Bishop Gives Stark Warning About Synodality To The Church

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2:05He's got some words about synodality to tell people. Stuff that sounds like things that more moderate commentators who are opposed to synodality would say, which is fascinating for a bishop who is also actually friendly to tradition. And that because I have made very clear, we need to stop calling people friendly to tradition because they have an FSSP parish in their diocese. The term friendly to tradition is usually misused anyway and is often applied to bishops who do things like send priests who are too conservative or too traditional to therapy at psych hospitals that deal with macarachines of priests like the archbishop of Denver, who by the way just canceled a or who allowed to be canceled as we're waiting for more details to emerge or rather a high profile Catholic speaker for telling the truth about things in the church and I'll report on that in the coming days.

3:05Bishop Lippert is actually truly friendly to tradition as you'll see as we go over this go over an interview he gave but he warns about synodality. But I want to give you a bit of good news first. I do not dance in the street every time a new TLM is announced. There's always a purpose behind it oftentimes but I am pro traditional Latin mass regardless of where you can get it. So here's some good news for those of you in the diocese of Pittsburgh. Conway, Pennsylvania according to the Mason Dixon Latin mass society. Just up the river from Bishop Eckman's Latin mass ban at St. Titus in Alecwippa, a privately owned church is being restored. An ecclesiad day priest will offer the first mass this Sunday. This is the way. Ecclesiad day means a priest associated with what some call endolt masses, you know, the diocesan masses or the ecclesiad day institutes the FSSP Institute of Christ the King.

4:05Right. So late so Latin Mason Dixon Latin mass society posts screenshots from a Facebook post. A little be revalued by the grace of God we are extremely blessed to be able to provide greater access to the TLM and sacraments for our community. It's a pre-concil your form of the sacraments as well. While we undergo a massive restoration, please enjoy the artistic renderings and information about project fundraising. It will be extraordinarily grateful for your donations and they have a peel box there if you wish to send them something. For those who are listening in the audio only versions of this, peel box 131 Conway, Pennsylvania 15027. And their first mass will be on the Feast of St. Francis of the CC 4th of October in Conway, Pennsylvania. So that is good news. That is good news. And the TLM does kind of come into our main story here. Advote Conum is the one with the interview with Bishop Lippert. And I will tell you, anybody who is in the hierarchy who is speaking against sinidelity

5:09even mildly, you should keep in your prayers. They are taking a brave stand and comes with great personal risk. We have seen a lot of retribution against bishops who are just guilty of being conservative in a post-concilier sense. We are speaking against things like sinidelity. But the interview was conducted by Mr. Newell Limbo of Advote Conum under the headline, exclusive Bishop Lippert on mission introducing the TLM to his diocese, German sinidelity and what to read. And there is a lot of time spent here in this interview talking about how he has been the Bishop of Mendy in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea since 2012, named as such by Benedict XVI. He was born in Pittsburgh, formed by the capuchins of St. Augustine province. There is a lot of this goes into that. He included also brought to Papua New Guinea the solemn high mass workshops in Cigurian Chant.

6:09He brought in a diocesan year of reverence. And actually as he says here later on, that he also celebrated a holy kerbana, which is the Ciro Malibar High Mass. So the Ciro Malibar is a traditional liturgy. It's an Eastern liturgy. So he brought in Eastern liturgy because he has a lot of missionary priests from the Ciro Malibar Church. And the local population had never seen a Ciro Malibar Mass like most of you watching this. And he got to introduce them to the Eastern liturgy and Eastern traditions. And that's not a bad thing. If you have an opportunity, at some point, go attend a Byzantine Mass, go attend a Maranite Mass, a Ciro Malibar, whatever else, whatever Eastern. They're all part of the Catholic patrimony. They're all traditional liturgy. You should go attend them if you can. Well, some of the Eastern liturgy have their own sort of internal debates going on about

