33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time November 17, 2019 Joseph P. O. Box 365 117 South Main St. Loreauville, 70552 (337) 229-4254 FAX (337) 229-4255 Rev. Barry F. Crochet, Pastor Rev. Godwin Nzeh CMF, Associate Pastor Deacon Christopher Doumit, Pastoral Assistant [email protected] stjosephparishonline.org MASS SCHEDULE Saturday Vigil Mass — 4:00 p.m. Sunday — 7:00 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. [9:00 a.m. at Our Lady of Victory] Monday, Wednesday and Friday — 6:45 a.m. at Our Lady of Victory Tuesday and Thursday — 5:30 p.m. at Saint Joseph Thursday — 10:00 a.m. at Saint Catherine Apartments First Saturday — 8:00 a.m. at Our Lady of Victory SACRAMENT OF CONFESSION Every Saturday from 3:00 p.m. to 3:40 p.m. and one-half hour before all weekday Masses, or by appointment during office hours. OFFICE HOURS Monday through Thursday — 8:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. RECEPTIONIST/BOOKKEEPER/CEMETERIAN Mrs. Gail Borel — [email protected] RECORDS CLERK/PLANT MANAGER Gladys Lasseigne RELIGIOUS EDUCATION Mrs. Sherry Hebert — [email protected] MUSIC MINISTRY Mrs. Janice Carboni & Mr. Michael Arceneaux (Saturday — 4:00 p.m.) Miss Amber DeMarco (Sunday — 10:30 a.m.) BUILDING AND MAINTENANCE Mr. Ken Theriot and John Thomas Neuville EUCHARISTIC ADORATION The chapel is open every day from 6:00 a.m.-10:00 p.m. FUNERALS Please contact the office prior to contacting the funeral home. Funerals are celebrated in the morning of Tuesdays through Saturdays no later than 11:00 a.m. A Funeral Vigil is celebrated on the preceding evening at 6:00 p.m. SACRAMENT OF BAPTISM Baptism classes are held on the first Tuesday of the month at 6:45 p.m. in the rectory. Baptism are held on the second and fourth Saturday of each month at 10:00 a.m. Please contact the parish office for scheduling. Grant us, we pray, O Lord our God, the SACRAMENT OF MATRIMONY Couples must contact the pastor at least six months prior to the constant gladness of being devoted to You, proposed wedding date. SACRAMENT OF ANOINTING OF THE SICK for it is full and lasting happiness to serve Contact the parish office to schedule a pastoral visit. SAFE ENVIRONMENT with constancy the Author of all that is good. Contact the parish office. Please pray for our parish family members who are sick: We invite you to submit the names of people who are in need of our prayers.

Jess Koch, Lisa Adcock, Kendall Romero, Alicia Durand, Janice Poirrier, Inez Barras, Helen Bastian, Butch and Debbie White, Stacy, Joseph Huval, Marie Lee Prioux, Troy Barras, Kelly Guy Thibodeaux, Lydia May, Louis “CoCo” Landry Jr., Jerry Ransonet, Jessica Scott, Mary Smith, Brian Thibodeaux, Cora Fruge, Jimmy Clifton, Rowena Borel, Megan Scully, Maxine Laviolette, Jackie Savoy, Barry Thibodeaux, Doris “Boutte” Latiolais, Dawn Derouen, Matil LasSalle Romero, Falyn Sonnier, Barras, Michele Dugas Burke, Paul Crochet, Craig Breaux, Helen Rickey Sonnier, Caline Provost, Katie Boutte, Patricia Freyou, Simon, Ross Rouly, Jamie Brady, Holly LeBlanc, Faye Gary, Tony Lecia Broussard, Jason Walker, Ronald Albert Sr., Michael Berard, Glenn Romero, Stuart Sandoz, Duffy Domingue, Eric Theriot, Ken Adcock, Roshondra Nora, Noah Abraham, Jimmy Clements, David Louviere, Hayden Ransonet, Trevor Louviere, LeBlanc, Chad Borel, Sophie Bonin, Ashley Hebert, Stephen Vanessa Courville, Wayne Louviere, Austin Willett, Willey Dugas, Bonnie Hebert, Jon-Luke Lancon.

