Cardinal Raymond Burke spoke on October 31 on EWTN about Francis' Synod on Synodality. An excerpt
Raymond Arroyo:
The Synod on Synodality just ended last week in Rome, sort of, the
study groups will continue to meet until June. But what do you think of
the final document calling for a new synodal version of the Mass and an
ongoing synodal process?
Cardinal Raymond Burke:
I've been very clear about this from the beginning. No one has been
able to define what the meaning of synodality is. It has become a kind
of a placeholder for promoting all kinds of ideas about the Church,
about the Sacred Liturgy. [...] There's a role for consultation,
according to the ancient synods, but it's not an essential mark of the
Church.
This is extremely troublesome and dangerous and needs to
be corrected. Now we have these study groups or whatever they're called.
This will only create more confusion and division to the harm of the
Church's mission. [...]
Raymond Arroyo:
US Cardinals Cupich [Chichago] and McElroy [San Diego] have called for
the US Bishops' Conference to revise its governance in order to reflect
this synodal church. What does that even mean? Can we expect lay people,
even non-Catholics, to be voting members of a national bishops'
conference?
Cardinal Burke:
Of course not. People who make these kinds of proposals ought to be
able to express, articulate clearly and understandably for the Catholic
faithful what it means. Otherwise, this is very dangerous, a dangerous
speech.
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