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The Danger of Legitimizing Francis’s Synodal Church

“But let your speech be yea, yea: no, no: and that which is over and above these, is of evil.” (Matthew 5:37) Almost two years ago, Francis opened his Synod on Synodality by telling the world that he intended to “create a different church”: “The Holy Spirit guides us where God wants us to be, not to where our own ideas and personal tastes would lead us.  Father Congar, of blessed memory, once said: ‘There is no need to create another Church, but to create a different Church’ (True and False Reform in the Church).  That is the challenge.  For…