The National Catholic Register (CNA) reports that the General Secretariat of the “Synod on Synodality” has published a document titled “Recollecting” on July 27, 2026, directing diocesan teams to assess their implementation of synodality ahead of a planned 2028 “ecclesial assembly.” The “cardinal” secretary-general of the synod, Mario Grech, frames this bureaucratic stock-taking as “an experience of gratitude and truth,” demanding local Churches recount their “synodal journey” since October 2021. This latest maneuver confirms the conciliar sect’s relentless drive to replace the monarchical constitution of the Church, established by Christ, with a democratic, Protestantized parody of governance.
The Synodal Chimera: A Modernist Usurpation of Divine Constitution
The very term “synodality” is a theological novelty unknown to the Catholic lexicon before the conciliar revolution. It signifies the hermeneutic of rupture masquerading as development. The Church of Christ is not a “synodal” body but a monarchical society (societas perfecta monarchica), constituted by divine right with the Roman Pontiff as its supreme head, possessing plenitudo potestatis (fullness of power) over the universal Church. Pope Pius XI, in Quas Primas, teaches that Christ’s Kingdom “extends not only to Catholic nations… but His reign encompasses also all non-Christians, so that most truly the entire human race is subject to the authority of Jesus Christ.” This authority is exercised hierarchically, not collegially in the modernist sense of a permanent deliberative assembly.
The “Synod on Synodality” is an institutionalized rebellion against the divine constitution of the Church. It apes the Protestant model of synods and the Masonic principle of “liberty, equality, fraternity,” dissolving the potestas ordinis and potestas jurisdictionis into a vague “walking together” of the “People of God”—a conciliar category that deliberately obscures the distinction between the teaching Church (Ecclesia docens) and the learning Church (Ecclesia discens). As the Syllabus of Errors (Pope Pius IX) condemns: “The Church is not a true and perfect society, entirely free… but it appertains to the civil power to define what are the rights of the Church” (Error 19). Today, the conciliar sect substitutes “civil power” with the “consensus of the baptized,” making the Church a democracy of opinion.
Bureaucratic Newspeak: “Recollecting” as Ideological Enforcement
The document “Recollecting” employs the sterile language of corporate management—evaluation, implementation, resistance, obstacles, unsuccessful attempts—devoid of any supernatural vocabulary. There is no mention of sanctifying grace, the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, the salvation of souls, or the rights of Christ the King. “Cardinal” Grech’s assertion that “evaluation is not a technical exercise but an experience of gratitude and truth” is a blasphemous inversion. Truth in the Catholic sense is adaequatio intellectus et rei conformed to divine revelation, not a sociological summary of “journeys.” Gratitude is due to God for the immutable deposit of faith, not for a process of “renewal” that has produced only apostasy.
The demand to report on “resistance to renewal” exposes the totalitarian nature of the conciliar sect. In the language of the revolution, fidelity to Tradition is diagnosed as pathology. Pope St. Pius X, in Lamentabili Sane Exitu, condemned the modernist proposition that “Christ did not proclaim any specific, all-encompassing doctrine suitable for all times and peoples, but rather initiated a certain religious movement” (Prop. 59). The “Synod on Synodality” is the operationalization of this condemned error: a permanent revolution where doctrine is fluid, subject to the “sensus fidelium” manufactured by facilitated discussions.
The Vacant See and the Usurpation of Authority
This entire apparatus operates under the gaze of the antipope Leo XIV (Robert Prevost), the latest in the line of usurpers beginning with John XXIII. As demonstrated by the theological arguments of St. Robert Bellarmine and the canonists Wernz and Vidal, a manifest heretic ipso facto loses the papacy. The conciliar “popes,” by their public profession of religious liberty, false ecumenism, and the new ecclesiology of Vatican II, have defected from the Catholic faith. Cum ex Apostolatus Officio (Pope Paul IV) declares the promotion of a heretic “null, void, and of no effect.” Therefore, the “General Secretariat of the Synod” possesses zero canonical authority. It is a paramasonic committee managing the liquidation of the visible structures of the Church.
The “ecclesial assembly” planned for 2028 is not a gathering of the Church but a conventicle of the neo-church. Its four stages—”Recollecting,” “Interpreting,” “Orienting,” “Celebrating”—mirror the Masonic degrees of initiation, culminating in a “Celebration” of the new anthropocentric religion. The Syllabus condemns the error that “The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization” (Error 80). The synodal path is this reconciliation, enshrined as permanent institutional practice.
Fatima and the Diversion from the True Crisis
The article’s publication date, July 27, 2026, and the focus on a 2028 horizon, fit the pattern of the false Fatima apparatus analyzed in the theological objections: a diversion from the apostasy within. The conciliar sect obsesses over “synodal processes” and “ecclesial assemblies” while the abomination of desolation (Matt. 24:15) sits in the holy place. The “miracle of the sun” at Fatima was a natural phenomenon exploited to legitimize a message that demands “hyper-acts” (consecration of Russia) while ignoring the real consecration required: the restoration of the Catholic priesthood, the Latin Mass, and the Social Kingship of Christ. The “Synod on Synodality” is the Stage 3 of the Fatima operation: “Takeover of the narrative by modernists, concealment of the Third Secret, ecumenical reinterpretation.”
No Salvation in the Conciliar Sect
The faithful must understand that participation in this “synodal journey” is participation in the great apostasy. The “narrative reports” and “letters to other Churches” demanded by “Recollecting” are acts of collaboration with a false church. Canon 188.4 of the 1917 Code stipulates that an office becomes vacant by “public defection from the Catholic faith.” Every “bishop” and “priest” who submits these reports, who facilitates “listening sessions,” who speaks the language of “synodality,” publicly defects. They are ipso facto deprived of jurisdiction.
The only “assessment” required of a Catholic is the examination of conscience before the tribunal of Christ the King. The only “assembly” that matters is the Ecclesia Militans gathered around the valid Mass and the true bishops who preserve the traditio without admixture. As Pius XI proclaimed: “Peace is only possible in the Kingdom of Christ” (Quas Primas). The conciliar sect offers not peace, but the pax Romana of the Antichrist—a managed decline into the one-world religion.
Reject the “Synod on Synodality.” Reject its documents, its vocabulary, its timeline, and its false shepherds. Non praevalebunt.
Source:
Vatican Calls for Assessment of Synodality Implementation Ahead of 2028 Assembly (ncregister.com)
Date: 27.07.2026