Please note that our office will purge the names on our sick list every quarter. We ask anyone who lists someone’s name to please call the parish office to add or remove a name. November 10, 2019 Mass Intentions — 11/16-11/22 Regular Sunday Offering Envelopes (69%) $ 4,373.00 Saturday 4:00 p.m. StJo — Earl Mestayer, Skip Schneider, Lolly Harbin, Breaux and Regular Sunday Offering Loose (31%) $ 1,948.00 Bobby and Mark Braquet and Cathy Delcambre Families, Lenwood $ 9,136.00 Braquet Latiolais, Ken Segura, Ossie Delcambre, Emus Borel, Tony and Rita Weekly Budget Romero, Jr., Irving Judice, Nicholas Chataignier, Deacon Jay Bergeron, Regular Collection Total $ 6,321.00 LeBlanc, Jr. family, Nicholas LeBlanc, Sr. Archbishop Harry Flynn, Sue Crochet. Difference -$ 2,815.00 Family, Sam and Glo Delcambre and 10:30 a.m. StJo — John Mullican, Landry Completion Loan Balance $ 88,446.25 Family, Aymar “Poon” and Beulah Dugas, and Ryan Family, Loto Louviere, Jr. and $ 85.00 Ide Dugas Family, Alexis Laviolette Family, Gam and Velma Gondron, Sylvia Completion Collection Wayne LeBlanc, Lily Mae and Alvin Thibodeaux, Phillip and Neil Hebert, Insurance Balance 2019-2020 $ 28,116.00 LeBlanc, Otto Sr. and Laurence Girouard, Shelton Joseph and Ella Mae Desormeaux Insurance Collection $ 162.00 Terradot Family, Theresa Girouard Allen, Freyou, Alvin and Faye Tauzin, Edmonia Tasey and Becky Eldridge, Clarence Tauzin, Marcel and Nadage Broussard, 126 of 1314 families used collection envelopes (10% participation). Champagne Family, Robert Prados Family Jimmy Eldridge, Elaine Plessala and 182 of 1314 families attended Mass this weekend (14% attendance). and Breaux Family, Chad Romero, Deyna Eldridge Family, Sylvia Thibodeaux, Thanks to those who practice Sacrificial Giving and give Champagne, Audrey Crochet, Jordan Cheryl Segura, Jeanette “Jan” Crochet, of their time, talent and treasure as an act of profound Christian stewardship. Prince and Special Intention, Joseph Pliny Walet Family, Agnes Breaux, Angus Dressel, Kimberly Decuir, Decuir and and Florence “Flo” Mestayer, Louis and The Sanctuary Lamp is burning for Dugas Family, J.O. Sr. and Marie Neuville Elbay Judice, Boots Thomas, Joe and Ted Neuville Family, Barry Eldridge Boudreaux and Justin Boudreaux, L.J. and Lucy L. Trahan, Shelton Joseph and Ned Broussard Families, Melvin Anita Grivat and Parents, Louis Landry, Ella Mae Desormeaux Freyou Dugas, Roy Sr. and Gladys Berard, Forbus Una and Otto Landry, Widley Louviere, and Myrtle Mestayer Sr., Granger and Anita and Lennet Grivat, Antoine Judice The Vocation Chalice is in Mestayer Family, Ronald, Sr. and Mildred Families, Suzette B. Judice, Kelly Louviere, The Adoration Chapel. Gonsoulin, Leed and Mabel Gondron, Butsy Walet, Sandra Angelle, Glenn Please pray for vocations. If you would like to have the vocation chalice Fred Laviolette, Louis and Grace Moran, Angelle, Percy Granger, Deacon Jay Virginia Frioux, Lennet and Marie Bergeron, Archbishop Harry Flynn, Sue in your home please call the rectory office at 229-4254. Antoinette Crochet, Clenie and Eve Crochet. Segura and Billie, Sally Domingue, Cabrol Monday 6:45 a.m. OLV — Landry and The Bi-Monthly Statue is in the home of and Domingue Family, Lorraine Huval, Champagne Families Ancestors and Ashley and Jeanne Stiles Preston and Agnes Huval, Martha Descendants and Souls in Purgatory, Pope, Escagne