Pope Francis led the opening procession of the Synod of Bishops for the Pan-Amazon Region from St. Peter’s Basilica to the Synod Hall where he led the opening prayer, Oct. 7, 2019. / null
CNA Newsroom, Jul 8, 2023 / 08:30 am (CNA).
The Vatican has published the names of those participating in the upcoming Synod on Synodality assembly in October, including laypeople who will be full voting delegates at a Catholic Church synod for the first time.
The delegates are made up of representatives selected by bishops’ conferences and Eastern Catholic Churches, leaders in the Roman Curia, and 120 delegates personally selected by Pope Francis.
In total, 363 people will be able to vote in the 16th Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops, according to statistics released by the Holy See Press Office on July 7. Among them, 54 of the voting delegates are women.
In addition to the voting members, 75 other participants have been invited to the synod assembly to act as facilitators, experts, or spiritual assistants.
Here is full list of participants:
President
Pope Francis
General Secretary
Cardinal Mario Grech of Malta
President’s Delegates
His Beatitude Ibrahim Isaac Sedrak, Patriarch of Alexandria, head of the Synod of The Coptic Catholic Church, Egypt.
Cardinal Carlos Aguiar Retes, Archbishop of Mexico City, Mexico
Archbishop Gerardo Cabrera Herrera, O.F.M., of Guayaquil, Ecuador
Archbishop Timothy John Costelloe, S.D.B., of Perth, Australia
Bishop Daniel Ernest Flores of Brownsville, Texas, USA
Bishop Lúcio Andrice Muandula of Xai-Xai, Mozambique
Father Giuseppe Bonfrate (Italy)
Sister Maria De Los Dolores Palencia, C.S.J., Mexico
Momoko Nishimura, S.E.M.D. (Japan)
General Relator
Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich, S.J., Archbishop of Luxembourg
Special Secretaries
Father Giacomo Costa, S.J., Italy, president of Fondazione Culturale San Fedele of Milan, national spiritual companion of the Italian Christian Workers Associations
Father Riccardo Battocchio, Italy, Rector of the Almo Collegio Capranica, president of the Italian Theological Association
Commission for Information
President: Paolo Ruffini, Prefect of the Dicastery for Communication, Vatican City
Secretary: Sheila Leocádia Pires, communications officer, Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference (SACBC), Mozambique
From the Eastern Catholic Churches
His Beatitude Ibrahim Isaac Sedrak, Coptic Church Patriarch of Alexandria, head of the Synod of the Coptic Catholic Church
His Beatitude Youssef Absi, patriarch of Antioch of the Greek-Melkites, head of the Synod of the Greek Melkite Catholic Church
His Beatitude Ignace Youssef Iii Younan, Patriarch of Antioch of the Syrians, head of the Synod of the Syrian Catholic Church
Cardinal Béchara Boutros Raï, O.M.M., Patriarch of Antioch of the Maronites, head of the Synod of the Maronite Church
Bishop Mounir Khairallah of Batrun of the Maronites
Cardinal Louis Raphaël I Sako, Patriarch of Babylon of the Chaldeans, head of the Synod of the Chaldean Church
His Beatitude Raphaël Bedros XXI Minassian, I.C.P.B., Patriarch of Cilicia of Armenians, head of the Synod of the Armenian Catholic Church
His Beatitude Sviatoslav Shevchuk, Major Archbishop of Kyiv-Halyc, Kyiv, head of the Synod of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church
Bishop Teodor Martynyuk, M.S.U., Titular Bishop of Mopta, auxiliary bishop of Ternopil-Zboriv
Monsignor Bohdan Dzyurakh, C.SS.R., Apostolic Exarch of Germany and Scandinavia, Titular Bishop of Vagada
Cardinal George Alencherry, Major Archbishop of Ernakulam-Angamaly, head of the Synod of the Syro-Malabar Church
Metropolitan Archbishop Andrews Thazhath of Trichur, president of the Catholic bishops’ conference of India
Archbishop Joseph Pamplany of Tellicherry, India
His Beatitude Cardinal Baselios Cleemis Thottunkal, head of the Synod of the Syro-Malankara Church
Bishop Cristian Dumitru Crişan, Titular Bishop of Abula, Auxiliary Bishop of Fagaras Si Alba Iulia Dei Romanians
Cardinal Berhaneyesus Demerew Souraphiel, Metropolitan Archbishop of Addis Abeba, president of the Ethiopian and Eritrean bishops’ conference, president of the Council of the Ethiopian Church
Metropolitan Archbishop William Charles Skurla of the Byzantine Archeparchy of Pittsburgh, president of the Council of the Ruthenian Church
Bishop Milan Lach, S.J., auxiliary bishop of Bratislava, Slovakia
Metropolitan Archbishop Menghesteab Tesfamariam of Asmara, president of the Council of the Eritrean Church
Metropolitan Archbishop Fülöp Kocsis of Hajdúdorog for the Byzantine Catholics, president of the Council of the Hungarian Church
Episcopal Conferences
Africa
Northern Africa (CERNA)
Cardinal Cristóbal López Romero, S.D.B., Archbishop of Rabat, Morocco
Angola and Sao Tome
Bishop Joaquim Nhanganga Tyombe of of Uíje, Angola
Benin
Archbishop Coffi Roger Anoumou, Bishop of Lokossa
Botswana, South Africa, and Eswatini
Archbishop Anton Dabula Mpako, Archbishop of Pretoria, Military Ordinary of South Africa
Burkina Faso and Niger
Archbishop Gabriel Sayaogo of Koupéla, Burkina Faso
Burundi
Archbishop Georges Bizimana, Bishop of Ngozi
Cameroon
Archbishop Emmanuel Dassi Youfang of Bafia
Bishop Philippe Alain Mbarga, of Ebolowa
Chad
Bishop Nicolas Nadji Bab of Laï
Republic of Congo
Bishop Ildevert Mathurin Mouanga of Kinkala
Democratic Republic of Congo
Archbishop Marcel Utembi Tapa of Kisangani
Bishop Pierre-Célestin Tshitoko Mamba of Luebo
Côte D’ivoire (Ivory Coast)
Archbishop Marcellin Kouadio Yao of Daloa
Ethiopia
Archbishop Markos Ghebremedhin, C.M., Apostolic Vicar of Jimma-Bonga, Titular Bishop of Gummi of Proconsulari
Gabon
Archbishop Jean-Patrick Iba-Ba of Libreville
Gambia and Sierra Leone
Archbishop Edward Tamba Charles of Freetown, Sierra Leone
Ghana
Bishop Emmanuel Kofi Fianu, S.V.D., of Ho
Archbishop Gabriel Charles Palmer-Buckle of Cape Coast
Guinea
Archbishop Vincent Coulibaly, of Conarkry
Equatorial Guinea
Bishop Juan Domingo-Beka Esono Ayang, C.M.F., of Mongomo, president of the Episcopal Conference
Kenya
Archbishop Martin Kivuva Musonde of Mombasa, president of the Episcopal Conference
Archbishop Anthony Muheria of Nyeri