7:10novice order weighing up their masses or not. You see this in the Maranite right, for example. I'll leave most of the commentary to that stuff to those more knowledgeable about that other than to say this. Hang on to your liturgical traditions in the East. They're coming for them. And Vatican II told you to hang on to your liturgical traditions. Like quite literally, there's a document of Vatican II that says Eastern liturgy should remain Eastern. To resist the temptation to essentially make them more Latin. By Latin, now we mean Novosorto. Now, that I'm a bit sad. He is returning in October to Pittsburgh. Advertisement asks him in October. You return to Pittsburgh for the Catholic identity conference in the double tree in Green Tree. So for those of you going to the Catholic identity conference, you're going to get a chance to see this bishop in person. Your talk is titled, Baptizing all Nations, St. Francis and the Great Commission. What do you hope that audience, many of them formed in the American traditional movement,

8:13will take home about mission that they cannot learn from books or from the controversy to the last decade. To which he responds, I'm actually giving my talk on the Feast of St. Francis, which is Sunday, October 4th, and it is the 800th anniversary of his passing. I was a bit surprised to be contacted by the Catholic identity conference and to come and share my own thinking on mission in St. Francis. I'm very grateful. If you wanted to boil it all down without giving a spoiler of what I will be saying, there are two big things. We have seen a diminishment in the missionary activity in the church over the past 50 or 60 years, which is lamentable, especially on this day when in the United States there be a defying full machine who was such a fierce supporter of the missions. The absolute necessity today more than ever is that we need a new missionary zeal in the church. The church in the West, or anywhere you look practically except maybe for some places in Africa or India, faces the world that has become hostile to the message of Christ. There is a new barbarism in the world today, and that calls forth the missionary impulse from the church, which is missionary by its nature.

9:14The missionary impulse is important for two main reasons. Number one, Jesus told us to do it. That is reason enough. You can stop right there. That is the great commission. Go and baptize all nations. Jesus said it, so we do it. It's not a great suggestion, it's a great commission. That is also reason enough to celebrate Mass. Jesus said, do this in memory of me. What else do you need? My second point is why do we do it? Why do we insist on the unicity of Jesus? Why do we insist on the necessity of the church? It is not to win arguments, it is not to make our tribe or our team look good. It is because it is true. It is my experience that when people experience Jesus and when people come into the church, it does make a difference. It is true. That basically is the point I hope to make. I would ask everybody to tune into the Catholic identity conference, which is being trained and offered for free for all those who wish to follow the conferences. There are great many people, a good deal smarter and more articulate than I am who will be there. Bishop Schneider, and I think Bishop Mutseritz is going to be there, Dr. Kwasnowski and others.

10:16It is really worth a look. He has asked about a document of adding it to Agentes, which teaches the church's missionary and that every bishop is consecrated for this. He goes into the detail about what he has learned as a missionary bishop in Papua New Guinea. He is asked about Fulton Sheen. We will skip over some of that because what he has been talking about here. First and foremost is NGOs. I don't have a lot of nice things to say about NGOs, but I can never really put my finger on what bothers him about even Catholic NGOs. Because Catholic NGOs are guilty of secularism as well. It is practically built into them. They model themselves in every single way, a module off of secular organizations. Most of them are just Catholic in name, only maybe they hire a disproportionate number of Catholic compared to other secular organizations. Maybe they have a mass offered there, but their mission is horrifyingly secular. And the bishop here nails it. Bear that in mind that we live in a time in Cardinal Robert Sarah and Cardinal Raymond

11:21Burr, and Bishop Schneider and others have warned that the Catholic church risks becoming just a secular NGO. Because of the way it operates in the world now. Here is what he has asked. The interviewer says Sheen also argued that souls, not merely territories, make the missions, and that the missions themselves needed a Jornamento. A Jornamento is the word John the 23rd used to talk about what the purpose of Vatican too would be. It is an a Jornamento. We are going to open the windows of the church to the world and let in some fresh air. It is a renewal, a springtime in the church. That is a Jornamento stuff. The Jornamento really means permanent change, change without end. That is what a Jornamento brought. Just an endless tidal wave of changes. Most people who are capable of watching this podcast, let alone are under the age probably of 75. And I point that out because Vatican II closed in 1965.