Rodriguez, Lloyd Broussard, Priest, Religious, Deacon Jay Bergeron, The Weekly Statue is in the home of Claude and Felicie Granger, Nancy Archbishop Harry Flynn, Sue Crochet. Tim and Becky Edler Broussard, Clarence and Hilda Landry, Tuesday 5:30 p.m. StJo — Landry and Antoine Judice Families, Suzette B. Judice, Champagne Families Ancestors and Saint Joseph Altar Candles are burning for Kelly Louviere, Sylvia Thibodeaux, Francis Descendants and Souls in Purgatory, Pope, Pliny Walet Family and Agnes Breaux and Art Mazerole, Billie and Armance Priest, Religious, Deacon Jay Bergeron, Barrilleaux, Will and Lily Roberts, Collins Archbishop Harry Flynn, Sue Crochet. Gwen Borel, Wayne “Butch” Judice and Doris Louviere, Kay Dooley and Wednesday 6:45 a.m. OLV — Clark Perry M. Judice and Jesse Judice William and Dolores Dooley, Deacon Jay Provost, John Michael Steiner, Landry and Charles and Jackie Poirrier Bergeron, Archbishop Harry Flynn, Sue Champagne Families Ancestors and Deyna Champagne and Chad Romero Crochet. Descendants and Souls in Purgatory, Pope, Sunday 7:00 a.m. StJo — Gwen Borel, Priest, Religious, Deacon Jay Bergeron, Flowers on the Altar are in loving memory of Sis and Maurice ProvostTracey Defelice Archbishop Harry Flynn, Sue Crochet. Guilbeaux, Maude Granger and Mr. and Thursday 5:30 p.m. StJo — Ashlyn Deceased parishioners of Mrs. Francis Granger, Clark, Mary Ann Pellerin Family and Jessie Paege Family, Saint Joseph Church Parish and David Provost, John Michael Steiner, Landry and Champagne Families Jay Gonsoulin Family, Paul Sonnier Family Ancestors and Descendants and Souls in Please pray for our priests, and Clyde Warfel Family, Sandra P. Purgatory, Pope, Priest, Religious, Deacon Horton, Loto and Leah Louviere, Antoine Jay Bergeron, Archbishop Harry Flynn, seminarians, deacons and religious “Boy” LeBlanc Family, Mr. and Mrs. Sue Crochet. Eternal Father, we lift up to You these special sons and Johnny Albert Sr., Champagne and Landry Friday 6:45 a.m. OLV — Landry and Families Ancestors and Descendants and Champagne Families Ancestors and daughters. Sanctify them. Heal and guide them. Mold them Souls in Purgatory, Pope, Priest, Religious, Descendants and Souls in Purgatory, Pope, into the likeness of Your Son, Jesus, the Eternal High Priest. Maude Granger and Mr. and Mrs. Francis Priest, Religious, Judice and Walet Family, May their lives be pleasing to You. In Jesus’ Name we pray. Granger, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Granger, Dr. Deacon Jay Bergeron, Archbishop Harry Amen. Raymond Schneider, Elaine Schneider, Flynn, Sue Crochet. Rev. Cedric Sonnier/Rev. Joseph Tetlow, SJ November 16 Dcn. Robert Klingman/Sr. Vera Vives, O. Carm November 17 MINISTERS FOR NEXT WEEK Rev. Joseph Stemmann/Riley Maturin November 18 Date Extraordinary Dcn. Dennis Landry/Sr. Christina Marie Griggs, O. Carm and Readers Eucharistic Altar Servers Rev. Michael Sucharski, SVD/Stephen Melancon November 19 Time Ministers Dcn. Barry LeBlanc/Sr. Helen Ann Vinton, SP Noah Smith November 23 Victoria Landry Debbie Oubre Very Rev. Jared Suire, VE/Chad Peltier Dominic Smith November 20 4:00 p.m. Myrna Landry Janet Thibodeaux Dcn. Josh LeBlanc/Sr. Jeanette Bernhardt, OP Bella Smith Rev. Brian Taylor/Connor Poirrier November 24 Sandy Sonnier Lynn Delcambre November 21 Kylie Kay Mestayer Dcn. Eugene LeBoeuf/Sr. Fatima Aphiri, OLS 7:00 a.m. Brianna Oubre Lottie Frioux Rev. Joseph Tetlow, SJ/Seth Ransonet Sloane Judice Shelly Foreman Jack David Martin November 22 10:30 a.m. Dcn. Tim Ledet/Sr. Anthony Castellani, OLS Emily Bonin Sheila Prioux Avery Bernaud Monday, November 18, 2019 Sunday, December 8, 2019 Sunday, December 29, 2019 Knights of Columbus Second Sunday of Advent Feast of the Holy Family