Lesotho
Bishop John Joale Tlhomola, S.C.P., of Mohale’s Hoek
Liberia
Bishop Anthony Fallah Borwah of Gbarnga
Madagascar
Auxiliary Bishop Jean Pascal Andriantsoavina of Antananavarivo, Titular Bishop of Zallata
Malawi
Archbishop George Desmond Tambala, O.C.D., of Lilongwe, Apostolic Administrator of Zomba
Mali
Bishop Hassa Florent Koné of San
Mozambique
Archbishop Inácio Saure, I.M.C., of Nampula
Namibia
Archbishop Liborius Ndumbukuti Nashenda, O.M.I., of Windhoek
Nigeria
Bishop Donatus Aihmiosion Ogun, O.S.A., of Uromi
Archbishop Ignatius Ayau Kaigama of Abuja
Archbishop Lucius Iwejuru Ugorji of Owerri
Indian Ocean (CEDOI)
Bishop Alain Harel of Port Victoria
Central African Republic
Bishop Nestor-Désiré Nongo-Aziagbia, S.M.A., of Bossangoa
Rwanda
Bishop Edouard Sinayobye of Cyangugu
Senegal, Mauritania, Cape Verde, and Guinea-Bissau
Bishop Ildo Augusto Dos Santos Lopes Fortes of Mindelo, Cape Verde
Sudan
Archbishop Stephen Ameyu Martin Mulla of Juba, South Sudan
Tanzania
Archbishop Jude Thaddaeus Ruwa’ichi, O.F.M. Cap., of Dar-Es-Salaam
Bishop Flavian Kassala of Geita
Togo
Bishop Dominique Banlène Guigbile of Dapaong
Uganda
Bishop Sanctus Lino Wanok of Lira
Zambia
Archbishop Ignatius Chama of Kasama
Zimbabwe
Bishop Raphael Macebo Mabuza Ncube of Hwange
Americas
Antilles
Archbishop Charles Jason Gordon of Porto of Spain
Argentina
Bishop Óscar Vicente Ojea of San Isidro
Archbishop Marcelo Daniel Colombo of Mendoza
Archbishop Carlos Alfonso Azpiroz Costa, O.P. of Bahía Blanca
Bolivia
Bishop Pedro Luis Fuentes Valencia, C.P., of La Paz, Titular Bishop of Temuniana
Brazil
Archbishop Emeritus Geraldo Lyrio Rocha of Mariana
Bishop Joel Portella Amado of São Sebastião do Rio De Janeiro, Titular Bishop of Carmeiano
Bishop Pedro Carlos Cipollini of Santo André
Archbishop Leonardo Ulrich Steiner, O.F.M., of Manaus
Bishop Dirceu De Oliveira Medeiros of Camaçari
Canada
Bishop Marc Pelchat of Québec, Titular Bishop of Lambesi
Bishop Raymond Poisson of Saint-Jérôme-Mont-Laurier
Archbishop John Michael Miller, C.S.B., of Vancouver
Bishop William Terrence Mcgrattan of Calgary
Chile
Archbishop Luis Fernando Ramos Pérez of Puerto Montt
Bishop Carlos Alberto Godoy Labraña of Santiago de Chile, Titular Bishop of Pudenziana
Colombia
Archbishop Luis José Rueda Aparicio of Bogotá
Archbishop Ricardo Antonio Tobón Restrepo of Medellín
Archbishop José Miguel Gómez Rodríguez of Manizales
Costa Rica
Bishop Javier Gerardo Román Arias of Limón
Cuba
Bishop Marcos Pirán of Holguín, Titular Bishop of Boseta
Ecuador
Archbishop Luis Gerardo Cabrera Herrera, O.F.M., of Guayaquil
Bishop David Israel De La Torre Altamirano, Ss.Cc., of Quito, Titular Bishop of Bagai
El Salvador
Bishop William Ernesto Iraheta Rivera of Santiago De María
Guatemala
Bishop Juan Manuel Cuá Ajacúm of Los Altos, Titular Bishop of Rosella
Haiti
Archbishop Launay Saturné of Cap-Haïtie, president of the Episcopal Conference
Honduras
Archbishop José Vicente Nácher Tatay, C.M., of Tegucigalpa
Mexico
Bishop Gerardo Díaz Vázquez of Tacámbaro
Bishop Oscar Efraín Tamez Villarreal of Ciudad Victoria
Archbishop Faustino Armendáriz Jiménez of Durango
Bishop Adolfo Miguel Castaño Fonseca of Azcapotzalco
Nicaragua
Bishop Sócrates René Sándigo Jirón of León
Panama
Bishop Edgardo Cedeño Muñoz, S.V.D. of Penonomé
Paraguay
Bishop Miguel Ángel Cabello Almada of Concepción En Paraguay
Peru
Archbishop Héctor Miguel Cabrejos Vidarte, O.F.M., of Trujillo
Bishop Edinson Edgardo Farfán Córdova, O.S.A., Bishop Prelate of Chuquibambilla
Cardinal Archbishop Pedro Ricardo Barreto Jimeno, S.J., of Huancayo
Puerto Rico
Bishop Rubén Antonio González Medina, C.M.F., of Ponce
Dominican Republic
Bishop Ramón Alfredo De La Cruz Baldera of San Francisco De Macorís
United States of America
Bishop Timothy Broglio, Military Ordinary of the United States of America
Bishop Daniel Ernest Flores of Brownsville, Texas
Bishop Robert Emmet Barron of Winona-Rochester, Minnesota
Bishop Kevin Carl Rhoades of Fort Wayne-South Bend, Indiana
Cardinal Timothy Michael Dolan, Archbishop of New York
Uruguay
Bishop Milton Luis Tróccoli Cebedio of Maldonado-Punta Del Este-Minas
Venezuela
Bishop Juan Carlos Bravo Salazar of Petare
Archbishop José Luis Azuaje Ayala of Maracaibo
Asia
Central Asia
Cardinal Giorgio Marengo, I.M.C., Apostolic Prefect of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
Bangladesh
Archbishop Bejoy Nicephorus D’cruze, O.M.I., of Dhaka
China (Chinese Regional Bishops’ Conference)
Bishop Norbert Pu of Kiayi, Taiwan
Korea
Archbishop Peter Chung Soon-Taick, O.C.D., of Seoul
Philippines
Bishop Pablo Virgilio S. David of Kalookan
Cardinal Archbishop Jose F. Advincula of Manila
Bishop Mylo Hubert C. Vergara of Pasig
Japan
Archbishop Tarcisio Isao Kikuchi, S.V.D., of Tokyo
India (CCBI)
Cardinal Filipe Neri António Sebastião Do Rosário Ferrão, Archbishop of Goa and Damão
Archbishop George Antonysamy of Madras and Mylapore
Bishop Alex Joseph Vadakumthala of Kannur
Cardinal Anthony Poola, Archbishop of Hyderabad
Indonesia
Bishop Antonius Subianto Bunjamin, O.S.C., of Bandung
Bishop Adrianus Sunarko, O.F.M., of Pangkalpinang
Iran
Archbishop Dominique Mathieu, O.F.M. Conv., of Tehran-Ispahan of the Latins
Laos and Cambodia
Father Enrique Figaredo Alvargonzalez, S.J., Apostolic Prefect of Battambang, Cambodia
Malaysia-Singapore-Brunei
Cardinal William Seng Chye Goh, Archbishop of Singapore
Myanmar
Bishop John Saw Yaw Han of Kengtung
Arab countries
Monsignor Paolo Martinelli, O.F.M. Cap., Apostolic Vicar of South Arabia
Pakistan
Monsignor Khalid Rehmat, O.F.M. Cap., Apostolic Vicar of Quetta
Sri Lanka
Bishop Raymond Kingsley Wickramasinghe of Galle
Thailand
Cardinal Francis Xavier Kriengsak Kovithavanij, Archbishop of Bangkok
East Timor
Cardinal Virgilio Do Carmo Da Silva, S.D.B., Archbishop of Díli
Vietnam
Bishop Joseph Đo Manh Hùng of Phan Thiêt
Bishop Louis Nguyên Anh Tuán of Hà Tinh
Europe
Albania
Archbishop Arjan Dodaj, F.D.C., of Tiranë-Durrës
Austria
Archbishop Franz Lackner, O.F.M., of Salzburg
Belgium
Bishop Koenraad Vanhoutte of Mechelen-Brussels, Titular Bishop of Tagora
Belarus
Bishop Aliaksandr Yasheuski, S.D.B., of Minsk-Mohilev, Titular Bishop of Fornos Major
