Voting With The Crowd...
Voting against Church teaching and with the Zeitgeist : the "spirit of the age" may be popular with a generation who have been starved of any Catholic education, but we all know where this policy leads... And, if Sandro Magister is right (and he often is), and the Pope is beginning to promote and articulate an anti-Marx line, the time-servers (as it were) at the Vatican will no doubt coalesce around this new line from Rome. This will mean that Cardinal Nichols may quickly find himself out on a limb. The letter from the 461 has certainly got him rattled. He dedicated his Chrism Mass lecture homily to a directive on how to view the process: “It is wrong, in my view, to think or speak of this Synod as a battle, a battle between contesting sides. Battles have winners and losers. And often ‘collateral damage’ is the most tragic consequence of hostilities,” “This synod is a time of prayerful discernment, discernment about how we are to bring the love, mercy and tr...