Thursday, November 21, 2019 Confirmation Class — Last Class Monday, December 30, 2019 Patriotic — 6:00 p.m. Confirmation Rehearsal Priests vs. Seminarians Saint Joseph Church Immediately after the 10:30 a.m. Mass Basketball Game — 6:30 p.m. Cathedral Carmel School Gym Sunday, November 24, 2019 Monday, December 9, 2019 Lafayette, Louisiana Solemnity of Christ the King Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception [Last Sunday of the Church Year] [NOT a Holy Day of Obligation] Tuesday, December 31, 2019 Mass — 6:45 a.m. Weekday Mass — 6:345 a.m. November 24 —November 28, 2019 Our Lady of Victory Church Saint Joseph Church Thanksgiving Holidays NO Religion Classes Tuesday, December 10, 2019 Solemnity of Mary Vigil Mass — 4:00 p.m. Parish Pastoral Council Meeting Saint Joseph Church Thursday, November 28, 2019 Saint Joseph Rectory — 6:00 p.m. [Holy Day of Obligation] Thanksgiving Day Mass — 8:00 a.m. Sunday, December 15, 2019 Wednesday, January 1, 2020 Saint Joseph Church Third Sunday of Advent Solemnity of Mary, Mother God Offices Are Closed [Holy Day of Obligation] Confirmation Mass — 10:30 a.m. Saturday, November 30, 2019 Saint Joseph Church Mass — 7:00 a.m. Christmas in the Village Saint Joseph Church Loreauville Town Hall — 6:00 p.m. Monday, December 16, 2019 Knights of Columbus — 7:00 p.m. Mass — 9:00 a.m. Sunday, December 1, 2019 Saint Theresa Hall Our Lady of Victory Church First Sunday of Advent [First Sunday of the Church Year] Thursday, December 19, 2019 Friday, January 3, 2020 Patriotic Rosary — 6:00 p.m. First Friday — The Most Holy Name of Jesus Tuesday, December 3, 2019 Saint Joseph Church Mass — 6:45 a.m. Advent Parish Mission Our Lady of Victory Church Saint Joseph Church — 6:30 p.m. Sunday, December 22, 2019 Fourth Sunday of Advent Saturday, January 4, 2020 Wednesday, December 4, 2019 First Saturday Advent Parish Mission Tuesday, December 24, 2019 Memorial of Saint Elizabeth Seton Saint Joseph Church — 6:30 p.m. Christmas Eve Mass — 8:00 a.m. Weekday Mass — 6:45 a.m. Our Lady of Victory Church Thursday, December 5, 2019 Saint Joseph Church Advent Parish Mission Sunday, January 5, 2020 Saint Joseph Church — 6:30 p.m. Christmas Vigil Mass — 4:00 p.m. Solemnity of the Epiphany of the Lord Saint Joseph Church Friday, December 6, 2019 [Holy Day of Obligation] Sunday, January 5, 2020 First Friday Baptism of the Lord Mass — 6:45 a.m. Wednesday, December 25, 2019 Our Lady of Victory Church Solemnity of the Nativity of Our Lord [Holy Day of Obligation] Saturday, December 7, 2019 First Saturday Christmas Mass at Dawn — 7:00 a.m. Mass — 8:00 a.m. Saint Joseph Church Our Lady of Victory Church Christmas Day Mass — 9:00 a.m. Confirmation Class — Day of Recollection Our Lady of Victory Church

Catholic Daughers and Christmas Day Mass — 10:30 a.m. Knights of Columbus Social Saint Joseph Church Saint Theresa Hall — 5:00 p.m. The Daughters of Saint Paul are back with a new tour and a new lineup for the Advent Parish Mission He is Born Christmas Concert!