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bishop Marko Semren, O.F.M., of Banja Luka, Titular Bishop of Abaradira
Bulgaria
Bishop Strahil Veselinov Kavalenov of Nicopolis
The Czech Republic
Bishop Zdenek Wasserbauer of Praha, Titular Bishop of Butrint
International Episcopal Conference of Sts. Cyril and Methodius
Archbishop Ladislav Nemet, S.V.D., of Beograd, Serbia, president of the Episcopal Conference
Croatia
Bishop Ivan Ćurić, Auxiliary of Ðakovo-Osijek, Titular Bishop of Tela
Russian Federation
Archbishop Paolo Pezzi, F.S.C.B., of Mother of God in Moscow
France
Bishop Alexandre Joly of Troyes
Bishop Jean-Marc Eychenne of Grenoble-Vienne
Bishop Matthieu Rougé of Nanterre
Bishop Benoît Bertrand of Mende
Germany
Bishop Georg Bätzing of Limburg
Bishop Bertram Johannes Meier of Augsburg
Bishop Franz-Josef Overbeck of Essen, Military Ordinary for the Federal Republic of Germany
Great Britain (England & Wales)
Archbishop John Wilson of Southwark
Bishop Marcus Stock of Leeds
Great Britain (Scotland)
Bishop Brian Mcgee of Argyll and the Isles
Greece
Archbishop Georgios Altouvas of Corfu, Zakynthos, and Kefalonia
Ireland
Bishop Brendan Leahy of Limerick
Bishop Alexander Aloysius McGuckian, S.J., of Raphoe
Italy
Archbishop Roberto Repole of Turin, Bishop of Susa
Bishop Franco Giulio Brambilla of Novara
Archbishop Bruno Forte of Chieti-Vasto
Archbishop Domenico Battaglia of Naples
Archbishop Mario Enrico Delpini of Milan
Latvia
Archbishop Zbigņev Stankevičs of Riga
Lithuania
Bishop Algirdas Jurevičius of Telšiai
Malta
Archbishop Charles Jude Scicluna of Malta
Netherlands
Bishop Theodorus Cornelis Maria Hoogenboom of Utrecht, Titular Bishop of Bistue
Poland
Archbishop Stanisław Gądecki of Poznań
Archbishop Adrian Józef Galbas, S.A.C., Coadjutor Archbishop of Katowice
Archbishop Marek Jędraszewski of Kraków
Portugal
Bishop Virgílio do Nascimento Antunes of Coimbra
Bishop José Ornelas Carvalho, S.C.I., of Leiria-Fátima
Romania
Archbishop Gergely Kovács of Alba Iulia, Apostolic Administrator, Ad Nutum Sanctæ Sedis of the Ordinariate for Catholics of the Armenian Rite residing in Romania
Scandinavia
Bishop Czeslaw Kozon of København, Denmark
Slovakia
Bishop Marek Forgáč of Košice, Titular Bishop of Seleuciana
Slovenia
Bishop Maksimilijan Matjaž of Celje
Spain
Archbishop Vicente Jiménez Zamora, Archbishop Emeritus of Zaragoza
Archbishop Luis Javier Argüello García of Valladolid
Bishop Francisco Simón Conesa Ferrer of Solsona
Switzerland
Bishop Felix Gmür of Basel
Turkey
Bishop Massimiliano Palinuro, Apostolic Vicar of Istanbul, Apostolic Administrator Vacant See of the Apostolic Exarchate of Istanbul
Ukraine
Bishop Oleksandr Yazlovetskiy of Kyiv-Zhytomyr, Titular Bishop of Tulana
Hungary
Bishop Gábor Mohos Mohos of Esztergom-Budapest, Titular Bishop of Iliturgi
Oceania
Australia
Archbishop Patrick Michael O’Regan of Adelaide
Bishop Shane Anthony Mackinlay of Sandhurst
New Zealand
Archbishop Paul Gerard Martin, S.M., Coadjutor of Wellington
Pacific
Bishop Paul Patrick Donoghue, S.M., of Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands
Bishop Dariusz Piotr Kałuża, M.S.F., of Bougainville
Bishops Without an Episcopal Conference
Europe
Archbishop Selim Jean Sfeir of Cyprus of the Maronites
Presidents of International Meetings of Episcopal Conferences
Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa And Madagascar (SECAM)
Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo Besungu, O.F.M. Cap.
Federation of Asian Bishops’ Conferences (FABC)
Cardinal Charles Maung Bo, S.D.B.
Federation of Catholic Bishops’ Conferences of Oceania (FCBCO)
Bishop Antony Randazzo
Council of Bishops’ Conferences of Europe (CCEE)
Bishop Gintaras Grušas
Latin American Bishops’ Council (CELAM)
Bishop Jaime Spengler, O.F.M.
The Union of Superiors General and the International Union of Superiors General
Sister Nadia Coppa, A.S.C., president of the International Union of Superiors General (UISG)
Sister Elizabeth Mary Davis, R.S.M.
Brother Mark Hilton, S.C., Superior General of the Brothers of the Sacred Heart
Sister Elysée Izerimana, Op. S.D.N., General Councilor of the Working Sisters of the Holy House of Nazareth
Abbot Mauro-Giuseppe Lepori, O. Cist., Abbot General of the Cistercian Order
Sister Patricia Murray, I.B.V.M., executive secretary of the International Union of Superiors General (UISG)
Sister Maria Nirmalini, A.C., Superior General of the Sisters of the Apostolic Carmelite Order
Brother Ernesto Sánchez, F.M.S., Superior General of the Marist Brothers
Father Arturo Sosa, S.I., Superior General of the Society of Jesus
Father Gebresilasie Tadesse Tesfaye, M.C.C.J., Superior General of the Comboni Missionaries of the Heart of Jesus
Heads of Dicasteries of the Roman Curia
Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Secretary of State
Archbishop Edgar Peña Parra, Sostituto for the Secretariat of State
Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher, Secretary for the Relations with States
Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization
Archbishop Salvatore Fisichella, Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization
Archbishop Víctor Manuel Fernández, future Prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith
Cardinal Konrad Krajewski, papal almoner, Prefect of the Dicastery for the Service of Charity
Archbishop Claudio Gugerotti, Prefect of the Dicastery for the Eastern Churches
Cardinal Arthur Roche, Prefect for the Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments
Cardinal Miguel Ángel Ayuso Guixot, M.C.C.J., Prefect of the Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue
Archbishop Robert Francis Prevost, O.S.A., Prefect of the Dicastery for Bishops
Cardinal Lazarus You Heung-Sik, Prefect of the Dicastery for the Clergy
Cardinal João Braz De Aviz, Prefect of the Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life And Societies of Apostolic Life
Cardinal Kevin Joseph Farrell, Prefect of the Dicastery for the Laity, Family And Life
Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, Prefect of the Dicastery of the Causes of Saints
Cardinal Kurt Koch, Prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity.
