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Cardinal Burke told Raymond Arroyo: No one has been able to define what the meaning of synodality is – this has become kind of a place holder for advancing all kind of ideas about the Church, about the sacred liturgy. [Rejecting the idea that the synod] is an essential mark of the Church. The Church’s hierarchical communion has taught, and the Second Vatican Council is clear from Our Lord’s own example.

Pope Francis announced that he was replacing the staunchly pro-life, pro-family Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted of the Diocese of Phoenix with the militant pro-homosexuality Bishop John P. Dolan, auxiliary bishop of San Diego. As parish priest of a ‘scandalously pro-LGBT parish’ Bishop Dolan employed an openly homosexual man ....

This is truly sad, as Bishop Olmsted did so much good for his diocese.

For the most part, I've stopped highlighting or I'd end up highlighting the entire book... It's an endless repetition of the same errors. (sigh)

Have gotten to the Dubia, where the Cardinals sent it to Pope Francis, then released the public statement because he ignored it. Then they followed up with a request to see him. He ignored all of their efforts but made a number of snide remarks which were obviously directed at them.

Recounting the episode in the Gospel of our Lord’s conversation with the woman caught in adultery, Pope Francis also told the delegates Jesus ‘plays the fool a bit’ and that he ‘was scant on morality’. He also said, incomprehensibly, that Jesus was not ‘a clean one’. The official Vatican transcript changed Pope Francis’ statement that Jesus ‘plays the fool a bit’ to ‘pretended not to understand’.

Cardinal St Peter Damian wrote a letter to Pope St. Leo IX, also known as the Book of Gomorrah, that emphasized the divine imperative to punish those who engaged in sodomy. Drawing on the Pauline insights into God’s punishment of sodomites with moral blindness and abandonment to increasing depravity St. Peter Damian wrote, 'While they are slaves to sin, he does not permit them to see what they need to do...'

Contrary to Pope Francis’ assertion that converting other Christians is a ‘very grave sin against ecumenism’, Vatican II insisted that there is no opposition between the conversion of other Christians and ecumenism, ‘since both proceed from the marvelous ways of God.’

Pope Francis and Cardinal Fernández’s Dignitas Infinita is fundamentally irreconcilable with sacred Scripture and sacred Tradition’s understanding of the nature of God and human nature. By claiming that man possesses an inviolable ontological dignity, in contradiction to doctrine on original sin, Dignitas Infinita’s anthropology descends to the level of gnosis.