{"id":504,"date":"2014-10-13T17:42:03","date_gmt":"2014-10-13T21:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/catholicpopulist.com\/?p=504"},"modified":"2014-10-13T17:43:51","modified_gmt":"2014-10-13T21:43:51","slug":"why-the-synod-has-no-magisterial-significance-hint-latin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catholicpopulist.com\/?p=504","title":{"rendered":"Why the Synod Has No Magisterial Significance (Hint: Latin)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The mealy-mouthed, politically correct\u00a0betrayal<\/a>\u00a0of the Catholic Church occurring at the Synod of the Family in Rome is magisterially irrelevant.<\/p>\n

There are two main audiences to this news. \u00a0There are those living in what the Catechism of the Catholic Church defines as grave sin — fornication, homosexual relations,\u00a0or adulterous unions with a person who is not their spouse (the politically correct term is “divorced and remarried Catholics”). \u00a0Anyone who commits these sins\u00a0with full knowledge and consent is guilty of mortal sin and will go to Hell unless they abandon their previous lifestyle and go to confession. \u00a0Although the Synod may throw anesthetic on uneasy consciences, Catholics must continue to proclaim the truth to these people in charity.<\/p>\n

But there is another way the Synod can give scandal. \u00a0Faithful\u00a0Catholics struggling to conform their lives to the teaching of Church are going to be tempted to question the indefectability of the Church. \u00a0Jesus promised the Gates of Hell would never prevail against the Catholic Church.<\/p>\n

How can a Church contradict its magisterial teaching on sexual ethics do so without\u00a0the Gates of Hell prevailing against the Catholic Church?<\/p>\n

The answer is simple. \u00a0The contradiction against Catholic magisterium cannot take a magisterial form.<\/p>\n

For example, the “Pastoral Care for Homosexual Persons<\/a>,” released while Saint John Paul II was Pope and Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI was still \u00a0Cardinal Ratzinger, the Prefect of the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith, is magisterial. \u00a0It forbids Catholics from using reductionist terminology — “homosexual” when used as a noun (which conflates the homosexual inclination and the homosexual person), or\u00a0adjectives such as “gay” (which conflates the sin of homosexual sex with the\u00a0homosexual inclination). \u00a0Similar magisterial documents condemn<\/a>\u00a0same-sex civil unions as something a Catholic cannot support in good conscience.<\/p>\n

The document the Synod has released thus far directly defies the magisterial teaching in the Pastoral Care for Homosexual Persons by using the word homosexual as a noun. \u00a0It is possible that Pope Francis will release\u00a0a Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation\u00a0will also make the same mistake or others\u00a0(I certainly hope not, but it would not defy my expectations).<\/p>\n

No\u00a0Apostolic Exhortation coming out of this will not be part of the papal magisterium.<\/p>\n

When Evangelii Gaudium<\/a> came out, there was a great deal of controversy over the English translation using Leftist political\u00a0terms like “trickle-down economics.”<\/p>\n

Father Z suggested<\/a>\u00a0that the English translator had a political axe to grind and that the translation was unfaithful to the original Spanish draft. \u00a0He advised that we wait for the definitive Latin edition of the document to come out.<\/p>\n

So we waited. \u00a0And we waited. \u00a0And we waited.<\/p>\n

No definitive Latin publication of Evangelii Gaudium<\/a> was ever released.<\/p>\n

According to the Constitution Veterum Sapientia<\/a>\u00a0promulgated by Saint John XXIII, Latin is the official language of the Catholic\u00a0magisterium.<\/p>\n

No Latin = No Magisterial document.<\/p>\n

There is precedent for papal documents not to be written in Latin. \u00a0Pope\u00a0Saint\u00a0John Paul II would often write pastoral documents after his famous visits. \u00a0For example, he wrote a document about the Catholic Church in Europe and another document\u00a0about the Church\u00a0in Oceania. \u00a0These documents never had any Latin edition because they were not magisterial. \u00a0They were not universal in time or in geographic applicability. \u00a0They were a snapshot message from Pope Saint John Paul II to the people of that place and time.<\/p>\n

Cardinal Burke in an interview<\/a>\u00a0with EWTN (relevant section 20:00 minutes in) declared that he believed after reading Evangelii Gaudium that it was intended to be pastoral but non-magisterial. \u00a0The lack of any Latin translation tipped the hand of the Church.<\/p>\n

Cardinal Burke was right (as usual).<\/p>\n

And so now we come to the Synod on the Family. \u00a0On October 6, Pope Francis declared<\/a>\u00a0that Latin would not be the official language of the Synod.<\/p>\n

Given precedent, we can assume no Latin edition will ever be published.<\/p>\n

Now, the interesting question: Why?<\/p>\n

Pope Francis is not interested\u00a0in doctrine. \u00a0He has emphasized that doctrine cannot change. \u00a0But he seems willing to allow or encourage worldly<\/a>\u00a0German clerics to encourage more deference to sin by adopting the confusing terminology of modernity and allow people, in the words of Saint Paul “to eat and drink judgment on themselves.”<\/p>\n

Denethor despaired of the West: “The West has failed! \u00a0Go back and burn!”<\/p>\n

We must not despair or join the Denethors of modernity who encourage disobedience as a result of the cowardice and sinfulness of members of the Catholic Church (read: SSPX).<\/p>\n

Get thee to thy Bibles, be outspoken, shun despair, and do not lose heart. \u00a0The magisterium is protected by the Holy Spirit and\u00a0this Synod is\u00a0magisterially irrelevant.<\/p>\n

But when in Rome, do not do as the Synod Fathers do!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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