Cardinal José Tolentino De Mendonça, Prefect of the Dicastery for Culture And Education
Cardinal Michael Czerny, S.J., Prefect of the Dicastery for the Service of Integral Human Development
Archbishop Filippo Iannone, O. Carm., Prefect of the Dicastery for Legislative Texts
Paolo Ruffini, Prefect of the Dicastery for Communication
Members Nominated by Pope Francis
Cardinal Carlos Aguiar Retes, Archbishop of Mexico City, Mexico
Bishop Juan Ignacio Arrieta Ochoa De Chinchetru, Secretary of the Dicastery for Legislative Texts, Vatican City
Cardinal Jeans-Marc Aveline, Archbishop of Marseille, France
Archbishop Ignace Bessi Dogbo, Archbishop of Korhogo, Ivory Coast
Father Giuseppe Bonfrate, Italy
Bishop Dante Gustavo Braida, Bishop of La Rioja, Argentina
Archbishop Erio Castellucci, Archbishop of Modena-Nantola-Carpi, Italy
Bishop Stephen Chow Sau-Yan of Hong Kong, China
Archbishop Timothy Costelloe, S.D.B., Archbishop of Perth, Australia
Cardinal Blase Cupich, Archbishop of Chicago, USA
Cardinal Jozef De Kesel, Archbishop Emeritus of Mechelen-Brussels, Belgium
Bishop Lizardo Estrada Herrera, O.S.A., Auxiliary Bishop of Cuzco, Peru, Titular
Bishop of Ausuccura, Secretary General of the Latin American bishops’ conference (CELAM)
Archbishop Paul Dennis Etienne, Archbishop of Seattle, USA
Cardinal Juan De La Caridad García Rodríguez, Archbishop of San Cristóbal de La Habana, Cuba
Bishop Felix Genn, Bishop of Münster, Germany
Cardinal Wilton Gregory, Archbishop of Washington, D.C., USA
Cardinal Jeans-Claude Hollerich, S.I., Relator General of the Synod on Synodality, Archbishop of Luxembourg
Bishop Nicholas Gilbert Hudson, Auxiliary Bishop of Westminster, Great Britain
Archbishop Dražen Kutleša, Archbishop of Zagreb, Croatia
Cardinal Luis Francisco Ladaria Ferrer, S.J., Prefect Emeritus of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, Vatican City
Cardinal Robert Walter McElroy, Bishop of San Diego, USA
Bishop Marco Mellino, Secretary of the Council of Cardinals, Vatican City
Bishop Gjergj Meta, Bishop of Rrëshen, Albania
Bishop Lucius Andrew Muandula, Bishop of Xai-Xai, Mozambique
Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller, Prefect Emeritus of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Vatican City
Bishop Antonello Mura, Bishop of Nuoro, Italy
Archbishop Robert Christopher Ndlovu, Archbishop of Harare, Apostolic Administrator of Masvingo, Zimbabwe
Bishop Manuel Nin, O.S.B., Apostolic Exarch for Byzantine Rite Catholics in Greece, Titular Bishop of Carcabia, Greece
Cardinal Seán Patrick O’malley, O.F.M. Cap., Archbishop of Boston, USA
Bishop Stefan Oster, S.D.B., Bishop of Passau, Germany
Cardinal Marc Ouellet, P.S.S., Prefect Emeritus of the Dicastery for Bishops, Vatican City
Bishop Joseph-Csaba Pál, Bishop of Timişoara, Romania
Cardinal Oscar Andres Rodriguez Maradiaga, S.D.B., Archivist Emeritus of Tegucicalpa, Honduras
Archbishop Angel S. Rossi, S.J., Archbishop of Córdoba, Argentina
Archbishop Grzegorz Ryś, Archbishop of Lodz, Polonia
Archbishop Joseph Spiteri, Apostolic Nuncio to Mexico, Mexico
Bishop Radoslaw Zmitrowicz, O.M.I., Auxiliary Bishop of Kamyanets-Podilskyi, Ukraine
Enrique Alarcón García, president of the Christian Fraternity of People with Disabilities of Spain, Spagna
Father Riccardo Battocchio, Rector of the Almo Collegio Capranica in Rome, President of the Italian Theological Association, Italy
Sister Simona Brambilla, Superior General of the Consolata Missionaries, Italy
Father Luis Miguel Castillo Gualda, Rector of the Basilica of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, Valencia, Spain
Father Giacomo Costa, S.J., president of the San Fedele Cultural Foundation of Milan; National Spiritual Companion of the Italian Christian Workers’ Associations, A.C.L.I., Italy
Cristina Inogés Sanz, Theologian, Spain
Father James Martin, S.J., USA
Sister Maria De Los Dolores Palencia, C.S.J.
Sister Samuela Maria Rigon, S.S.M., Superior General of the Sisters of Our Lady of Sorrows, Italy
Father Elias Royón, Vicar for Consecrated Life of the Archdiocese of Madrid, Spain
Father Antonio Spadaro, S.J., director of La Civiltà Cattolica, Italy
Sister Xiskya Lucia Valladares, Nicaragua, co-founder of Imisión, director of the Communication Department of the Centro De Enseñanza Superior Alberta Giménez (CESAG), Comillas Pontifical University
Sister María De Fátima Vieira Diniz, S.Smo.S., Superior General of the Servants of the Blessed Sacrament, Venezuela
From the Continental Assemblies (also selected by Pope Francis)
Africa
Father Vitalis Chinedu Anaehobi
Father Michel Jean-Paul Guillaud
Sister Ester Maria Lucas, F.C.
Sister Josée Ngalula, R.S.A.
Norha Kofognotera Nonterah
Father Agbonkhianmeghe Emmanuel Orobator, S.I.
Sheila Leocádia Pires
Sister Marie Solange Randrianirin, F.S.P.
Sister Solange Sahon Sia, N.D.C.
Father Rafael Simbine Junior
North America
Sami Aoun
Cynthia Bailey Manns
Catherine Clifford
Richard Coll
Chantal Desmarais
Father Ivan Montelongo
Wyatt Olivas
Julia Osęka
Sister Leticia Salazar
Linda Staudt
Latin America
Erika Sally Aldunate Loza
Jesus Alberto Briceño Cherubini
Sister Rosmery Castañeda Montoya
José Manuel De Urquidi Gonzalez
María Cristina Dos Anjos Da Conceição
Sister Gloria Liliana Franco Echeverri, O.D.N.
Sônia Gomes De Oliveira
Father Francisco Gerardo Hernández Rojas
Valeria Karina López
Néstor Esaú Velásquez Téllez
Asia
Vanessa Cheng Siu Wai
Rosalia Minus Cho Cho Tin
Father Joel Casimiro Da Costa Pinto, O.F.M.
Father Clarence Devadass
Father William La Rousse, M.M.
Father Momoko Nishimura, S.E.M.D.
Estela Padilla
Anna Teresa Peter Amandus
Sister Lalitha Thomas, S.J.T.
Father Vimal Tirimanna
Eastern Churches and the Middle East
Adel Abolouh
Father Khalil Alwan, M.L.
Saad Antti
Sister Houda Fadoul
Sister Caroline Jarjis
Rita Kouroumilian
Caroline Rafaat Awd Narouz
Claire Said
Lina Taschmann
Matthew Thomas
Europe
Aleksander Banka
Geert De Cubber
Giuseppina De Simone
Sister Anne Ferrand
Helena Jeppesen-Spuhler
Sister Anna Mirijam Kaschner, C.P.S.
Father Jan Nowotnik
Oksana Pimenova
Father Luis Manuel Romero Sanchez
Maria Sabov
Oceania
Manuel Beazley
Trudy Dantis
Renée Köhler-Ryan
John Lochowiak
Father Denis Nacorda
Kelly Paget
Sister Mary Angela Perez, R.S.M.
Father Sijeesh Pullenkunnel
Susan Sela
Grace Wrackia
Under-Secretaries of the General Secretariat of the Synod
Bishop Luis Marín De San Martín, O.S.A., Titular Bishop of Suliana
Sister Nathalie Becquart, X.M.C.J.