12:22That was 60 years ago, 61 years ago. The new mass was introduced in 1969 and promulgated in 1970. US spent your entire lives in a season of a Jornamento and has been nothing but change, change upon change upon change. Another word for a Jornamento could be chaos. That is not quite the tack he takes here. The interviewer says, thus what did the council get right or wrong about missionary work that later practiced sometimes forgot? And what would you ask of the wider church regarding missionary work in places like the Highlands of Papua New Guinea? If its mission remains about Christ and the church rather than development work with religious veneer such as NGOs. He says in fact we work with NGOs here in Papua New Guinea and sometimes I am actually inspired by their commitment to development and by their own approach to things. I have said to them in polite ways because they talk about integral human development. The NGOs speak about that. You know what else he speaks about integral human development?

13:25Francis did. So does Leo. Secular language. And he says I do speak to them the NGOs as friends, not in any disrespectful way, that the only one who can give integral human development is the church. Because NGOs do not allow faith. There is no faith there. That is not very integral. There is something missing from there, the NGO approach to the service they give. Whatever development they do. It is only the church that can give integral human development because it includes the human being as an integrated body, integrated whole rather of body and soul. I think in every case as Blessed Fulton Sheen mentioned it in that quotation you gave when we say missions, most Catholics, at least from my generation, from my upbringing, think of Africa or some place far away and they think of places. But it is souls. It is people. Even more than souls, it is people because it is their bodies too. It is people who are the targets of missionary activity. In fact that is what Jesus said.

14:27He did not say where to go. He just said to go and baptize all people, all nations. So his target was also people. That was his concern. That was his love. He is the savior of people. He is the savior of the entire world. That is true. There is a mystical element to salvation. The world too as we know will be redeemed. But Jesus' principle goal or target was human beings, whom he loved, for whom he is the savior and for whom he died and rose. Keeping people as the target of mission is important. But at the same time what is the message? The message is that the person's relationship with God. So there is not simply man-centered or human being-centered in exactly the same sense. It is to bring the human being or to open the human being to the encounter with God who will be adored and loved and served. We always have to keep that in mind. The heart of that is bringing them to Jesus who is the savior of the world and who can transform their lives. I think that is very important. The wider church can do whatever is possible to support that and to realize that it is

15:29needed not only in places like Mendy and the hills of Mendy, but very much needed everywhere. I think the church has gone a little too far in one direction and maybe it's time to pull it back a little more toward this direction. What I mean by that is this, and showing deference and respect to other religions, sometimes people can read that it's not admitting or not realizing or not proclaiming the uniqueness of Jesus Christ in the Catholic church. I think the Catholic church needs to be clearer about that. Certainly those messages came out in the council. Maybe mixed messages came out, but certainly that message came out. It was spoken very clearly in John Paul II's Domino's E.A.S. and in many other places. I think we need to get back to respectfully, but not a bashedly, claiming Jesus proclaiming Jesus Christ as the savior of the world and the church as Jesus's own method of doing that and his own constitution for doing that. That is what I would ask of the wider church. Be very clear about the importance of Jesus, the necessity of Jesus and the church. I think that would engender and inspire a deepening in missionary zeal.

16:31When was the last time I heard a bishop talk about missionary zeal? In the context of souls. When was the last time you heard about her to bishop talk about the need to save souls? Probably can think of, you know, Bishop Stricklander, Schneider or Burke or Sarah or somebody like that speaking about souls. But how about an ordinary somewhere? The last time you heard a bishop who is a public ordinary who runs a diocese speak about missionary work in the context of saving souls. Not very often. It goes into his attitudes about the TLM bringing the TLM to his diocese that he says himself and all these other, you know, those sorts of things that are important, including the solemn high mass, right? But synodality. He's asked, you're accidentally, synodality is now a word heard everywhere.

