WELL, that didn’t take long! Cindy Wooden‏@Cindy_Wooden Card. Vingt-Trois & spox for Card. Scola say they never signed supposed letter of “13 cardinals” expressing concern about #Synod15.3:40 AM – 12 Oct 2015 ~ Andrea Tornielli‏@Tornielli Anche il cardinale Piacenza smentisce di aver firmato la lettera di cui parla Magister [ [Cardinal Piacenza also denies that he has signed a letter mentioned by Magister] …Personally, I’m disappointed in Piacenza…

Laurence asks out loud, perhaps for the first time, though I bet not the last: Given that you all are clearly being used to further an anti-Christian agenda, perhaps it’s time to “consider shaking the dust off their feet and leaving the Synod Hall.” They’re not going to let you vote? Vote with your feet. Send a message that this bad pope and his cronies aren’t the whole Church, and that you will not be manipulated to oppose the Faith of Christ.

Just play it over and over until you feel awesome. **Everything is cool when you’re part of team; everything is awesome when we live in our dream… ** ~

Nothing to see here… everything’s awesome… move along… WUWTS really isn’t about keeping up the with the news developments. Seriously, there aren’t enough hours in the day, and I’m not being paid. But I think Sandro Magister has everything about this that’s worth noting in a single headline and sub-head: 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

…but a long, slow, painful, stinking death by gangrene. A WUWTS exclusive: Maureen Mullarkey (yes, that Maureen Mullarkey) shares her prediction on how it will all play out. She reiterates a thought I had before it started. Given the way they have set things up, with none of the bishops’ interventions being published, we have absolutely no way of knowing whether the things we’re being told they’re talking about are indeed the things they’re talking about.

_[In which Dorothy recounts one step in her slow march over to the Dark Side… Join us, Dorothy! Join the Traddie snark brigade! Nothing any bishop does will ever scare you again!…HJMW]_ If you will cast your minds back to October 2014, you may recall the pit of your stomach falling away and panic coursing through your veins as social media filled with the incredible news that, within the first week, the Synod of the Family had suggested communion for the divorced-and-remarried, posited the special gifts and talents of homosexuals (as homosexuals) and lobbied for a special, back-bending welcome for them (as homosexuals).

Go to church. Then call your grandma, take the dog for a walk, go to the park and play with your kids, prune the roses, eat lunch with your friends. Also, Canadians, get the turkey stuffed and the pumpkin pie ready for tomorrow. No more innernet or Synod today. ~

_Strong language and adult themes warning. We’re going to talk about what homosexual acts really are, so read this after the kids have gone to bed. Ann’s choice of language here is deliberate. Just to head off the expected criticism: it is not “pornographic” but merely factually, one might say, medically descriptive. I have long been arguing that one of the reasons there is such a vast acceptance of the “nice gay men” movement is that no one is willing to actually talk clearly about what they do.

  “Got to find just the kind for losin’ my mind!” Here’s the whole RD soundtrack.   ~

This one goes out to our hero, the archbishop of Chicago, Blase Never-met-a-logical-contradiction-I-couldnt-reconcile, Cupich! So does this one… ~