Fr. Chazal sermon, TIMESTAMP 12: 02, speaks of 'good bishops'. A few minutes later he says: The Truth will come out...
I know nothing of this Cardinal, but this sounds positive.
I enjoyed this article. 97 years old and this Cardinal retains a healthy interpretation of the Catholic Church's history.
Please excuse me, but I don't normally care what the N.Ordos are up to...There are a couple of things I am ignorant about:
1. Which came first? Synods or Episcopal conferences?
2.Synods are increasing because Episcopal Conferences have high prestige? I don't understand that, but the translation looks right.
Quote: "... rise and prestige of the episcopal conferences have resulted in their replacement of the synods and their increasing politicization."
AI Translation: Excerpts.
Summary: What is the laity doing in a synod anyway?? Smacks of Martin Luther >corrupted.
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https://lesalonbeige.fr/le-cardinal-brandmuller-met-en-garde-contre-une-synodalite-en-partie-inspiree-par-le-protestantisme/ Cardinal Walter Brandmüller has published a new criticism of the Synod on Synodality and the Current Structure of Ecclesiastical Governance. (...) analysis published by Vaticanist Sandro Magister, the 97-year-old German prelate exposed an authentic conception of the synod and warned against the ease with which this assembly can be corrupted.
Like many analysts, he [Sandro M.] found that “a clear and unambiguous definition of this word [synodality] is still lacking.” Therefore, Brandmüller stressed that, according to the traditional conception of the Church, a synod is “a meeting of bishops with the aim of jointly exercising their magisterial and pastoral ministry.”
Created cardinal(...) in 2010, Brandmüller is a respected Church historian, having held the post of President of the Pontifical Committee for the Historical Sciences of the Vatican for 11 years.
Referring to the mode of organization of the Synod on Synodality, which included lay and clerical voters, Brandmüller said that it could not be described as a synod. The reason for this is that “neither priests nor lay people can exercise the magisterial and pastoral ministry conferred solely on bishops through the sacrament of order.”
As a result, he warned that the multiplication of this type of meetings within the Church – which has developed in particular thanks to the multi-year synod on synodality – risks desecrating the Church. These meetings stem from “
a desire to adopt, more or less without a critical mind, secular structures and democratic procedures in ecclesial life, in order to remain in line with its time [keep updating Td. ],” said the cardinal.
(...) with the rise of this type of meeting and organization, the Church was moving away from its own well-established method of holding a synod and was inspired by the Protestant style.
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A type of synod is proposed in the Catholic realm, inspired in part by the Protestant model, whose members are democratically elected among pastors, men and women with professional expertise and diverse cultural contexts, all with equal voice. »
The cardinal compared this evolution to the Protestant revolution and to Martin Luther, pointing out how Luther had argued for this type of involvement of the laity (...) he “asserted that Baptism alone is enough to make a man or a woman priest, bishop and pope.”
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It is clear that such a conception of synodality is incompatible with Catholic ecclesiology.”
He also warned that negative consequences had been observed within the Church following the adoption of decision-making methods or secularized meetings. According to Brandmüller, the development of episcopal conferences was part of it.
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Their framework of reference was not the hierarchical structure of the Church, but rather the State concerned.” "T
herefore, the consultative and decision-making activity of the conference was limited to issues relating to the place and action of the Church in the modern secular state."
But since this was the initial role of the Episcopal Conferences, Brandmüller deplored that Pope Francis had strengthened them in (...) Evangelii Gaudium of 2013. Francis expressed his regret that “a legal status for episcopal conferences, conferring specific powers on them, including a true doctrinal authority, has not yet been sufficiently defined.” This initiative risked undermining the primacy of the doctrinal authority reserved for the papacy, Brandmüller warned.
According to him, the rise and prestige of the episcopal conferences have resulted in their replacement of the synods and their increasing politicization.
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It is difficult to ignore that this is a testament to the growing secularization of the conception of the Church. "Brandmüller went so far as to affirm that, in the modern and political style of the episcopal conferences,
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We recognize an ecclesiological neo-arianism which, without expressly denying the supernatural character of the Church, ignores it more or less: the Church as a social entity.”
Instead of following this growing trend, he insisted that synods should be restored within the particular Churches and, in doing so, restore “their original importance.” This, according to Brandmüller, would help to “effectively counter the Church’s process of secularization and take a decisive step towards her “de-secularization.”
Despite his advanced age, Brandmüller(...) joined two other cardinals to address dubium to Pope Francis: for the first time in 2016 about Amoris Laetitia, and then in 2023 about the Synod on Synodality. In signing the dubia of 2023, the five cardinals warned that the Synod was an event “that many want to use to deny Catholic doctrine on the very issues raised by our dubia.” The detailed questions of the dubia had to be readressed to the Pope, because his initial answers had only “accentuated” the concerns expressed (...). In addition to Brandmüller, the signatories of the of 2023 were Raymond L. Burke,(...); Juan Sandoval Íñiguez, (...); Robert Sarah, (...); and Joseph Zen, (...)
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