17:31Communion, participation, mission. In a highland diocese like Mendy and Papua New Guinea, what does synodality actually mean on the ground? Is it simply the church's name for a millennesian way of walking together that was already there? Or does the gospel demand something more, a listening that still ends in a bishop who teaches, a priest who observes in a people who receive a faith they did not invent? How do you keep journeying together from becoming another word for leaving doctrine, liturgy and the hard work of conversion to the next consultation? His response. The gospel always demands something more. As Jesus said to the young man, there is one thing more. We always have one thing more that we are holding onto that we do not want to let go of. I can answer that in two ways. On the one hand, the obvious and most literal approach to synodality is what we have always done here. I do not know if it is because it was the missions or if it was part of the millennian culture, which is certainly in some ways, discussion. Everything here is through talking and discussion.

18:32From that perspective, whatever you call it, it was here already and really from the beginning. When a small group of people come into another country and know nothing, do not know the language, do not know the culture, do not know the places, you automatically work with people who can help you and can share those ideas. We have here a diocesan pastoral council that comes yearly. Lay people and priests and sisters who come and discuss various pastoral strategies and projections. Every parish is a parish pastoral council. I do not make any decisions without consulting with others. All those ways I think we have done that. Those kinds of structures are important and they have never been foreign to the church. It is not as if these things were just invented. These are things that are in many ways common sense and have always been a part of the way things are done here in the diocese. In many places I would imagine the same is true. I am sure there are abuses of a power or authority in any other organization, but I think those are not endemic to what the church is. I know many people disagree with that, that there is a widespread problem of abuse of power and authority in the church today.

19:34It is fine to disagree with them on that. Beyond that is important for us to say faithful to the Lord and the way he established the church. Without getting too controversial, there is a good way of synodality and there is a side that does not concern me a bit. The acceptable or good way of synodality is something we have been doing all along and is more focused on the local level. The local church perishes and dioceses and that sense is certainly an acceptable and good thing. It is one that we would promote here in the diocese. When you look at it in a more global kind of way, I have two words that will explain what I am saying. Anglicanism and Germany. Those are two synodal bodies that are off the rails. I do not want to go that way. We do not have to be theoretical. We can see that the Anglican church has imploded and that Germany is going off the rails. I do not want that for the Catholic church. I do not want that for Mendy. I do not want that for the… Nicky Glazer. This stunning tour. The thoughts of death I don't like to dwell on them for longer than like 10 or 15 hours

20:37a day. So… November 19th. Yamabah Theater. No wonder women rush to have kids were being trained for it since we were kids. They are like, here is a baby doll. There is an easy-bake oven. I got one of those. I stuck my head in it. I was like, I want out of this narrowness. Tickets on sale now at Yamabah Theater dot com. Don't miss Nicky Glazer. Yamabah Theater. Are your ad campaigns lighting up the dashboard? But not the pipeline. That's bullspend. And marketers are calling it out in dashboard confessions. My boss asks for results. So I open my dashboard for the only positive sounding metric I had. Impressions. Cut the bullspend. See revenue? Not just reach. LinkedIn delivers the highest return on ad spend of major ad networks. Advertise on LinkedIn. Spend $250 on your first campaign and get a $25 cried I go to LinkedIn dot com slash campaign turns the conditions apply. Universal Church. We have to be very careful that we do not go down either of those roads because that would be disastrous for the church universal.

