• The word synodality as well as collegiality, communion and co-responsibility are code words in Conciliar Church parlance for the democratization of the Church. Fr. Karl Rahner spelled it out straightforwardly: “We could hope for a true democratization of the Church. … Democratization … should be understood as a key for integrating the Church into the temporal and pluralist society, the existential and permanent substractum for the formation of the Church.” (1)
  

At right, Karl Rahner: ‘Democratization is key to integrate the Church into society’

• It is ironic that while the Bishops preach democracy in the Church and demand that inferiors should have all types of liberty and participation in decisions, they nonetheless obey the strict commands of the dictator Pope. They are not free to speak for themselves. The democratic liberty they preach is the opposite of the reality in which they live.
  
• As democracy is dying all over the world in the civil sphere and people are looking for a way to replace it, the Conciliar Church arrives on the scene breathless and boasting that it is democratic, trying to appear in style… It is a bit late; democracy is yesterday’s trend that has almost completely lost its appeal.
  
• Finally, let us not forget that the Catholic Church is essentially monarchical by divine institution. It is a Monarchy composed of the Sovereign Pontiff, the Hierarchy and the faithful. Pope St. Pius X in his letter Ex quo of December 26, 1910, condemned those who deny that the Catholic Church has been a Monarchy from her inception (DR 2147a, cf. 1822, 1825, 1827, 1831). When someone tries to destroy this order, he falls into either schism or heresy.
  

• It is an extensive reform: “We ask all the local Churches to continue their daily journey with a synodal method of consultation and discernment, specifying concrete methods and formative ways to achieve a tangible synodal conversion in the various ecclesial realities (parishes, institutes of consecrated life, societies of apostolic life, groups of the faithful, dioceses, bishops’ conferences, regrouping of Churches etc.).” (§ 9)
  
  
• Synodality is a constitutive dimension of the Church: “With this document the Assembly recognizes and testifies that synodality, a constitutive dimension of the Church, is already part of the experience of many of our communities. At the same time, it suggests roads to walk, practices to enforce and horizons to explore.” (§ 11)
  
  
• It has multiple liturgies: “Deepening the understanding of the link between liturgy and synodality will help all Christian communities, in the plurality of their cultures and traditions, to adopt styles of celebration that manifest the face of the synodal Church.” (§ 27)
  
  
• It has an obligatory method: “Synodality is the walk together of Christians with Christ toward the Kingdom of God, united with all mankind; oriented toward the mission it includes gathering in assemblies at the different levels of the Church’s life, mutual listening, dialogue, community discernment, the formation of consensus as an expression of Christ’s presence in the Spirit, and the adoption of a decision in a differentiated co-responsibility.” (§ 28)
  
  
• “The synodal perspective, while touching the rich spiritual patrimony of Tradition, contributes to renewing its forms: a prayer open to participation, a discernment lived together, a missionary energy that is born from sharing and radiates as service.” (§ 44)
  
  
• It has a changeable theology: “Church synodality requires theologians to make theology in a synodal way, promoting among themselves the ability to listen, dialogue, discern and integrate the multiplicity and variety of requests and contributions.” (§ 67)
  
  
• It is a Church of the people for the people: “The synodal Assembly wants the People of God to have a greater voice in the choice of bishops.” (§70)
  

A session of the Synod 2024

• “In particular, some concrete demands emerge from the synodal process that need to be responded to in an adequate way in different contexts: a) greater participation of lay men and women in all phases of decision-making processes; b) broader access of lay men and women to positions of responsibility in dioceses and church institutions …; d) an increase in the number of qualified lay men and women who perform the role of judge in canonical processes …” (§ 77)
  
  
• It moves toward including all religions: “On this road a synodal Church commits itself to walk, in the various places where it lives, with believers of other religions and with persons of other convictions, sharing freely the joy of the Gospel and gratefully welcoming their respective gifts: to build together as brothers and sisters in a spirit of mutual exchange and help, justice, fraternity, peace and inter-religious dialogue.” (§ 123)
  

The Parable of the Cockle amid the Wheat
From The Training of the Apostles Vol. III
Fr Henry James Coleridge, 1884, Ch. IX, pp 148-159
St. Matt. xiii. 24–28, 36–53
Story of the Gospels, § 59-62
Sung at the Fifth Sunday after Epiphany and in one of the “spare” Sundays before Advent.
[Taken from here and here.]

Quote:‘Another parable He proposed to them, saying, The Kingdom of Heaven is likened to a man that sowed good seed in his field. But while men were asleep, his enemy came and oversowed cockle among the wheat, and went his way. And when the blade was sprung up, and had brought forth fruit, then appeared also the cockle.

‘And the servants of the good man of the house coming said to him, Sir, didst thou not sow good seed in thy field? whence then hath it cockle? And he said to them, an enemy hath done this. And the servants said to him, Wilt thou that we go and gather it up?

‘And he said, No, lest perhaps gathering up the cockle, you root up the wheat also together with it. Suffer both to grow until the harvest, and in the time of the harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather up first the cockle, and bind it into bundles to burn, but the wheat gather ye into my barn.’

Quote:‘Then having sent away the multitudes, He came to the house, and His disciples came to Him, saying, Expound to us the parable of the cockle of the field.

‘Who made answer, and said to them, He that soweth the good seed is the Son of Man. And the field is the world, and the good seed are the children of the Kingdom, and the cockle are the children of the wicked one. And the enemy that soweth them is the devil. But the harvest is the end of the world, and the reapers are the angels. Even as cockle therefore is gathered up and burned with fire, so shall it be at the end of the world.

‘The Son of Man shall send His angels, and they shall gather out of His Kingdom all scandals and them that work iniquity, and shall cast them into the furnace, there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. Then shall the just shine as the sun in the Kingdom of their Father. He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.’

From an email dated November 9, 2024 [machine translated from the original Spanish]:

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A portion of this 2006 article written for The Remnant Newspaper was reprinted on that site November 5, 2024. 
The entire article is presented below in its entirety.

APOCALYPSE NOW! Global Democracy & the Rise of the Antichrist
by Solange Hertz