Every so often someone from synodal la la land swoops down into the comment sections of my articles and tries to convince me or my readers of some absurdity that accomplishes nothing except highlighting the fact that the synodal faith is not only dangerous to your soul, but, as I have pointed out before, apparently also to your reason and intellect. Now do not get me wrong. To quote that archenemy of the Catholic faith, Jorge Bergoglio, everyone, everyone, everyone is welcome to read this publication. They might just learn something and convert to Catholicism.
Just this past week one such brave soul dove into the comments to tell one of my regular Catholic readers that “there is not a ‘synodal’ church. There is only one Church of Christ.”
Although I agree with him that there is only one Church of Christ, the Catholic Church, he, like many others, is either so deceived or so ignorant, and I mean that in the most charitable sense, that he does not realize that another religion, or rather another church, is operating within the structures of the Catholic Church, and that this church and the faith it propagates have nothing to do with Roman Catholicism.
This is a rookie mistake if you have been a “Catholic” in the aftermath of the Second Vatican Council, but it is a mistake that should be corrected nonetheless, especially since souls are at stake in what I dare to call not only the Biggest Con of the Century, but probably the Biggest Con in All of Salvation History.
So allow me to do the honors of catechizing not only my friend quoted here, but everyone else, friend or foe, about this new but extremely dangerous religion.
Sadly, what is about to follow is not satire, although I will not blame the reader for thinking that it is. I will leave satire in the capable hands of Herod’s Herald and Irkutsk Ice Truckers.
The catechesis will take the shape of questions and answers in the style of the Baltimore Catechism and will include comparisons with the Roman Catholic religion.
When was the Synodal Church founded and by whom?
Although it is almost certain that this Great Deception was planned over millennia by the horned one, it is safe to say that the Synodal Church was founded at the Second Vatican Council, where its perpetrators, along with a handful of unprepared conservative cardinals, made a clean break with Catholicism.
A number of other factors also contributed to the rise of this new church, which embodies the Great Apostasy. Most notable was an intentional and carefully crafted long term plan by the Freemasons, whose very reason for existence was the destruction of the Catholic faith. This was no accident but the culmination of Satan’s design, executed by Masons, modernists, and “the chosen lot who can't be named.”
What made this the plan par excellence was that, unlike the Protestants who broke away, this new Ape Church was founded within the Catholic Church itself, almost like a demonic bodysnatcher.
What are the main beliefs of the Synodal Faith?
The founding of the Synodal Church, as I have mentioned, took place at the Second Vatican Council (1962–1965). Prior to this council, Catholic doctrine and worship were expressed with remarkable consistency, particularly through the traditional Roman liturgy codified after the Council of Trent and preserved in the Tridentine Mass. This liturgy clearly presented the Mass as the propitiatory sacrifice of Christ renewed on the altar, offered by a validly ordained priest acting in the person of Christ. The theology, prayers, and ceremonial gestures all reinforced doctrines such as the Real Presence, the sacrificial nature of the Mass, the necessity of the Catholic Church for salvation, and the hierarchical distinction between clergy and laity.
The reforms that followed the Synodal Church’s first council, especially the promulgation of the Novus Ordo Mass by “Pope” Paul VI in 1969, represent not merely disciplinary or linguistic changes but a profound shift in theological emphasis. The synodalists’ new liturgy deliberately deemphasizes the sacrificial character of the Mass and instead presents it primarily as a communal meal or assembly. The removal or alteration of many traditional prayers that explicitly referred to sacrifice, sin, propitiation, and the priest’s unique sacramental role is seen as evidence of this shift. Additionally, the widespread use of the vernacular, the priest facing the people, the introduction of multiple Eucharistic prayers, and the participation of lay ministers are interpreted as steps that blur the distinction between the Catholic priesthood and the laity.