21:39And I was going to say that. Why is he invoking Anglicanism in the Germans in a way? Because it was pretty obvious to as soon as Francis started talking about synodality and listening and the sort of democratization. We start talking about that stuff more overtly pretty much as soon as the pan-Amazon ended in 2019. That the Anglican Church was their model. They wanted to make things more Anglican. That hasn't exactly worked out well for the Anglican Church to put him mildly. But there's also a very clear spirit of change in the church and not just changing administrative practices, which is essentially what turning what more focus on listening is an administration, administrative practice. It's not just that, but changing the faith itself. That's why he invokes Germany there. He's not the only one to notice this by the way. He has Leo's new appointments, actually, has been pretty decent on one at least so far.

22:44He's also stayed out of the news mostly until now. And that is a good thing. And that new appointment is his prefect for the legislative text. This is a Vatican librarian, basically. Not exactly the most high profile position in the church, but he's now speaking out of us in idality. Put in Favaticana. The new prefect of legislative text defense canonical tradition in the face of the sonanal process. Why does he need to do that? Why does Archbishop Anthony Rondazo need to do that? It's because the church in Germany, the church in Spain, the church in the Netherlands, the church anywhere you want to go in the West is using synodality to openly question fundamentals of Catholicism itself about who can receive the Eucharist, about morality,

23:46about other religions, everything is putting everything in the faith up to open for questioning and open for change. That is how they're looking at it. All you have to do is look at the documents were released by the synod working groups, which call for things like training seminarians, while they're in seminary, to make sure that they're not too rigid and conservative, that they come out properly formed in the sonanal method. This is their counter argument to all these young conservative men who are in the seminaries now. We see this in the documents that they published about accompanying James Martin types and being more open to them and all the rest of that stuff, which is now being implemented in every diocese in the church at the order of Rome and on and on and on it goes. This bishop, who I think will probably be made a cardinal, almost certainly, I mean after

24:47he is a prefect, even if it's for the deacastry of legislative tax, not the most high profile of the castry in the church to put it mildly, but he is a prefect of a deacastry, so he'll probably be made a cardinal when Leo gets around to doing that probably in January of a fine to guess. He's warning people. Here's what he has to say from the article. The new prefect of the deacastry for legislative tax, Archbishop Anthony Rondazo, has warned against interpretations of synodality that view the current ecclesial moment as an opportunity to discard elements of the church's life and tradition, considered outdated. People he maintains does not consist of abandoning roots, but rather in allowing them to bear new fruit. Rondazo issued the warning in his first in-depth interview since being appointed head of the Curious Body, responsible for canon law. The conversation was published this month by the Scarly Journal of Vox Canonica, in which the Australian Archbishop addressed the relationship between canon law, synodality, reform and evangelizing mission.

25:50To explain his concept of ecclesial renewal, Rondazo uses the imagery of an ancient tree. The church he affirmed can experience this current period as a new springtime, in which the old wood produces new green shoots without the tree ceasing to be what it is. The prefect then introduced his warning. Some overly enthusiastic interpretations of synodality may see this moment as simply an opportunity to cut out what is perceived as dead wood. In other words, some are using the opportunity to cut out church teachings and things about the Catholic faith that they don't think work anymore. Sound familiar? It should. The danger arises when this pruning is done without the necessary discernment. What is presented as renewal can end up causing unnecessary harm in weakening the tree instead of allowing it to flourish. The church does not renew itself by abandoning its roots, but by allowing those roots to nourish new growth he explained. Rondazo does not thereby reject synodality. On the contrary, he considers that sonotal life has long been part of the reality of the

26:52church. His objection is directed at presenting the current process as a rupture that allows for dispensing with elements received from ecclesial tradition. The Vatican official maintains that terms such as synodality and accompaniment, although they have acquired a particular presence in contemporary ecclesial language, express realities that already incorporated into canonical tradition. Synodality and accompaniment are not new concepts he stated. Other contemporary expressions intended to help the church scrutinize the signs of the times, to interpret them in the light of the gospel. Rondazo finds this continuity in both the code of canon law of the Latin church and the code of canons of the Eastern churches. In both the identifies three elements that he considers fundamental for synodal church, communion, participation, and mission through accompaniment. Regarding communion, he cites canon to zero way to the Latin code, which establishes the true equality existing among all the faithful in terms of their dignity and role in building the body of Christ. Regarding participation, he refers to canon 212 subsection 3. Concerning the right and uncertain circumstances, the duty of the faithful to express their pastors,