for the Be inspired by the voices and stories Village of Loreauville of the Sisters as well as by the sounds of Christmas carols new and old, Presented by bringing joy and peace to all who listen! Rev. Garrett Savoie Pastor of Ticket and Seating Options: Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Church Premium Seating for Sponsors New Iberia, Louisiana (Closest to stage), Priority seating at $50 per ticket, and General admission: December 3-5, 2019 at 6:30 p.m. $35 per ticket for adults, 17 & under $15.00 per ticket Our Lady of Victory Church No physical tickets will be issued. Check in required at the venue. Confessions heard each evening Ushers will help you find your seats. during the Mission

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Jon- Luke Patrick Lancon the 2½ year old son of Elby and Dana Gachassin Lancon has been diagnosed with potentially life-threatening health issues

This Thursday, 21 November during the 5:30 p.m. weekday Mass along with our regular Mass Intentions we will include him as a Special Mass Intention

Everybody is now a Prayer Warrior

We will also ask for the intercession of Charlene Richard, the “Little Cajun Saint”

Prayer to Charlene Richard (1947-1959) Prayer for Beatification

Charlene, when you were only twelve years old, Our Father in Heaven, you showed heroic faith, hope, and love; moved by the Holy Spirit of Jesus Christ, dying of leukemia, you joined yourself to Jesus on His Cross Your Son and our Savior, and offered your intense pain for others. we lift up our hearts to You You thereby echoed Saint Paul’s words in Colossians 1:24: and ask that, if it be Your will, Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I am filling up You grant our request. what is lacking in the afflictions of Christ on behalf of His Body, the Church. May Your servant and native of Louisiana, Charlene Marie Richard, Charlene, I believe you are with God. be raised to sainthood by the Holy Father, Please ask our Heavenly Father, Successor of the Apostle Saint Peter, His only Begotten Son, Jesus Christ, and visible head of Jesus’ Church on earth. and the Holy Spirit to grant me the following favor: We trust this prayer to You (mention favor sought) through the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Mother of Jesus, Charlene, thank you for helping me. under her title by which She is known May Jesus Christ always be praised. as the Patroness of Louisiana: May Mary, Jesus Ever-Virgin Mother, The Immaculate Conception. always be called blessed. Amen. Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory Be Why Not the Best? Nothing happens. Ever wonder why theology. It’s contemptible. And trust me, it by Randall Smith preaching is so pitiful? Because we have earns their contempt. I am an adult convert, seminarians who don’t read and can’t write, and I remember being fed this tepid Sending someone for catechesis in the and rarely are they forced to do either. How pabulum when I was their age. I spat it out. Catholic faith? “Uh-oh, where can we send are seminarians who never read and can’t I didn’t become interested in Christianity them where their faith won’t be ruined?” write supposed to construct a sensible, let until I read Augustine’s Confessions and Preparing for marriage in the Catholic alone lively, sermon? What else would you Aquinas’s Treatise on Law in college. “Wow,” Church? “Uh-oh. Well, you just have to gut expect from such poorly trained young men I thought, “these guys are really something. it out. Don’t listen to most of the silly stuff but pious platitudes or ideological jargon? Religion isn’t all this sickly sweet stuff. they tell you.” And so, too, when bishops Future priests are found cheating in a There’s some real meat here. Now, I’m send seminarians for training. “Uh-oh, class on advanced homiletics, and their interested.” where can we send them that they won’t be superiors simply look the other way? Why? I was not entirely convinced, but at least corrupted and their faith undermined? Their answer: “We need priests!” No, they had my attention. None of the stuff Why are we constantly in this sad state actually, we need good priests. And we will “for teens” ever earned my respect or got of searching for the least bad option? Why never get them, never develop them, unless much of my attention. “Come back when are our