Beyond liturgy, teachings associated with the council contradict prior magisterial doctrine. For example, the council’s teaching on religious liberty—expressed in Dignitatis Humanae—is contradicting earlier papal condemnations of the idea that individuals possess a civil right to practice false religions publicly. Similarly, the new emphasis on ecumenism is incompatible with earlier statements asserting that the Catholic Church alone is the true Church founded by Christ and that non-Catholic religions are objectively in error. The council’s teaching on collegiality also diminises the traditional understanding of papal authority and the hierarchical structure of the Church.
Because Catholic doctrine is understood to be immutable, teachings which appear to contradict previous dogmatic statements cannot legitimately come from the true magisterium of the Catholic Church. From this reasoning, it can be concluded that the authorities responsible for promulgating these reforms—beginning with the council and continuing through the post-conciliar “popes”—must lack true papal authority, and that the council was the beginning of the Synodal Church.
The divergence between pre- and post-conciliar Catholicism is so profound that a four-year-old can see that the latter constitutes a new religious system rather than a legitimate development of the historic Catholic faith. The combination of doctrinal innovations, liturgical reform, and ecumenical orientation represents a rupture with the Catholic Church, making it impossible to regard the post-conciliar establishment as the same Catholic Church that existed before the reforms of the 1960s.
Thus, welcome to the Synodal Church and its false religion!
What do the Synodal Church believe about other religions?
One of the most serious breaks between the Synodal Church and the Catholic Church is its attitude toward other religions. Catholic doctrine taught that the Catholic Church alone is the true Church founded by Christ and the ordinary means of salvation, a teaching consistently affirmed by councils and popes, including the Council of Florence and strongly expressed by Pope Pius IX and Pope Pius XI. Other religions were regarded as containing error, and while individuals outside the Church might be saved by extraordinary means, the Church maintained that non-Catholic religions themselves could not be treated as legitimate paths to God.
The Synodal Church’s official language toward other religions changed drastically and opposes the Roman Catholic Church’s. Documents such as Nostra Aetate and the council’s ecumenical initiatives are seen as presenting non-Christian religions and non-Catholic Christian communities in a far more positive light, emphasizing shared truths and encouraging dialogue rather than conversion. This shift replaced the traditional doctrine that the Catholic faith is uniquely true and necessary, and therefore represents a rupture with the Catholic Church’s earlier and definitive teaching about the exclusivity of the Catholic religion.
Hence, a new church with a new religion.
Does the Synodal Religion have liturgy?
Indeed it has, but the difference between Synodal and Catholic liturgy is not merely stylistic but doctrinal. The traditional liturgy, especially the Tridentine Mass codified after the Council of Trent, is seen as a clear, sacrificial worship that expresses the Catholic teaching of the Mass as the propitiatory sacrifice of Christ offered by a validly ordained priest. The Novus Ordo Mass introduced by “Pope” Paul VI in 1969 as the Synodal Church’s Mass, was fundamentally altered to resemble Protestant services, emphasizing communal meal symbolism over sacrifice, introducing vernacular languages, and multiplying options that dilute doctrinal clarity. Consequently, the Synodal rites represent a break with Catholic tradition and fail to safeguard the faith in the same way the traditional Latin Mass did.
And the Synodal Sacraments?
Another major difference between the Synodal religion and Catholicism concerns the understanding and administration of the sacraments. The Catholic Church carefully preserved the sacramental rites as reliable vehicles of grace, with precise forms and intentions that clearly expressed Catholic doctrine. The traditional rites codified after the Council of Trent emphasized the sacrificial priesthood, the necessity of sacramental grace, and the clear distinction between clergy and laity. Each sacrament contained prayers and ceremonies developed over centuries to safeguard doctrinal clarity and prevent ambiguity.
With the inception of the Synodal Church after the Second Vatican Council many sacramental rites were substantially revised. The reforms promulgated under “Pope” Paul VI introduced new forms and ceremonies for several sacraments, including the Eucharist, Confirmation, Holy Orders, and others. These inventions posing as revisons often removed traditional language referring to sacrifice, sin, priestly power, and sacramental grace, replacing it with wording less precise and more open to Protestant interpretations.
Does the Synodal Church have clergy?
