Danneels Admits to Being Part of ‘Mafia’ Club Opposed to Benedict XVI…New authorised biography also reveals papal delegate at upcoming synod wrote letter to Belgium government supporting same-sex “marriage” legislation because it ended discrimination against LGBT groups”
oh, and
“At this morning’s press conference Cardinal Baldisseri reassured journalists that there was no need to be concerned about allegations that the synod would be manipulated because a committee of ten would oversee the proceedings. He then announced that the membership of the committee would include himself and Archbishop Forte.
In other words, the committee which is supposed to give us confidence that no manipulation is taking place includes the very men most implicated in the manipulation.”
And let’s not imagine for a moment that this guy
was acting on his own.
It was worded more politely at the end of the letter on the petition, but I think I will say it plainly:
any bishop who is still sitting in his chair in the Aula comfortably “dialoguing” at the end of this, is complicit.
We will hold you ALL accountable.
Sign the petition: Bishops Leave the Synod!