Catholic educational institutions not we stop accepting mediocrity and the least you’ve got something serious to say,” I the best in the country – and in the world? bad option and insist on excellence. thought – as serious as people who have I have a friend who works with My friend had a seminarian come to her founded companies or been in war or seminarians. Year after year, she deals with once at the end of the school year and say, landed an airliner without engines on the seminarians who can’t write and won’t do “I need to read more.” What should he Hudson River. the reading. She complains to the Rector of read, he wanted to know. She Young adults like to have fun, but when Studies. “Yes,” he says, shaking his head, recommended Augustine’s Confessions. they go to a lecture, they want something “we need to do better.” But they never do. When he came back after the summer, he substantive and serious, or else you just They don’t care enough to make a had read that and the whole of Kristin shouldn’t waste their time. As for difference. We see this in education all the Lavransdatter (all 1000 pages). It changed seminarians, if you cannot convince them time. This sort of “caring” is a sentiment, his life, he said. to take their vocation seriously enough to not a living intention to do something I am writing an introductory textbook read important books and not cheat, then concrete. More time spent outside of class. on moral theology. Everyone says, “What you should not allow them to waste More tutoring. More effort expended on level are you writing for?” “Advanced high everyone else’s time. difficult subjects. school kids and college students,” I tell What we usually get instead are repeated them. “I have pitched it at the level I usually “reorganizations” in which nothing use in my ‘Catholic Thing’ articles, but each Randall B. Smith is the substantial changes. We are left doing chapter is roughly twenty pages.” “No, no, Scanlan Professor of mostly the same thing using different no,” many people reply. “You can’t get kids Theology at the University of categories and people shifted around with to read this much or material this advanced. Saint Thomas in . different titles. Then the people in charge They won’t do it. Five to ten pages of will say, “We have a bold new initiative,” simple prose is all you can expect.” when nothing is bold or new about it. This Really? These are kids who have read all “bold, new initiative” is, in fact, identifiably seven Harry Potter books and the entire similar in its shallowness to the last five Lord of the Rings trilogy, much of which From Buddy Chastant failed “bold, new” initiatives that didn’t they have memorized, and they can’t be solve the problems. asked to read twenty pages of “Catholic and Family And to be honest, no one really cared Thing”- level prose because it’s “too hard” enough after the announcement of any of and “too complicated” for them? That’s those “bold, new initiatives” to make sure insulting. And I don’t believe it. Why must We would like to thank everyone they were solving the problem either. It was we always be dragged down by this magnet that helped support the benefit announced. This made them feel good. The of mediocrity? Why are we not continually new program was said to result from hours challenging them to strive for more – strive for Brayton Chastant last of “hard work” – meaning endless for excellence? weekend. meetings of various “interest groups” that Olympic athletes train endlessly, as Saint had to be placated. The result was they Paul pointed out. I have kids in my classes hammered out a lowest common who train so hard in sports they can’t walk denominator everyone could agree on. Not up the stairs. But we are so frightened like Also, on Sunday, November 10, the best, but not the worst. Rather, the least little rabbits that we will upset them, so 2019, Brayton made 17 years that bad option available. embarrassed at the faith, that we dare not My friend who tutors seminarians tells ask them to read twenty or thirty pages that he had his liver transplant surgery. of reading their assignments in “Advanced could change their lives? Homiletics.” A third of them have clearly We expect Olympic quality excellence in plagiarized their assignments. She reports it. sports, but we give them baby pabulum in Again thanks to everyone!

