Synodality as Apostasy: Conciliar Sect’s Betrayal of Divine Governance
Vatican News portal (November 7, 2025) reports on antipope Leo XIV’s address to the Italian Conference of Major Superiors, praising “synodality” as a tool to avoid “stagnation” in governance and inspire hope through “ecclesial discernment” and “accountability.” The article celebrates religious communities embracing “growing interculturality” and “forms of governance in the Provinces of a synodal Church,” citing the 2024 Synod on Synodality’s final document.
Demolition of Hierarchical Authority
The antipope’s insistence on “sincere discussion, sharing, and fraternal correction” to avoid “self-referential tendencies” constitutes a direct assault on the divine constitution of the Church. Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors condemns the notion that “the Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization” (Error 80). The conciliar sect’s obsession with “rotation of responsibilities” mocks the perpetuitas (permanence) of ecclesiastical office established by Christ, Who appointed Peter as rock (Matthew 16:18), not a revolving committee.
“Fidelity to the Church guides and enlightens the involvement of the brothers… ensuring transparency and fostering that mutual openness.”
This bureaucratic language reduces governance to corporate management, erasing the potestas jurisdictionis (power of jurisdiction) bestowed by Holy Orders. St. Pius X’s Lamentabili Sane condemns the error that “the Church listening cooperates… with the Church teaching” (Proposition 6), precisely the heresy promoted here. True authority derives from Christ, not consensus-seeking assemblies condemned by Pope Pius VI in Auctorem Fidei (1794) as “heretical, scandalous, and schismatic.”
Synodality: Mask for Modernist Revolt
The article’s praise for “interconnected processes” and “evaluation of decisions” exposes the neo-church’s fundamental rejection of dogma. Pius X’s Pascendi Dominici Gregis (§26) decries Modernists who claim “the Church’s dogmas… are to be harmonized with science and history” through evolution. By urging religious to adapt governance to “the continuous novelty of situations,” the antipope enacts the Modernist axiom condemned by St. Pius X: “Truth is no more immutable than man himself, since it evolved with him, in him, and through him” (Lamentabili Sane, Proposition 58).
The invocation of St. Augustine’s Soliloquies is particularly sacrilegious. Augustine’s vision of seeking God “together” presupposes submission to the magisterium, not the anarchic “co-responsibility” promoted here. The Doctor of Grace wrote in Contra epistulam Manichaei: “Ego vero Evangelio non crederem, nisi me catholicae Ecclesiae commoveret auctoritas” (I would not believe the Gospel unless the authority of the Catholic Church moved me). Synodality replaces this authority with the dictatorship of collective opinion.
Silence as Heresy
Nowhere does the text mention the Regnum Christi (Kingship of Christ) or the duty to convert nations—the omission of the supernatural is its gravest error. Pius XI’s Quas Primas (1925) declares: “When once men recognize… that Christ is King… society will at last receive the great blessings of real liberty, well-ordered discipline, peace, and harmony.” In contrast, the conciliar sect reduces religion to social engineering, “harmonizing gifts” while denying the Kingship of Christ over individuals and states.
The article’s call to “strip away non-essential structures” continues Vatican II’s destruction of religious life, rebuked by Pius XII’s Sacra Virginitas: “It would be disastrous if… the sacred walls of the cloister were to fall.” True religious governance requires obedience to immutable rules, not the “dynamic life and faith” praised here—a code for doctrinal relativism.
Conclusion: False Shepherds Feeding on Ruins
Antipope Leo XIV’s speech exemplifies the apostasy foretold in 2 Thessalonians 2:3-4. By replacing divine authority with synodal processes, the conciliar sect fulfills Pius IX’s warning against those who “deny the Church’s right to govern” (Syllabus, Error 19). The faithful must recognize this structure as the “synagoga Satanae” (synagogue of Satan) described in Pascendi (§3) and flee its false shepherds. Only by returning to the Lex Credendi (Law of Belief) of Trent and the pre-1958 magisterium can Christ’s true reign be restored.
Source:
Pope to religious: Avoid 'stagnation' in governance, inspire hope in your brothers (vaticannews.va)
Article date: 07.11.2025