Members of the Ordinary Council
Cardinal Charles Maung Bo, S.D.B., Archbishop of Yangon, Myanmar
Bishop Jaime Calderón Calderón of f Tapachula, Mexico
Cardinal Joseph Coutts, Archbishop of Karachi, Pakistan
Archbishop Anthony Colin Fisher, O.P., of Sydney, Australia
Archbishop Andrew Nkea Fuanya of Bamenda, Cameroon
Cardinal Oswald Gracias, Archbishop of Bombay, India
Cardinal Gérald Cyprien Lacroix, I.S.P.X., Archbishop of Québec, Canada
Archbishop Gabriel Mbilingi, C.S.Sp., of Lubango, Angola
Cardinal Dieudonné Nzapalainga, C.S.Sp., Archbishop of Bangui, Central African Republic
Cardinal Juan José Omella Omella, Archbishop of Barcelona, Spain
Cardinal Sérgio Da Rocha, Metropolitan Archbishop of São Salvador Da Bahia, Brazil
Cardinal Christoph Schönborn, O.P., Archbishop of Wien, Austria, president of the Episcopal Conference of Austria
Cardinal Daniel Fernando Sturla Berhouet, S.D.B., Archbishop of Montevideo, Uruguay
Cardinal Joseph William Tobin, C.Ss.R., Archbishop of Newark, USA
His Beatitude Ignace Youssef Iii Younan, Syrian Patriarch of Antioch, head of the Synod of the Syrian Catholic Church, Lebanon
Cardinal Matteo Maria Zuppi, Archbishop of Bologna, Italy
Special Guests
Father Alois, Prior of the Taizé Community, France
Luca Casarini, Mediterranea Saving Humans, Italy
Monsignor Severino Dianich, theologian, Italy
Eva Fernández Mateo, Catholic Action
Margaret Karram, Work of Mary-Focolare Movement
Father Hervé Legrand, O.P., theologian, France
Monsignor Armando Matteo, secretary of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, Vatican City
Father Thomas Schwartz, Germany
Other Participants
Spiritual Assistants
Father Timothy Peter Joseph Radcliffe, O.P., Oxford Monastery, Great Britain
Mother Maria Ignazia Angelini, O.S.B., Monastery of Viboldone, Italy
Referent for the Liturgy
Father Matteo Ferrari, O.S.B. Cam., Della Comunità Di Camaldoli
Experts and Facilitators
Father Dario Vitali, Italy, Coordinator of Theological Experts
Wissam Abdo, Lebanon
Father Adelson Araújo Dos Santos, S.I., Brazil
Father Paul Béré, S.J., Burkina Faso
Sister María Luisa Berzosa González, F.I., Spain
Monsignor Philippe Bordeyne, France
Monsignor Alphonse Borras, Belgium
Father Andrea Bozzolo, S.D.B., Italy
Father Pedro Manuel Brassesco, Argentina
Father Agenor Brighenti, Brazil
loy Bueno De La Fuente, Spain
Monsignor Valentino Bulgarelli, Italy
Father Juan Jorge Bytton Arellano, S.J., Peru
Sister Daniela Adriana Cannavina, C.M.R., Colombia
Sister María Suyapa Cacho Álvarez, Honduras
Father Carlo Casalone, S.J., Italy
Sandra Chaoul, Lebanon
Sister Maria Cimperman, R.S.C.J., USA
Monsignor Piero Coda, Italy
Professor Eamon Conway, Ireland
Sandie Cornish, Australia
Father Ian Cribb, S.J., Australia
Professor Klára Antonia Csiszár, Romania
Father Hyacinthe Destivelle, O.P., France
Sister Anne Béatrice Faye, C.I.C., Ivory Coast
Paolo Foglizzo, Italy
Father Carlos Maria Galli, Argentina
Iris Gonzales, Dominican Republic
Father Gaby Alfred Hachem, Lebanon
Sister Philomena Shizue Hirota, M.M.B., Japan
Austen Ivereigh, Great Britain
Claire Jonard, Belgium
Sister Jolanta Maria Kafka, R.M.I., Poland
Christina Kheng, Singapore
Leonardo Lima Gorosito, Uruguay
Mauricio Lopez Oropeza, Ecuador
Sister Laurence Loubières, X.M.C.J., Canada
Professor Rafael Luciani, Venezuela
Father Anthony Makunde, Tanzania
Father Miguel Martin, S.J., Brazil
Father David Mc Callum, S.J., USA
Father Vito Mignozzi, Italy
Sister Paola Nelemta Ngarndiguimal, S.P.C., Chad
Susan Pascoe, Australia
Father Asaeli Raass, S.V.D., Fiji Islands
Sister Yvonne Reungoat, F.M.A., France
Father Gilles Routhier, Canada
Anna Rowlands, Great Britain
Father Ormond Rush, Australia
Father José San Jose Prisco, Spain
Monsignor Pierangelo Sequeri, Italy
Thomas Söding, Germany
Sister Nicoletta Vittoria Spezzati, A.S.C., Italy
Father Christoph Theobald, S.I., France
Erica Tossani, Italy
Monsignor Juan Fernando Usma Gómez, Colombia
Myriam Wijlens, Holland
General Secretariat of the Synod
Father Justo Ariel Beramendi Orellana
Thierry Bonaventura, Communication Manager
Father Pasquale Bua
Pietro Camilli
Alfonso Salvatore Cauteruccio
Andrea Cimino
Karina Fujisawa Simonetti
Tanyja George, M. Id.
Father Ambrogio Ivan Samus
Noemi Sanches
Monsignor Tomasz Trafny
Federica Vivian
Paola Volterra Toppano
Pedro Paulo Oliveira Weizenmann
Sister Marie-Kolbe Zamora, O.S.F.
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Perhaps revelatory for Cardinal Marx is that there are inclusions within the Catechism that are indeed set in stone. Doctrine belonging to the Deposit of Faith, some of which are elicited directly from the Decalogue, others Natural Law, others revealed by Christ to the Apostles.
Pansexualism, Queerdom, is not a whatever sex you believe you are Realm, when biologically you’re otherwise. Unless you mutilate what God gave you in defiance to the Almighty’s ordering of nature. That disfigurement doesn’t change the truth. Pan or Trans is a deviation from the truth. A most adversarial Antichrist proposal. “The value of love is shown in the relationship; in not making the other person an object, in not using or humiliating the other person, in being faithful and dependable to each other. The Catechism is not set in stone. One may also doubt what it says” (Wayward Anthropological theorist Cardinal Marx). Happy smiling faces holding hands blissfully does not spell sanctity. Good feelings don’t distinguish good from evil. Rather, similar to reprobate Aaron [until Moses returned him to his moral senses, God intended to rightfully destroy him] the engraver of the Golden Calf and its high priest of worship. Idolatry. Satanic. An egregious affront to the divinity.
We’re facing a very similar serious dilemma that continues to infect Catholicism now being supported by the German Synodal Way and tacitly by the inaction [a word of disparagement now and then a quoting of scripture is equivalent to a wink and a nod] of the Roman Pontiff. Impossible? It’s occurring before our eyes. At least those of us who haven’t yet become blind.
Hello Father Peter. Cdl Marx is a Liar. I believe he is a gay marxist who wants to create schism, to protestantize our One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church. Em and I are in our mid-70’s and, with the time we have left, we will stay and fight for our Church. We will do our best to stop these evil-doers from winning. God Bless.
Another Luther from Germany ! Deceiving demons have got him. Sad. !
So the trads were right? Using the Cardinals’s logic, it seems we CAN question the teachings of Vatican 2 as described in Catechism. Cool. Thanks Cardinal Marx!
Of course, Marx doesn’t mean to be intellectually consistent. He only makes this argument because it serves his agenda. These guys get very clerical and demand obedience the minute you question them. The double standard is glaring. It really is hard to take them seriously anymore.
PS: notice the teachings that Marx and his ilk never question are the ones surrounding their power as a bishop?
I want to know, why do I have to listen to Marx if he himself can question and be disobedient to Church teaching?
A perfect observation!
We read: “Sure, there are people who want to see sexuality limited to procreation…”
The cardinal babbles (as in Babel) from a FALSE PREMISE. Fully human (and therefore Catholic) morality already affirms both the procreational and the truly unitive aspects of sexual intercourse. Out of step are contradictory (!) actions (not predispositions) that preclude procreation altogether.
The cardinal, apparently incapable and unwilling to entertain more than one idea or fact at a time, humiliates such integral truth and relational richness. And elementary logic. He would bury these truths in order to embed his deluded fantasy into the Mystical Body of Christ.
ST. AUGUSTINE had an expression for this—”fantastica fornicatio” (the prostitution of the mind to its own fancies). And barely yesterday, ST. JOHN PAUL II said it this way: “As Teacher, she [the Church] never tires of proclaiming the moral norm…. The Church is no way the author or the arbiter of this norm” (Veritatis Splendor, , n.95). Butt, bring it on, says MARX, homosexual tunnel vision, with superficial editing of the Catechism as his end game, so to speak!
And then, from a broadened perspective, we have this:
“Late marriages and small families became the rule, and men satisfied their sexual instincts by homosexuality [!] or by relations with slaves and prostitutes. This aversion to marriage [easily redefined!] and the deliberate restriction of the family by the practice of infanticide and abortion was undoubtedly the main cause of the decline of ancient Greece, as Polybius pointed out in the second century B.C. And the same factors were equally powerful in the society of the Empire….[and now today].” (Christopher Dawson, “The Patriarchal Family in History,” The Dynamics of World History, 1962, p. 163).