Yes. There is a whole hierarchy of clergy and prelates who use the same titles as their Catholic counterparts, dress in very similar vestments, and occupy former Catholic parishes and chanceries, yet they promote and model a faith that is utterly alien to Catholicism.
These priests act more like facilitators and administrators who organize synodal parish life. They are disinterested in confession, as they do not truly believe in hell or in God’s justice. Their homilies are little more than entertaining motivational talks or calls to whatever social justice fad happens to be in vogue in Satan’s kingdom. Unlike Catholic priests, they do not try to deter their congregations from sin. Instead, they tell people exactly what they want to hear, confirming them comfortably in their sins.
In most cases they do not pray the Liturgy of the Hours, do not live lives of Gospel poverty, and do not promote penance, never mind practice it. They dress like Protestant clergy, especially like Anglicans, and are hardly distinguishable from the laity in appearance. Cassocks are usually foreign to them.
Those higher up in their hierarchy, the so-called bishops and cardinals, have even less to do with Christ. They are more like politicians who promote the satanic United Nations agenda, obey the demands of their ecumenical overlords, and delight in the pursuit of Mammon. Their greatest task is to punish any members of their church who might still have an inkling of Catholicism coursing through their veins.
To both of these groups the only sin is Catholicism, which they persecute with the vehemence of syphilitic Marxist henchmen.
What does one of its Masses typically look like?
This is nearly impossible to answer, as the deviant inventors of this new religion ensured that its foundational documents, promulgated at Vatican II, were ambiguous enough to allow endless experimentation, interpretation, sacrilege, and blasphemy. Keep this in mind when you consider the principle of Lex Orandi, Lex Credendi. Participating in these Masses opens one’s faith to a dark relativism that is in constant flux.
“Priests” will appeal to emotions and novelty to keep attendees engaged and will most likely ensure that the liturgy is pleasing to the majority. In other words, keep it short, face the people, include jokes and personal anecdotes, and say nothing that might disturb the audience’s “safe spaces”. Unless the priest needs to warn them against Catholicism or threaten them if they have dared to act in a Catholic manner.
Instead of sacred Gregorian chant and organ music, you will encounter pale imitations of Protestant contemporary “praise and worship” music, which is itself already a pale imitation of secular popular music.
Another characteristic, arising from the inversion of God’s order, is the overwhelming presence of females in what they would call “key ministries.” From sacrilegious acts committed by abominable “Eucharistic ministers” to the handling of the sacred vessels and female “altar servers.” Yes, in the Synodal Church it is a ladies’ world, the acting out of a kind of transgenderism in the sanctuary.
Other rarities at Synodal Masses are reverence, the laity gravely preparing for the reception of communion through confession and fasting, kneeling to receive, and reception on the tongue. After all, it is “just a communal meal.”
What does Synodal parish life look like?
A smorgasbord of options to distract you from Christ and His religion awaits the synodal “spiritual seeker.” Due to the inversion and perversion of the order and authority that were previously found in Catholic churches, you now have a delectable choice of “ministries” and “groups” to join, including but not limited to: youth groups, little kids’ groups, children’s liturgy ministry, unisex altar servers, care groups, extraordinary minister ministry, music ministry, proclaimers’ ministry, catechesis ministry, neophyte ministry, church decorators’ ministry, collections and ushers ministry, liturgical ministry, coffee and tea ministry, embroidery ministry, choir ministry, technical and sound ministry, first communion ministry, communication and propaganda ministry, ministries to appoint and invent new ministries, and even fly-fishing-for-left-handed-octogenarians ministry.
Yes, folks—with such a host of activities at your fingertips, you will feel very spiritual in the synodal environment in no time!
Where do you find Synodal Churches?
This one is easy. As they are basically squatters, you will find the Synodal Church and its religion practiced and administered in parishes, offices, and structures that actually, and formerly, belonged to the Roman Catholic Church.