27:55their opinions on matters related to the good of the church. Regarding accompaniment, he mentions among others canon 1063 relating to pastoral assistance that must be given to the faithful, so that the married status maintained in a Christian spirit and progresses towards perfection. These canons demonstrate that accompaniment is not simply a pastoral method, but a juridical expression of communion, participation and mission of the church, he noted. In contrast to a concept of reform, understood primarily as the modification of structures, or the abandonment of inherited elements, the prefect expressed his preference for speaking of regeneration, which is, he explains, returning to the genesis of our identity and mandate as disciples of Christ. In other words, synodality should be about making us re-embrace what it means to be Catholic. That's what he's saying. I like his attitude about it, but that's not what synodality is about, now is it?

28:58And it's not what it's been about since the synodal process started. There's a reason they haven't given you a clear definition of what synodality actually is. This definition there is similar to those of other moderate and conservative bishops who have tried to suss out what the definition is, what synodality means, based entirely on things, that Francis, Holorick, Gresh, and Alio and others in their orbit have said synodality means. But they've never actually defined it. My hope is that Leo will give an authoritative definition of synodality, so we'll know what we're working with, but that is not the modernist way. Confidence thrives with ambiguity. It is why every single document issued by the church with the exception of excommunication of traditional Catholics have always been written in ambiguous terms. And it gives them wiggle room to implement it, how they wish. The Catholic faith, its medici-terial documents, have always been rather unambiguous.

30:01Modernism is not Catholicism, it is something else entirely, and therein lies the rub. They rely on ambiguity. They cannot thrive without ambiguity. They cannot have success implementing the changes they want in the church. And one of the giveaways on this is a document from Cardinal Koch issued two years ago now, on the need for to reframe the papacy in a synodal dimension. When they're done with their reforms, they want to demote the pope, so that he is half a step above being first among equals. First among equals is how kind of the Eastern Orthodox view the pope. They want to make sure he has some authority still, but that he's lost almost all of his authority. Because the authority of the Roman Pontiff, as we understand it, is talked about by these people as being kind of an innovation from the time when the church got captured for a thousand years by rigidity. They're here to liberate us from our own rigidity, so that we can have a permanent, a ornamental, a permanent, never-ending season of change.

31:04But at least you have somebody in the hierarchy who is trying to warn people that the synodality is being used to change the church. Hopefully, those making such warnings will realize that appears to be what synodality was for in the first place. I am very curious what you think about this, so let me know in the comments. Let's go to our final story here, and this one is a bit of a hoot. The season of change is over. You may or the season of care for our common home, the season of creation. It's a new informal liturgical season. It will remain as such until they change the liturgical calendar, which I expect they will do, as they get more Catholics to approve of this. This is the second consecutive season of creation. That ends on the Feast of St. Francis of C.C.

32:06Runs for six weeks, and all we hear about during that time is, integral human development, sustainable development, care for the environment, and all these other things to take the secular concepts and sprinkle some incense on them, toss some holy water at it, and hey, we got this new liturgical season, totally Catholic. This season is drawing to a closer is, by the time most of you are seeing this, over. And that's fine. I can't wait for the next one. Maybe by the next one, they'll have issued an edit to the calendar to make this part of ordinary time and the new calendar, the season of creation. But there were orders for homilies given out by the US bishops. Here's a list of topics you can preach on for every Sunday of the season of creation. I reported on that when it happened, went out to practically every priest in the country. A lot of you reported afterwards that you had heard, fair number of homilies in the last few weeks about the environment and things. And what was about when it wasn't the environment, they were preaching on it was migrants.