Simply unbelievable.
Marx eliminates the unitive aspect of the sexual act in marriage…on purpose. What better way to promote a biological sexuality only and to throw Christianity under the bus.
Depends on what he means by “set in stone.” If he means that there might be human errors in the text that need correcting, of course; that is a problem with any human effort. If he means that certain applications of doctrine can change over time to adapt to new conditions, that is also a given. As Pope Benedict XV reminded us back in 1914, we must be prepared to do “old things in new ways.” If he means that doctrine can change, he is mistaken.
Granted the homosexually inclined [in all its forms] require our care. That is, spiritual care that is Christocentric. Therein is the faith issue that’s leading both homosexual and priest or bishop who follow Cardinal Marx’s accommodation of a disorder rather than spiritual healing centered on Christ, the perennial doctrines of Catholic Christianity on the path to perdition.
If we truly loved the sexually disordered person, we would restore them to Christ. Cardinals Marx, Hummes, Farrell, Cupich, Grech, Hollerich et al prelates closely attached to Francis, practice a nominal Catholicism that is largely secular in practice, at least on this major issue. Most, true to that predilection are most often not strong antiabortion advocates.
Secular in outlook and diluted in their faith, presumed efficacious scientific studies, the growing practice worldwide, they find in this greater conviction than what is revealed in our Apostolic tradition.
As for the “presumed efficacious scientific studies,” what say the synodal waywards about the demonstrated absence of any homosexual gene? In the human genome only a “few” markers of little consequence: https://news.yahoo.com/no-gay-gene-study-finds-180220669.html
From the news release: Five of the genetic markers were “significantly” associated with same-sex behavior, the researchers said, but even these are far from being predictive [!] of a person’s sexual preferences. “We scanned the entire human genome and found a handful – five to be precise – of locations that are clearly associated with whether a person reports in engaging in same-sex sexual behavior,” said Andrea Ganna, a biologist at the Institute of Molecular Medicine in Finland who co-led the research.
He said these have “a very small effect” [!] and, combined, explain “considerably less than 1% of the variance in the self-reported same-sex sexual behavior” [!]. This means that non-genetic factors – such as environment, upbringing [alienation from the father?], personality, nurture [early sexual experimentation?] – are far more significant in influencing a person’s choice [!] of sexual partner, just as with most other personality, behavioral and physical human traits, the researchers said.
But as the other Marx’s marionettes said of countervailing evidence against economic determinism, “we will decide this matter politically.”
Indeed Mr. Beaulieu. The so called gay gene issue is ultimately moot because you don’t need gay genetics to have gay sex. All modern society’s internet, social media and political explosion of focus on the subject has accomplished is to greatly expand bi-sexual behavior. Gay sex, although it can sometimes be sincere emotionally, is not sexual intercourse. It is mutual masturbation. You need a gene for that?
Neither is another body needed for that.
Yep. Wait for an “M” to be added to LGBTQI+.
Good research. And has Andrea Ganna made a comparative study of similar minute patterns of other genes in persons and their correspondence to behavior?
Not “other genes,” but here, mere “markers.” As for related research on addictions, there’s this…
Even a relatively innocuous modern addiction—-overindulgence in digital and virtual reality games—-is found to produce corresponding neuro-chemical and possibly cellular changes in the brain itself, e.g., dopamine which is responsible for reward-driven behavior. The computer programs program us!
Also, a recent study completed at University College London (using MRI technology) also strongly implies that a habit of lying tends to suppress the part of the brain (the amygdala) that responds emotionally to a “slippery slope” pattern of small and then larger lies (Garrett/Ariely/ Laxxaro, Nature Neuroscience Journal, October 24, 2016; reported by Erica Goode, New York Times, October 25, 2016).
Lies escalate and the Father of Lies lies at the beginning, so to speak. The German synodal wayward is a prime example.
Peter, I’ve thought, theoretically that our freely willed thought patterns, intentions may effect chemical change, imbalance especially if such are disordered. That the imbalance at times is engendered. German psychiatry prior to WWII initiated treating psychiatric patients with psychotropic medicine that beneficially modified the chemical imbalance. Today as you’re aware the best treatment seems both counsel and medication.
Consequently, what we may find specific to forms of disordered behavior may be the result of the behavior not the cause.
I am quite sure Cardinal Marx and friends would also agree that a good Catholic can disbelieve the existence of Jesus and God, so long as their contributions to Church collections continued.
Its time to jettison the German “church” as represented by Marx. Aptly named, Marx and his allies, are clearly looking for revolution , for schism. Let them either commit to clear orthodoxy or excommunicate them. We don’t have the luxury of any more confusion! Pope Benedict’s statement about a smaller but more “pure” Church wasn’t just an observation it was normative. Marx’s German “church” will fit right in with Germany’s liberal Lutheranism in bleaching authentic Christianity right out of the Gernman culture!
Precisely…because for viceroy Bishops and Cardinals…Cash is King.
If you had ever had the experience of immersion in the theological academy as I did working for years in an Ivy League “trans-denominational” divinity school you would be confirmed in your determination. What we know to be the mysteries of the faith are nothing to these scholars than confections requiring analysis and deconstruction. That accomplished in their drunken state of self-deception the fruits of their labors are ready for publication. Publish or perish — that is the game. The theological academy is sadly a nest of vipers. The exceptions exist but are increasing difficult to find and, even worse, subject to suppression by calumny and professional disparagement. I will never forget a noted feminist theologian questioning, at a faculty meeting, if Catholics “do” theology.
Authentic Catholicism is held in utter contempt across the spectrum of faith communities. The likes of Marx, and they are legion, are often ironically small men subsumed in self-contempt desperate to be acknowledge credible by those who subsist in odium fide.
This Cardinal offered his resignation to Pope Francis some months ago. It seems the Pope is supportive of the new Luther
I hesitated to post this, since it will inevitably be perceived as the churlishness of the spiritually immature. Then, I thought, there’s really nothing for me to lose.
Beachhouse parties on the German riviera, the Kaiserbäder, and Swinemünde can be quite expensive.
According to Cardinal Marx, one can question the catechism.Especially in matters of sexuality. Because it appears that the Cardinal thinks the CHURCH has to conform to secular society and the current lack of morality there. God forbid anyone committing sin actually be told point blank that they ARE sinning ( Joe Biden anyone?) because that might hurt their feelings.Elimination of mean tweets, elimination of the possibility of ANYONE EVER having their feelings hurt, trumps all else in society. Even the total collapse of society itself. It is more important than even the fall of the Roman empire. Because all that serves the opinions of Cardinal Marx. Marxism. A variant of Marxism, much like this one , is already a proven failure. Lets not try that again. But, it may be too late. Behavioral standards of many kinds are dead. Hence the spectacle of one Hollywood star attacking another on live TV over a “joke”.
The thought processes of atheists are as predictable as water is damp, especially atheists without self-awareness that they effectively are atheists, the sort who believe it is possible for truth to change, since they do not believe truth is the immutable reflection of the unchanging perfect mind of God. Neither do they have sufficient wisdom to believe that God, were God to exist in theory, would not be such an idiot of a God that He would have sadistically forgot to inform the peoples of the past with the necessary innate truths to lead virtuous lives if their free wills aspired to basic decency or holiness.
Atheistic prelates are especially boring and predictable when they can perceive nothing demonic about capitulating to and keeping up with what Scripture uses as a metaphor for evil, “the ways of the world,” or to adopt the world’s slanders that the Church has no compassion or ever has had compassion for the weak. If a prelate has decided to abandon wisdom, can he at least be questioned to try to explain how it came to be that their mindset is such that greater than 98 percent of gays support abortion? When Catholics used to be Catholics, we understood that we delude ourselves about our sinful lives. We do this a lot. Every day.
The winged lions on Cardinal Marx’ coat of arms should be replaced by serpents.
And we, for our part, are free to doubt what “Cardinal” Marx says as well. It is important to remind ourselves that the red color in the vestments of the office of Cardinal is an outward sign that the individual holding that office is willing to die a martyr in witness to the Catholic faith.