You might then ask where the Roman Catholic Church has gone. Well, for all practical purposes, underground. Those who now practice the Faith either do so secretly in Synodal parishes, which is not advised, or in garages, barns, warehouses, and other hidden spaces. The real priests who administer the sacraments in these places are often branded schismatics, heretics, Protestants, and worse, because they have recognized the reality of what the Synodal Church is and have fled its tyranny.
Luckily for them, the Synodal Church is not the Catholic Church, merely a pretender, and therefore threats of schism and excommunication is null and void at worst and laughable at best.
And the Synodal Church’s leadership structures?
The changes in ecclesiology and Church authority introduced by the founding fathers of the Synodal Church after the Second Vatican Council represent another major rupture with traditional Catholic teaching. Historically, the Church understood itself as a visible, hierarchical society founded by Christ, governed by the Pope and the bishops under him, with clear authority flowing from the top down. This understanding was strongly articulated by documents such as Mystici Corporis Christi of Pope Pius XII, which taught that the Catholic Church is the Mystical Body of Christ in a strict and exclusive sense.
The Synodal Church promotes a different understanding of, as they say “doing church”, through teachings on collegiality and the description that the Church of Christ “subsists in” the Catholic Church rather than simply is the Catholic Church. The truth is that the Catholic Church alone is identical with the Church founded by Christ. Additionally, the emphasis on episcopal collegiality in the Synodal Church’s document Lumen Gentium is different to the traditional understanding of papal authority and the hierarchical structure of the Church.
These changes create a new ecclesiology that blurs the boundaries of the true Church and undermines the clarity of its hierarchical governance. Because Catholic doctrine about the nature of the Church is unchangeable, The Synodal Church’s teachings cannot come from the authentic magisterium and therefore proves it is a different church with a different faith.
What does the Synodal Church teach about sin and the Four Last Things?
Boy, have I got good news for you if you are planning to become a member of the Synodal Church. In this religion, which is younger even than Protestantism, there are none of those pesky sins Christ’s Church has taught about for 2000 years. As long as you are “nice,” you have made the grade. Oh yes, and the most important virtue you need to practice is “tolerance.” Very easy.
The Synodal Church welcomes every grave sin. From the Alphabet types, to sins of impurity, murdering babies, apostasy, and the worship of false gods and idols, they are all welcomed and encouraged. You would not have to change one bit to be part of this church. Neat, hey?
As I mentioned before, the only mortal sin you can commit is being Catholic and practicing the true Catholic faith. Basically, hell was made for Catholics. Other than that, you are good.
Because of this there are also no Four Last Things. They might have them in their catechism, but they do not really talk about them or preach about them, as they are considered rigid misunderstandings and mistakes that were taught by Jesus Christ and all the saints, doctors, and theologians up to 1962.
Instead, the Synodal Church offers something much better. A woke Marxist utopia right here on earth, run by a One World Government, where the only religion will be a One World Religion.
To quote Belinda Carlisle’s great hymn, Heaven Is a Place on Earth, erm, “Heaven is a place on Earth.” You betcha!
How do I become a member of the Synodal Church?
Are you in for a treat and more good news! Chances are you are already a member of the Synodal Church if you belong to a Novus Ordo parish, or if any of what you have read so far takes place in your parish.
And if you are not “Catholic” and would like to become a member, just rock up and take the RCIA classes for about six months, where every parish teaches everything and anything it wants except Catholicism, and bingo. You are now a synodalist.
But if you decide to stick to whatever false religion you are currently participating in, the good news is that you do not even have to make the change if it is inconvenient, because the leaders of this new religion have repeatedly taught over the past sixty years that all false religions lead to God and therefore to heaven.
As its former leader, Jorge Bergoglio, famously said, and as I have already mentioned, “Todos, todos, todos.” Yes, everyone is welcome and everyone, everyone, everyone is going to heaven.
Who is the current leader of the Synodal Church?
Currently, a man by the name of Robert Prevost, who goes by the code name Leo XIV, is leading the Synodal Church to perdition. But isn’t he the leader of the Catholic Church, you might ask? This is a common—though understandable—mistake. No, he is not. To conclude, I will leave you with several quotes from the man himself, in which he explains what church he belongs to and what religion he practices:
· First address after his election (8 May 2025)
“We want to be a synodal Church, walking and always seeking peace, charity and closeness.”