The “Synodality” Masquerade constitutive dimension of the development of that synod’s working by George Weigel Church. You cannot be a Church document. But how can a local Church without acknowledging an effective unable to tell us how many Catholics During the 2001 Synod of Bishops, exercise of the sensus fidei of the there are in Amazonia credibly count Cardinal Francis George of Chicago, entire People of God. the precise number of people who’d suffered through a lot of “consulted” (much less tell us how well synodal speechifying and small-group Leaving aside the question of how an -catechized those people are)? And discussions over the years, made a “effective … sense of the faithful” how was it that 87,000 Amazonians trenchant observation: “Jesus Christ involving 1.2 billion Catholics could be spoke in progressive German Catholic didn’t intend His Church to be measured, much less “exercised,” what accents, emphasizing “issues” that may governed by a committee.” does this gobbledygook mean? be agitated in the Biergärten of Munich Indeed. Confusions on that front were but that seem somewhat removed The mechanisms of consultation amplified by a prominent celebrant of from the real-world pastoral challenges that exist in the Church — from parish the cult of synodality, whose prose of the Brazilian rainforest? councils through diocesan pastoral parses but whose grasp of the reality “The actual Synod gatherings … in councils to the Synod of Bishops — of recent synods seems deficient. Thus Rome have featured genuine freedom of exist to strengthen the governance of Villanova’s Massimo Faggioli, writing expression.” This, I’m sure, would come the Church by its pastors: priests in in La Croix International, recently made as news to the African bishops warned their parishes, bishops in their dioceses, several claims about synodality, none against consorting with American the Bishop of Rome in terms of the of which stands up to what the courts bishops at Synod-2018, as it would to Universal Church. The Synods of would call “strict scrutiny” by those the members of the final-report 2014, 2015, 2018, and 2019, however, actually present in Rome during recent drafting committees at Synod-2015 suggest that the committee model synods: and Synod-2018, who complained deplored by Cardinal George has “… Francis has turned the synods into about the manipulation of the process morphed into something arguably even real events.” Baloney. The synods led by by the synod general secretariat. worse: the masquerade model, in Cardinal Lorenzo Baldisseri, chosen by Serious consultation and which a “synodal process” of “walking the Holy Father as secretary-general of collaboration are essential to effective together” provides cover for effecting the Synod of Bishops, have been at pastoral leadership, including the serious changes in Catholic self- least as orchestrated as their leadership of the Bishop of Rome. But understanding and practice for which predecessors. And after there was over the 50-plus years of its existence, there is little or no doctrinal, serious pushback to the manipulation no one has figured out how to make theological, or pastoral warrant. of Synod-2014 by the synod general the Synod of Bishops really work. In the Final Report of the recent secretariat, care was taken at the synods Propaganda about “synodality” that Amazonian Synod, this masquerade of 2015 and 2018, and at the recent functions as rhetorical cover for the model was described in language Amazonian regional synod, to ensure imposition of the progressive Catholic sodden with clichés: that voices potentially disruptive of the agenda on the whole Church is not an synod-managers’ plans were not improvement on that track record; it’s a To walk together the Church today prominent among the invited. masquerade, behind which is an needs a conversion to the synodal “They [the recent synods] have been agenda. experience. It is necessary to prefaced by a serious consultation of the strengthen a culture of dialogue, faithful at the local level.” Really? Can you, reciprocal listening, spiritual gentle reader, name anyone in your circle George Weigel is Distinguished Senior Fellow discernment, consensus and of Catholic friends who was seriously of Washington, D.C.’s Ethics and Public communion to find spaces and consulted about the issues at synods Policy Center, where he holds the William E. modes of joint decision and 2014 and 2015 (the nature of marriage Simon Chair in Catholic Studies. respond to pastoral challenges. This and sacramental discipline)? Leaders of will foster joint responsibility in the some of the most evangelically life of the Church in a spirit of successful youth ministries in the service. It is urgent to work, United States were noticeably absent propose, and assume the from the preparations for Synod-2018. responsibilities to overcome According to several Amazonian clericalism and arbitrary Synod spin-doctors, 87,000 people impositions. 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