I am not reading anything coming from this particular “cardinal” except his willingness to abandon the Catholic Faith for the p
selfish pleasure of sodomy.
Let us continue on our way to follow Christ to the summit of Calvary, and let this lost, dazed and confused bird go his way. As such, we likely shall not cross paths again. He has had his 15 minutes of fame. Give him no more.
In reading this article on Cld. Marx, somehow I thought of Arianism and how Arius would not give up on his heretical teaching. His pride was all encompassing. As a result, how God disposed of him was rather appropriate.
What is totally insane about all this is that there is a solution: leave! Go join like minded people.
If you no longer believe in what the church teaches then join that group that believes what you do. There are plenty such groups starting with the Anglicans and Lutherans.
These priests are just outright liars. Hypocrites. They go through the pretence of being Catholic when they no longer are because they don’t believe Catholic teaching. Atheists who pretend to believe in God.
But then I suppose that is the whole point – they want to corrupt and wreck the Church and they are almost there. Hating beauty they want to make the Church ugly. Abhoring virtue they want to celebrate sin. Where else could that come from but from the serpent himself.
I’d wager that while Cardinal Marx doesn’t regard the catechism as “set in stone,” his own views and those of his synodal colleagues are immovable, non-negotiable and binding on the rest of the peasants.
Who asked him anyway?
All of God’s words are set in stone. It’s really sad that Catholics almost never go to the bible to get their teaching and instruction, but rely on man’s catechism filled with man made traditions. Cardinal Marx is the Carl Marx of the Catholic faith.
Matthew 19:4-6 “Haven’t you read (apparently not!),” Jesus replied, that at the beginning the Creator made them male and female, and said, For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh? So they are no longer two, but one. Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate.”
Save your bigotry for another forum. Catholics use the book they created, the Bible, all the time, of which the entirety of our Catechism is based. Nothing in the Catechism is man-made as your religion hatred, perhaps unintentional but implicit nonetheless, would have it.
Reptilian rationalizations emerge reflexively from this pathetic individual and his confreres in the Teutonic episcopate. One is left to wonder what fuels his contempt for the faith and the faithful. What nails down his obstinacy in persevering in his office when, ultimately, Catholicism is nothing but a sociological entity serving some secular purpose in his self-deceit. What are the advantages to him to remain on the stage katholicism provides when there are multiple alternatives to him to stand in the limelight — or maybe in protestantism he would merely fade into the wallpaper.
There is nothing good to be said of this Marx or his allies in mendacity. He is a scandal. That he is provided the long leash says everything about the current state of the Church. Jerusalem sacked and burning.
I know a man who lived the “GB” portion of the LGBTQ lifestyle, and came out of the abyss of that, and now suffers the ravages of AIDS and other STDs. He says this of men like Eminence Marx: “It is insane for adults to teach others, including children, that it is OK for a man to inseminate the intestines of another man.”
We all know another man, some 2000 years ago, who sternly warned false shepherds about the judgement they will face: “It would be better for that man that he had never been born.”
It is “sobering” (to put it lightly) to acknowledge that the anti-Christ ideology and behavior of “Eminence” Marx and “Eminence” Hollerich and “Eminence” Cupich, etc etc, are all “players” and “Coordinators” are all at the service of the Pontiff Francis.
These men are false shepherds, and we must obey the command of Jesus and pray for them, because Jesus commanded that we are to “love our enemies, and pray for those who persecute you.”
Amen Lord, your word is Truth.
Indeed Mr. Beaulieu. The so called gay gene issue is ultimately moot because you don’t need gay genetics to have gay sex. All modern society’s internet, social media and political explosion of focus on the subject has accomplished is to greatly expand bi-sexual behavior. Gay sex, although it can sometimes be sincere emotionally, is not sexual intercourse. It is mutual masturbation. You need a gene for that?
A faithful and true shepherd, Bishop Robert Morlino, voices the truth, against the false gospel of “Cardinal-Coordinator” Marx (and company):
https://madisoncatholicherald.org/letter-scandal/
Something seems amiss here. Maybe the Church should have annual reviews for management.
Marx should be reminded that God’s commands were literally written in stone atop Mt. Sinai.
These Marx-ist German bishops are in urgent need of a new spiritual home. I do hope Pope Francis assists them in finding one.
LexCredendi,
As regards Pope Francis’ assisting the wayward Marx-ists to a new spiritual home, don’t count on it.
Yes, I agree. I’m not counting on it. Just expressing a wish.
The Church has faced Many Heresies and has defeated them all so far. Most of the Heresies in the past where in relation to Transcendent Truths such as the Dual Nature of Christ, or the Reality of the human person as both Body AND Soul. Since Satan has failed at derailing the entire Church (though he led many astray) with these previous heresies, he is finally trying to stay out the realm of Transcendent truths, and now is attacking the truth’s of God’s shown in nature. Again, this attack is directed at God himself in the humanity of Christ, but it’s directed towards all humanity. It is an attempt by the enemy to create a division between what is human nature as made by God, and our human free will. What this heresy will be known as in the long run it’s difficult to know, but let’s just describe it as the heresy of Human nature as a malleable function of our free will. It is to posit that somehow our nature is not dependent upon God’s inherent design for us, but instead is dependent upon our own free will. Satan is cunning, since he knows our free will is our most God Like attribute, and yet it was our free will which was the beginning of sin entering into humanity through our first parents. God Gave to Adam and Eve the job to tend creation, but the tree of knowledge of good and evil they were forbidden to partake in. Of course, Satan delights in seeing humanity deform our own understanding of our nature. Satan delights in seeing us destroy the Goodness of God in our very selves. Cardinal Marx, like many confused and deceived bishops before him who promoted heresies in the past, is a willing participant in the game plan of Satan, even if he himself does not know this! By divorcing Free will from reason, and couching it terms of ‘compassion’ and ‘journey’, he speaks the same words of Satan in the Garden; ‘You will not surely die!’ Satan must have seemed very comforting and empathetic to Eve in her desire for the sin of disobedience. You could almost Say that Satan ‘accompanied’ Eve into her sin of disobedience. Oh yes, by enabling humanity in the Sin of Disobedience against our Nature, Marx, and others who give cover to sexual vice, especially that which is contrary to human nature (homosexuality, transgenderism etc…), these prelates and priests are full cooperator’s in the deception and destruction of those who are tempted to these unnatural sins. The Church needs to stand up to this heresy, condemn it or else many will perish.
“Sure, there are people who want to see sexuality limited to procreation, but what do they say to people who can’t have children?” -Cardinal Marx
“TRUST IN GOD” is what we say, and so should Marx. Sarah/Abraham and Elizabeth/Zechariah couldn’t have children either, yet God blessed them with Isaac and John the Baptist. The impossible is possible only with God. But He does it in a way that respects male & female complementarity. NEVER has He made possible natural conception (i.e., no outside human intervention, like IVF, sperm donors, surrogates) of a child between same-sex partners. Why? Because that’s not how He made us, nor what His will is for us.
We each bear crosses, and some are harder to bear than others. Persons with other than heterosexual desires must TRUST IN GOD to help them carry their cross and lead a chaste life. ALL of us must turn to His truth, not our self-proclaimed “reality”; to His will, not our own selfish desires.
Cardinal Marx and his kind are bowing down to demonic cultural forces simply because they are popular, and many of their flock would vanish overnight if they held firm to the eternal truths of our faith and the Word on matters of human sexuality. I pray for their repentance, and may God have mercy on them for leading others astray. “What a man believes depends upon his philosophy, not upon the clock or the century.” -G.K. Chesterton
May I say this charitably?
HERETIC
Right, the greatest enemies of the Church come from within the Church.
It’s refreshing to see some lay people finally waking up to the hypocrisy of the Catholic church. Read the scriptures more closely and compare it to the churches traditions……what an eye opener!
