Synod 2021- 2023- NY Archdiocese Wesbite
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Cardinal Dolan writes on the Synod:
“While in the world, we are not of the world, and thus our guiding principles come from the Gospel, revelation, and the patrimony of the Church’s settled teaching.”
The mission of the Church’s hierarchy and her priests is to teach God’s people the truths of the Faith, especially in times such as ours when religious ignorance and doctrinal confusion are so prevalent.
This upcoming Synod is a wonderful opportunity for this to happen.
From then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger ‘s homily at the Funeral of St. Pope John Paul II- April 8th- 2005
“ How many winds of doctrine have we known in recent decades, how may ideological currents, how many ways of thinking . The small boat of the thought of many Christians has often been tossed about buy these waves- flung from one extreme to another: from Marxism to liberalism , even to libertinism ; from collectivism to radical individualism ; from atheism to a vague religious mysticism ; from agnosticism to syncretism and so forth. Every day new sects spring up, and what St. Paul says about human deception and trickery that strives to entice people into error.
“Today having the clear faith based on the Creed of the Church is often labeled as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism , that is, letting oneself be tossed here and there, carried about by every wind of doctrine, seems the only attitude that can cope with modern times. We are building a dictatorship of relativism that does not recognize anything as definitive and whose ultimate goal consists solely on ones own ego and desires.”
