Bishops Go On The Counter-Offensive To Save Our Holy Roman Catholic Church From Nazism

James Eyong with files from Fon Lawrence in Rome

They say that a confrontation like this had never been seen before, perhaps not even at the Second Vatican Council. Soon after nine on Thursday, 16^th of October 2014, Cardinal Lorenzo Baldisseri, General Secretary to the Synod, takes the floor and announces that the relationes of the circuliminores would not be made public, a reverse course from what had always happened in the past and affirmed in the previous days. In other words, only the Relatio post disceptationem, signed by Cardinal Erdo and written by Abp. Bruno Forte, would have been fed to the press. Against the novelty presented by Baldisseri, rose up Cardinal George Pell, who strongly contested the decision. After him, a long line of Fathers, from the Archbishop of Brussels, Abp. Léonard, to that of Durban, Cardinal Napier, asked for the matter to be at least put to a vote. Even the Secretary of State took the floor. At the end, as Cardinal ChristophSchönborn would say some hours later at the press conference, "the decision to render public the relationes of the circuli was taken by large majority." The texts are clear, and go in an opposite direction as the one upheld by Cardinal Walter Kasper. A taste of what was to happen had already been given on late Wednesday by the Cardinal-Archbishop of New York, Timothy Dolan, who sided himself in a clear way to positions taken in the Hall by Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke. The Major Archbishop of Kiev, SviatoslavShevchuk, spoke directly of the need of "sending a clear message to the faithful and to the Pope" on the fact that "the family is the stable, faithful, and sacramental union between a man and a woman." The most controversial and delicate points, from the question of the approaching of remarried divorcees to the Eucharist to the overture to homosexual unions, were dismantled almost unanimously. That also because, as more than one Synod Father said, very little had been said of the unions between persons of the same sex - not more than three interventions in the assembly -and yet Monday's Relatio spoke about it ad abundantiam. The conclusions of the group [Gallicus B] moderated by Guinean Cardinal Robert Sarah, President of the Pontifical Council "Cor Unum", were particularly stern. On the third point, that of difficult pastoral situations, the thrashing was total: "The doctrine of the Church on the indissolubility of matrimony and non-admission of the remarried divorced to the sacraments of reconciliation and the Eucharist cannot be changed." The first Italian group [Italicus A], moderated by Cardinal Fernando Filoni, prefect of Propaganda Fide, notes that, "the Fathers, though moved by the problem, propose that the argument be re-studied under the light of n. 84 of [John Paul II's Apostolic Exhortation] FamiliarisConsortio, with the goal of specifying eventual conditions different from the current discipline." A clear consequence of Baldisseri's blunders and Kasper's Anti-African interview to Edward Pentin, led to the addition of one African to the original six-man papal drafting committee, Cardinal Napier, and also an Australian, Abp. Dennis Hart of Melbourne.Several commentators are saying, with greater vehemence, that the situation of Card. Kasper and Abp. Forte is untenable from now onward. Kasper has now been publicly revealed, thanks to the Pentin interview and his denial, as a man filled with incomprehensible and anti-Christian racial superiority, and a perverter of truth.  Forte, on the other hand, is a manipulator who single-handedly tried to destroy the permanent and unchangeable doctrine of the Church on several sensitive issues, in particular homosexuality, by fiat with no support whatsoever from the Synod Fathers.