Source:
First greeting from the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica, 8 May 2025.
Reported by Reuters and Vatican News.
· Same address emphasizing the Church walking together
“A Church that walks together, that listens, that builds bridges.”
Source:
First papal address, 8 May 2025.
· Address to the Synod Secretariat (2025)
“Synodality is a style, an attitude that helps us to be Church.”
Source:
Meeting with the Ordinary Council of the General Secretariat of the Synod of Bishops.
Vatican News coverage.
· On listening within the Church
“The Church grows when all listen to one another under the guidance of the Holy Spirit.” [Their “spirit” is not the Holy Ghost- Ed.]
Source:
Address to synodal leaders and participatory bodies during the Jubilee events in Rome.
· Jubilee of Synodal Teams (2025)
“Being a synodal Church means recognizing that truth is not possessed but sought together.”
Source:
Address during the Jubilee of Synodal Teams and Participatory Bodies.
Reported by Catholic News Agency.
· On walking together as the People of God [“People of God” is another popular but misleading term used by Synodalists-Ed.]
“We need God and each other… the joy of walking together.”
Source:
Meeting with synodal teams and diocesan participatory structures.
· On the nature of synodality
“Synodality will not come with a template for every place.”
Source:
Address to synod coordinators and leaders.
Catholic News Agency report.
· On synodality as conversion
“It is a conversion to a spirit of being Church.”
Source:
Same address on implementing synodality in different cultures.
· On discernment together
“The synodal path calls us to discern together what the Spirit says to the Churches.”
Source:
Address connected with the ongoing Synod implementation process.
· On the Church’s synodal journey and unity
“The synodal journey of the Catholic Church is and must be ecumenical.”
Source:
Address to representatives of other Christian communities.
Reported by ACI Africa.
· On the participation of all the faithful
“Synodality reminds us that all the baptized are called to participate in the life and mission of the Church.”
Source:
Message to diocesan synodal teams.
· On the Church learning to listen
“A synodal Church is a Church that listens before it speaks.”
Source:
Remarks to pastoral and synodal leaders in Rome.
To conclude…
Basically, the Synodal Church and what it teaches is whatever you want it to be, as long as it is not Catholicism. And of course, as long as you listen, dialogue, journey, and decide together what truth is, repeating the process to the nauseating point of wanting to vomit, you are good.
Our Lady, Co-redemptrix, pray for us…
Our Lady, Mediatrix of all Graces, pray for us…
Viva Christo Rey!
Also Read:
Final Synodal Report Announces Next Phase in Eradicating the Priesthood
According to Catholic Theologian Christ’s Kingship Undermines Second Vatican Council
I must add. The Synodal church is NOT:
1. One. The Synodal church has rejected everything Catholic. It embraces every “religion”. It doesn’t even have a uniform liturgy. Every parish and every priest remain free to invent novelty. Go to a different parish in the same town and it’s a totally different experience. How can this be unity?
2. Holy. It’s full of homosexuals and pedophiles It allows public adulterers full “membership” privileges
3. Catholic (or universal). There’s not even a common language. The liturgy in one country is totally unintelligible to someone from a different country.
4. Apostolic. Read Romans 1. In fact read any of the epistles. The apostolic teaching are not just ignored. They’re ridiculed.
These are the 4 signs that identify the true church build upon Jesus Christ. If there are 40,000 different Protestant religions there are different religions in practice for every diocese and parish worldwide.
The true Catholic faith resides in the Mass of the Ages and the 20 centuries of organic development of doctrine and dogma. I can take my pre 1962 missal and attend a Mass anywhere in the world and follow along. I don’t need to speak the vernacular language of that country.
And what exactly is the “vernacular” of any country. Is it English or Spanish in the US? Switzerland? 4 languages.
Everything is visible
Nothing is seen