Rorate Caeli: Vatican - Bishops, Get Ready: The Amazon Fake-Synod Bomb is Coming Up! (Confidential Letter)
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Something wicked this way comes.
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Source: Rorate-Caeli
Vatican City, 13 January 2020
Your Eminence, Your Grace, Your Excellency:
The Holy Father is preparing a new Apostolic Exhortation to present the
New Paths for the Church and for an Integral Ecology as developed with
the guidance of the Holy Spirit during the Synod on the Amazon in
October last year.
The draft is currently being reviewed and corrected and then needs to be
translated. Pope Francis hopes to promulgate it by the end of this
month or in early February.
The Exhortation is keenly awaited and will attract great interest and
many different responses. Accordingly, as was previously done with
Laudato si’ (2015), Amoris Laetitia (2016), Gaudete et Exsultate (2018)
and Christus Vivit (2019), the Holy Father would like the local
Ordinaries to receive the text directly, before it is published and
before the world press starts to comment on it, and join him in
presenting the Exhortation and making it accessible to the faithful, to
fellow believers and all people of good will, and to the media, the
academic world, and others in positions of authority and influence.
With the hope of preparing well, some suggestions are being offered in
this first letter. The purpose is not to generate publicity or attract
attention. Rather, it is quietly to support you the Ordinary, in
communion with Pope Francis, as you prepare to receive the Exhortation
and pass it on to the People of God in your jurisdiction. Accordingly,
with greatest freedom, please make use of the suggestions insofar as
they seem helpful.
A useful way of preparing would be read some of the relevant earlier
documents referenced below. In another 10 days or so, you will receive a
second letter with further suggestions.
When the day of promulgation draws near, you will receive the
Exhortation by email under embargo. On the day itself, there will be a
celebratory and communications event in the same Synod Hall where the
deliberations took place in October.
You may also want to begin planning a press briefing or a press
conference or other event as soon as convenient after the publication of
the Exhortation. For example, you may find it opportune to have the
Exhortation presented by yourself along with an indigenous spokesperson
if relevant in your area, an experienced pastoral leader (ordained or
religious, layman or laywoman), an expert on climate or ecology, and a
youth involved in peer ministry.
Please keep this letter confidential and share it only with those
directly involved in the Diocesan preparation for publication of the
Exhortation, not with others or with the media. Please do respect these
guidelines. At the same time, please be forgiving if you receive more
than one copy of this letter - it seems better to risk duplication
rather than fail to reach some dioceses because of poor internet
connectivity.
With the sincere hope that this letter has been helpful, let us join in
sincere prayer to Our Father of all mercies to bless Pope Francis and
all the Bishops in promulgating the Exhortation, and to dispose the
People of God in the Amazon and throughout the world to receive it with
faith and hope, intelligently and effectively.
Sincerely yours in Christ,
Cardinal Cláudio Hummes, OFM
General Rapporteur of the Synod
President of the Pan Amazonic Church Network (REPAM)
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The resources suggested are the following:
- Special Synod on the Amazon, FINAL DOCUMENT, 26.10.2019
- Pope Francis, MEETING WITH INDIGENOUS PEOPLE OF AMAZONIA, Puerto Maldonado, 19.1.2018
- Pope Francis, OPENING OF THE WORKS OF THE SPECIAL ASSEMBLY, 7.10.2019
- Cardinal Cláudio Hummes, INTRODUCTORY REPORT of the General Relator at the Synod, 7.10.2019
- Pope Francis, FINAL SPEECH to the Synod, 26.10.2019
- Pope Francis, LAUDATO SI’, 2015, especially chapter 5, “Lines of Approach and Action” and chapter 6, “Ecological Education and Spirituality”
The whole "confidential" letter was leaked to LifeSiteNews, which made it available in PDF.
Since the bishops of the rest of the world are not in the Amazon, this
bombastic letter makes clear that the Pope's decisions based on the
fake-Synod (whose members were handpicked by him to give him the results
that he wanted) will apply to the whole world. Including, most likely,
the raison-d'être of the fake-Synod, the priestly ordination of married
men.
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