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"Double Standard" Update
Vatican
Silent
as Heretics Meet in Rome
by Christopher A. Ferrara
 As noted in
previous columns, the Vatican has twice issued notices to the world (September
12 and September 18, 2001) that no one should attend a conference on world
peace and the Message of Fatima to be held in Rome by Father Nicholas
Gruner’s apostolate from October 7-13, 2001. The ever-vigilant
Congregation for the Clergy wants the world to know that this conference does
not “enjoy approval of ecclesiastical authority.” Of course, no such
approval is required under Church law, but the Vatican bureaucracy isn’t
about to disclose the whole truth.
Meanwhile,
another conference is to be held in Rome around the same time. This conference
is being staged by something called the Synod of the People of God. From
October 4-7, the Synod of the People of God will be conducting what it calls a
“shadow synod” during the Tenth Ordinary General Assembly of Bishops,
which will be going on in Rome during that same week.
The website of
this organization reveals that the Synod of the People of God is a front for a
worldwide panoply of organizations which dissent from the infallible teaching
of the Church on faith and morals. The “Synod” includes the We Are
Church Movement and Catholics for A Free Choice, which agitates in favor of
abortion and for the expulsion of the Vatican from the United Nations.
It should
not surprise anyone who has followed the insane persecution of Father Gruner by
the Vatican bureaucracy that the same bureaucracy has uttered not one public
word about the “shadow synod” or the nest of heretics which is
staging it. There have been no announcements by the Vatican Press Office to the
effect that the gathering “does not enjoy the approval of ecclesiastical
authority.”
Proving once
again that in the ecclesial crisis which now afflicts us, neither heresy nor
scandal produces much in the way of public action from the Vatican bureaucrats
who have presided over the past 40 years of ecclesial scandal and
deconstruction. What does excite their immediate action, however, is a small
gathering of faithful Catholics and celibate and orthodox clergy to discuss the
Message of Fatima and its relation to the increasingly alarming state of world
affairs.
Incredibly
enough, the Consecration of Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary has become
the one verboten subject in the Church today. That should give even
Father Gruner’s detractors something to think about.
May God spare
us.
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