Dear Friend,

His Eminence, Raymond Cardinal Burke – our patron – described the “Faithful Echo” as a Movement dedicated to drawing the clergy and the lay faithful in ever closer unity to combat the darkness of the present confusion, error, and division in the Church.

His Eminence is right on the money!

If there was ever a time for us to join together to be a “faithful echo” of the voices of Truth in our Church, it’s now. Let me explain. 

We have been closely following the shadowy “Synod on Synodality” process that has been taking place for almost two years now and that is scheduled to culminate in this month’s meeting in the Vatican which will go on for the rest of October. 

Not everyone has the time (or the patience) to follow these issues, but we feel it is our duty to keep you informed about such things. So, here’s my essential—and hopefully charitable—take on the proceedings. 

• The synod’s long-winded and tedious process of “dialogue” about essential Church teachings is unprecedented in the history of the Church—never has a synod been formed to discuss established Church teachings.
• The schismatic German synod of the same name that took place this past year is a microcosm of what the radicals in power intend for the Church as a whole: Protestantized processes of ecclesiastical governance as well as re-worked, relativistic moral codes.
• It is all a game of confusion in place of clarity; compromise in place of commitment; false compassion instead of true charity. 

I don’t intend this to be a run-on commentary on a complex situation. I simply want to reiterate something I’ve said a thousand times before. Namely, with Marxist tactics like this and radical agendas for change:

They are leading the faithful away from the truth of the Church.

I can’t say it any more clearly than that.

If you need any evidence of this, just take the statement of Francis DeBernardo, Executive Director of the radical homosexual advocacy group called New Ways Ministry.

When the recently-radicalized Prefect for the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith released a statement yesterday that allegedly “allows for pastoral ministers to bless homosexual relationships on a case-by-case basis,” the activists at New Ways Ministry were elated. 

DeBernardo stated that “the document significantly advances Pope Francis’ work to include and affirm LGBTQ+ people.”

You see?

What once I called a “shadow church” is fully out and proud now. The radicals are emboldened now by all the compromises of those in leadership positions in Rome. Their agenda is not hidden any more, even though it is slow and patient. 

Remember the old analogy about boiling a frog by degrees?

Well, that is undoubtedly the Marxist strategy at play here. That is why they need a three-year process to undermine established Church teaching. That is why they carefully and deceptively plant seeds of dissent in the Mystical Body of the Church. 

The real problem with this analogy, though, is that at the end of the boiling process…the frog dies. 

So, I ask you: Are faithful Catholics to sit back and tolerate this incremental process of destruction of our beloved Church? 

Not on your life!

So, I’m taking this opportunity to inform our audience of stalwart Catholics that we are throwing our support 1,000% behind His Eminence, Cardinal Burke, who has teamed up with four other Cardinals of the Church (including the preeminent Cardinal Robert Sarah) to offer:

• Clarity in the face of confusion at the highest levels;
• Commitment in the face of so much compromise of other churchmen; and 
• Charity in place of false and radicalized notions of our Catholic Faith.

There is some history here, as you might imagine. 

In 2016 when Cardinal Burke and several other prelates issued their five-question dubia (formal presentation of doubts) to Pope Francis to clear up some doctrinal confusion, it took the Holy Father seven years to answer. 

When he did, his formal response cleared upon exactly nothing! Which is why Cardinal Burke felt dutifully bound to issue another formal set of dubia (questions) to clarify the first one!

If you haven’t yet read the Cardinals’ statement, this link will take you to Cardinal Burke’s website where you will find it:

These holy churchmen—pastors of souls!—are taking this unprecedented step because of their duty to “assist the Roman pontiff … individually … especially in the daily care of the universal Church” (canon 349). In other words: 

These courageous pastors of souls are leading the faithful INTO the truth of the Church.

In any case, we here at Catholic Action are continuing to follow and digest the proceedings of the “Synod on Synodality” in order to give you our take on matters and to keep you informed of the progress of the new dubia. (But don’t hold your breath for an answer…).

We will also keep you informed of our ongoing efforts to form partnerships with those who engage in the ongoing battle for the sanctity of the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church. 

Now is the time to be A Faithful Echo of the Voices of Truth and to Stand with the Church of Light and Peace in Times of Confusion!

At the top of this email I noted how Cardinal Burke touched on the essence of Catholic Action’s mission: We are, and intend always to be, the Faithful Echo of the faithful churchmen who will not compromise one degree with the world, the flesh, or the devil.

Your friend in Christ,

Thomas McKenna

Founder and President

Catholic Action For Faith And Family
https://www.catholicaction.org/

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