33:08Which is also part of the season of creation, because the season of creation also just happens to coincide with the run up to a political season. But hey, you know, one thing at a time, I guess. The season of creation is over and now they are celebrating how victorious it was. And we go here, the National Catholic Reporter, and I love using them because they are such a radical outlet that they just will often just tell you what it is they want because they're talking to others they believe who are like minded. They got nothing to hide. They headlined from the National Catholic Reporter under their Earth beat section. Yeah. They just outline how nungs are marking the season of creation and honoring O, or common home. Now it begins with, you know, just a little bit of an introduction here. And we'll go over that and we'll skip down to just one nungs response, not all three of them that they have here. So they say here as way of introduction, for Catholic sisters around the world acknowledging

34:09the interconnectedness between the Earth and humanity, is it the heart of care for creation, whether that's expressed through protecting the Earth from destruction or simply basking in the joyful quiet moments that allow nature to reach the depths of our being. Creation our panelists for the life said is a source of prayer and revelation in itself. Here that again, creation is a source of revelation. Okay. And environmental stewardship cannot be separated from concern for those most vulnerable to ecological harm. Hence why you see always immigration brought up with the environment. Always. This is what they believe. Planting trees lobbying for environmental policies, transforming spaces into community gardens, supporting young students as they learn about one's duty to care for the natural world. No gestures to insignificant or daunting when contemplating the relationship between young people and the planet and responsibility that relationship implies.

35:12You know what's missing here? Again, these are, this isn't a secular non-governmental organization and NGO. These are Catholic sisters. These are women religious. So what's missing here? A logosple. This month the National Catholic Reporter asked our panelists, do you have any plans to celebrate the season of creation this year? They're publishing this at the end of the season of creation, right? So it's kind of a weird thing to do. But what creative, joyful or unexpected ways to you or your community use to honor and care for creation. So now creation must be honored. Here's kind of duly, are we offering creation here? And so we ask, you know, how to do a double take here because the haircut, but that is a nun who is not wearing a habit, sister, de-dramakena, but we're going to skip past her. We go here to sister Aaron Zubal, who is an Ursula and sister of Cleveland and is chief

36:15of staff at the network lobby for Catholic social justice. Now many of you who are knowledgeable of such things will know or maybe have heard me speak about this in the past that the term social justice was invented by the Catholic Church and it was invented by the Catholic Church, a full century before Vatican II. The first documents that I could find in researching my doctoral dissertation on Catholic social teaching was about social justice as a response to Marxism in the mid 19th century, because that was a hot topic in Italy, a brother Luigi Taparelli who was a seminary classmate of the future of Pope Leo the 13th, coined the term social justice and it was to offer an alternative to Marxism, to defend the rights of property owners against Marxists.

37:18If you were scratching your head at that use of social justice, that's because many of the churches' best branding, best use of language have been stolen by Marxists and then flipped on their head for their meaning, such as social justice. Keep that in mind and ask yourself which one she's talking about here. They introduced this in this sister. In this role they say she leads internal coordination and integration of teams and operations to advance network submission. Zubal is the first person to serve in this position and brings a depth of knowledge and experience in education, social work and public policy to the role. She served for 15 years as a social worker and educator in Catholic elementary and high schools in the Cleveland Diocese. She holds a master's degree in social work administration from Case Western Reserve University and a master's in educational administration from Ursuline College.

38:21I've known a lot of majors when I was in grad school who were majoring in social work administration. I shudder to think what work they're doing now all these years later. Her response. This year the season of creation is hard. As people of faith celebrate the goodness of all of God's creation we continue to face threats to the health and well-being of millions of our neighbors. As well as the destruction of the shared beauty of Mother Earth we call home. Another word for Mother Earth is Pacamama. Mother Earth. G.K. Chesterton said the Earth is not our mother. The Earth is our sister in creation. We are too safeguard her and protect her. But she's not our mother. And when you view the Earth as Mother you get a very disordered view of what stewardship means. The sister continues saying the presidential administration of the U.S. didn't take long to get to politics did it.