I thank God that His Eminence, Cardinal Marx and his likes, are coming out plain. Who is still in doubt that we’re at the end times? Satan and his minions have been battling the One Church founded by Jesus Christ on the faith expressed by St Peter. The firm promise of Christ still stands: “The gates of the netherworld cannot prevail against it” Let’s buckle up our weapons of faith and engage the Devil and his agents. The Sacraments are our greatest weapons- The Holy Eucharist, Confession, etc. Let us fight to the point of laying down our lives. God bless us all as we engage in this battle for souls. Communion of reparation-on the Tongue and kneeling. “Shine your eyes” my people will say. Your soul and mine are worth the fight.
Another example of the leaders of our Church leading away from the Catholic Faith.
Well put.
Yep. Wait for an “M” to be added to LGBTQI+.
Correction. LGBTQAI+.
Something’s missing; and it is, teleology. What is the end of it? The thing that is being aimed for is not shown to be faith.
Something else is missing; and it is, ontology. What is the integrity of it? The thing that is in process lacks cogent elements.
Maybe they will say something like, “The end IS the relationship – the relational continuum. Because our interest is accompaniment. This was how the primitive church was.” In which case I think they have not proven their case.
Cardinal Marx is also demonstration a survey method, I think. He is eliciting responses and fielding information that can be gathered up and formulated into “new norms” in the “Walking Synod”. They will not be new though.
Edit: ….. is also demonstrating …..
Much of the evils wrought by Nazi Doctor experimentation in World War II concentration camps, are the direct antecedent to these modern abominations: concentration camp experiments, twin studies, and the like, have led to IVF and other monstrosities by the medical community today. As an RN and NP, I will tell you this, all transgender operations mean money to doctors and hospitals and the unnatural hormonal changes create a “permanent patient” and cash flow for surgeons and physicians and pharmaceutical companies. Attack this from not just moral grounds, but economies/financial as well. President Biden states all government FORMS will now have a section for male , female and “x” as gender. How much money will this cost the American taxpayers to change ALL their many forms? Tax payers should know those financial numbers.Fight insurance companies being allowed to cover the surgeries and the medications. Hit this not just from the moral high ground, attack the pocketbooks. Make it financially non viable for the medical community. The Doctor who started doing these sex change operations in Telluride, Colorado decades ago is not working for free. Don’t allow it to become mainstream financially. Cut off the flows of cash supporting these unscrupulous and amoral surgeries. These patients need psychiatric help, not permanent patient hood. As for the Bishop Marx, yes, he is a heretic; but if there was no money supporting his articulations, no one would be listening and he’d be sent to a small parish. Given time to repent, and then excommunicated. Hit every aspect of this in all those wide varieties of interconnected spiderwebs of the pocket books. The battle will be shortened.
Honestly, I would like to see the children who went trans surgery or therapies and the like to be allowed to sue the doctors (and parents) for medical malpractice, if–when the children get to be an adult–things are not so rosy (and they are not likely to be rosy). That ought to help put a stop to the insanity.
Karl Marx. Adolf Hitler. Helmut Kentler. Reinhardt Marx. Georg Batxing. Germany is a nonstop source of evil, perverted people spreading their poisonous ideas to the rest of the world.
Why wait to sue the perpetrators of the castration/sterilization and their media cheerleaders?
More defective thinking from people you would not trust to choose a toaster oven, let alone influence your eternal destiny:
German theologian H. Hoping: “The Synodal Way Changes the Architecture of the Doctrine of Knowledge”
The reason Jesus calls our first Pope, St. Peter, ‘Satan’, is because Peter is talking and thinking like the secular world talks and thinks. Matthew 16:23, He turned and said to Peter, “Get behind me, Satan! You are an obstacle to me. You are thinking not as God does, but as human beings do.”
We have to all Pray the 1890 version of the Prayer to St. Michael the Archangel. It gives a clearer picture of what was on Pope Leo XIII’s mind when he desperately wrote the Prayer to St. Michael the Archangel. After a millennium and a half of relative safety, Pope Leo XIII saw the Spiritual authority of the papacy in grave danger. Papal States had fallen in 1870, which destroyed the papacy’s temporal authority. In writing the Prayer to St. Michael the Archangel, Pope Leo XIII is sending out a, calling all angels, SOS, to protect Spiritual authority ‘The Holy Place’ of the papacy from falling under the control of, the secular world ‘Satan’, as well.
A portion of, Prayer to St. Michael the Archangel 1890 edition
These most crafty enemies have filled and inebriated with gall and bitterness the Church, the spouse of the Immaculate Lamb, and have laid impious hands on her most sacred possessions.
In the Holy Place itself, where has been set up the See of the most blessed Peter and the Chair of Truth for the light of the world, they have raised the throne of their abominable impiety, with the iniquitous design that when the Pastor has been struck, the sheep may be scattered.
Arise then, O invincible prince, bring help against the attacks of the lost spirits to the people of God, and bring them the victory.
Quoted from:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prayer_to_Saint_Michael…
Jesus prophetic sign for His Second Coming, is that, after the gospel has been proclaimed around the world, we will see: Matthew 24, ‘The Desolating Abomination spoken of through Daniel the prophet Standing in the Holy Place’ When we do see Christ’s Holy Place, talking and acting like the secular world, political left, ‘gay lobby’, etc., Jesus tells us to run to the mountains and don’t even go back in your house to get your coat, “for at that time there will be great tribulation, such as has not been since the beginning of the world until now, nor ever will be.”
Through locutions to St. Faustina, Jesus and the Blessed Mother have confirmed that Jesus is, in fact, inbound to earth. In the third secret of Fatima, we see that the Blessed Mother has St. Michael the Archangel in a holding pattern, ready to light the earth on fire, upon her command. As of the year 2000, Jesus has opened a portal with His recent gifts of Divine Mercy Sunday, for us to now run to. Jesus swears to us that anyone who takes refuge in His Divine Mercy, will be spared the great tribulation which comes with Jesus, upon His Second Coming.
Matthew 24:15 The Great Tribulation.
“When you see the desolating abomination spoken of through Daniel the prophet standing in the holy place (let the reader understand), then those in Judea must flee to the mountains, a person on the housetop must not go down to get things out of his house, a person in the field must not return to get his cloak. Woe to pregnant women and nursing mothers in those days. Pray that your flight not be in winter or on the sabbath, for at that time there will be great tribulation, such as has not been since the beginning of the world until now, nor ever will be.
Divine Mercy in My Soul, 635, The Blessed Virgin Mary :
… you have to speak to the world about His great mercy and prepare the world for the Second Coming of Him who will come, not as a merciful Savior, but as a just Judge. Oh, how terrible is that day! Determined is the day of justice, the day of divine wrath. The angels tremble before it. Speak to souls about this great mercy while it is still the time for [granting] mercy. If you keep silent now, you will be answering for a great number of souls on that terrible day.
A portion of the Third Secret of Fatima
After the two parts which I have already explained, at the left of Our Lady and a little above, we saw an Angel with a flaming sword in his left hand; flashing, it gave out flames that looked as though they would set the world on fire; but they died out in contact with the splendour that Our Lady radiated towards him from her right hand: pointing to the earth with his right hand, the Angel cried out in a loud voice: ‘Penance, Penance, Penance!’
Quoted from the Vatican: The Message of Fatima
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Marx tries to make sin into virtue. Somebody bench him before he can do any additional damage.
I agree with Bishop Joseph Strickland of Tyler, Texas. Cardinal Marx has left the Catholic faith, and should do the honest thing by resigning from office he holds in a Church whose teachings he no longer believes in.
Please pray for Cardinal Marx…I fear for his soul:
“ But whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a great millstone fastened around his neck and to be drowned in the depth of the sea.” Matthew 18:6
He seems to have allowed his ideological beliefs overwhelm his religious convictions. That’s obvious from his comments on the sociological-scientific foundation of this teaching remark. No where has he implied or does he state that his belief on this teaching has been divinely revealed. It seems reckless and dangerous for a Cardinal of the Catholic Church to go against the full weight of 2000 years of teaching on this aspect of our lives. Pray that he turns back to teaching in full communion with all that has been revealed to us through the Holy Catholic Church.