LifeSiteNews continues to do an outstanding reporting job (Let’s think about sending them a contribution, please!):
- Pastoral Paternalism instead of plain speech
- Media excerpts reveal incredible confusion surrounding Pope Francis Synod on Family
- Bishop Schneider: The Synod’s final report compromises with the ‘culture of divorce’
- Ukrainian Synod Father: We can’t sugarcoat the Gospel
- German Bishops’ Influence on the Synod
- Jon Voight, the Synod and devious Progressives
- Toronto Cardinal criticizes Wuerl, Rosica
- Some good news in Synod’s final report
- Kim Davis bleeding in the rear view mirror
While the last subject isn’t about the Synod per se, nevertheless it is handled (or manhandled as the case may be) by some of the same clergy responsible for architecting Synod news. And the mechanism is especially transparent. There is a very — very — small circle around Pope Francis to translate and approve what the English versions say. In some ways, he may even be like the alleged “Prisoner of the Vatican” (Pius IX), not with troops, but without language. The inner circle can function more as a noose, make him look good or bad, wise or not, and filter the Synod news as well as travel news and even encyclicals. It is a fair question to wonder who pulls the puppet strings, if there are any? And how would we ever know?
Tags: Synod 2014-15
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