39:23Has dismantled environmental protections against toxic chemicals exposing millions of people to increase cancer risks and potential long-term health arms. This is a grave injustice fueled by indifference and disrespect to both the natural environment and human dignity. I'll turn it to view here. This comes from my background in public policy. You know where most regulations come from? In industry, the environment, whatever it is. You know where they mostly come from? Obvious. Most of the time lobbyists for the most powerful corporations will go and present regulations to members of Congress. Things that their employer can handle just fine, but ones that really make it hard for new competition or their competitors to survive in the market. That's where most of them come from. And oftentimes they're written in such a way as to not have any basis in reality at all for any whatever it is they're dealing with and usually cause grave economic harms.

40:25Which by the way, economic considerations are part of a traditional sustainable development literature. These kinds of people don't usually care about things like people having jobs. So she says meanwhile, proposals to open areas near our national lands to the fossil fuel industries jeopardize wildlife habitats and beauty of nature that countless people have enjoyed and marveled as our shared treasure. This is indifference mixed with commodifying and taking what God has given all of us and hauling it out for short-term benefit of a wealthy few. And then rather perfectly, by the way, if I was wearing a hat, I would take a few and hit it to the National Catholic Reporter here because they include a picture of the vehicle for the nuns on the bus, perfectly placed. It'll be hard pressed to find a more radical left-wing activist group than the nuns on the bus. She says it's tempting to lose hope. This is why I'm grateful to serve with the community of network lobby for Catholic social justice. My colleagues tirelessly advocate for justice at the federal level, including environmental

41:26justice. And this inspires me even more to seek justice seekers across the country, taking up networks call and advocating powerfully in their local communities and making their views known to their lawmakers. This energy is contagious. Yeah, it's contagious, sort of like the 2020 affliction. It's authentic and tenacious, truly in the spirit of the sisters who founded network over 50 years ago. But our present day reminds us that the work is slow and that we will face setbacks and suffering along the way. Even with this knowledge, we keep acting in faith and hope. We keep trying, also knowing that everything touched by God is forever transformed. We are challenged as Christians to remember that even the resurrected Jesus still had his scars. And in that spirit, the season of creation, we also pray for resurrection, wholeness and oneness for her and with all God is made and gifted to us. May our actions on behalf of peace and justice continue to be our prayer back to the world. Ah, yes. My best retort in general to all of this is if you want a more truly just society, including

42:30how we treat the great gift of creation that God gave to us. The best thing you can do is to preach Christ crucified and risen from the dead. That is the best thing you can do. Spread the gospel, bring souls to Christ in such large numbers that the country ball and terrorly converts and orders itself to the social reign of Christ the King. And from there all your concerns will be addressed. If the lawmakers, regardless of the form of government, they have a very real fear of the Lord. Can't do that though. It wouldn't be sonarol. It wouldn't be socially just to do that because parts of the social justice, non-sense of these people preachers, always the same. It is always devoid of the gospel. It is always allowing for indifference. Remember that document leo published, had published recently written by three dicastories. The prefix of three dicastories, but Cardinal Fernandez was kind of a go-to one you can tell

43:34by reading it and by the fact that he's the main one of the prefix doing the rounds right now defending the document. The document explicitly says no more proselytizing. And proselytizing is the word they use for preaching the gospel as if you actually believe what you said and think that pagan religions are evil. It's all means. And unfortunately that's the attitude we have now in the church. Well, at least in the sonarol church, I don't know about the Catholic church, but in the sonarol church their attitude is pretty straightforward. They don't believe in the gospel. They make Jesus just one way among many. This is Vatican II, the Catholic church, the church of Christ, rather, subsists in the Catholic church, whatever that means. Let me know what you think about this in the comments, please. I like and subscribe if you have not. It does help. Sharing this on social media helps a lot as well. Nick Eek laser, this stunning tour.

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