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Yeah… gotta admit that this is funny…
I hear there is a new college drinking game, the Synodal Sip: one takes a shot each time the pope says ‘synodal.’ ? https://t.co/AvcEsThwJJ
— Father V (@father_rmv) November 23, 2025
Meanwhile… not so funny…
This is the full text in English of the Apostolic Letter of Pope Leo XIV entitled In unitate fidei (“On the unity of faith”) on the 1700th Anniversary of the Council of Nicaea.https://t.co/VY1RV1vewR
— EWTN Vatican (@EWTNVatican) November 23, 2025
In Wyoming (USA), Carmelite monks are building a Gothic monastery in the Rocky Mountains.
Called New Mount Carmel, the project follows the style of medieval European abbeys and is built by the monks themselves, who live in prayer, silence, and manual labor.
They sustain… pic.twitter.com/UTpOqwxRqv
— Trad West (@trad_west_) November 23, 2025
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From the letter:
“Instead of proclaiming a merciful God, a vengeful God has been presented who instils terror and punishes.”
But this is manifestly not true. We’ve had at least 50 years of NOTHING but talk and talk and talk about the “merciful God” from popes and bishops and cardinals. And God is now even more meaningless in the lives of people than He was before Vatican II and the “terrible” days of all that talk about the “vengeful God.” What is with this never-ending delirious hype about how great Vatican II was?
“Thanks to God, the ecumenical movement has achieved much in the last sixty years.” Apart from a handful of goofy and nigh-on heretical prayer meetings in Assisi, can anyone anywhere name one lasting and meaningful achievement thanks to the Ecumenical Movement?
If “unity, unity, unity” is the only goal that matters anymore, than why even stop at the Nicene Creed? Can’t we just go to before the beliefs from before the Nicene Creed so we can include the Arian types and the Gnostics in our new “unity, unity, unity” parade?
I honestly wonder – do popes write these things themselves? Or are they assembled via Vatican committee and then the pope just signs them?
SyndodalWay ™ is like Subway, except the bread is somehow even more stale, the lettuce even more wilted, and the meat even less meaty.
At least it’s air conditioned, I guess.
Father, you mentioned that “In unitate fidei” is not so funny. I agree with you. Will you be giving any commentary on this? After skimming most of it, I read the whole last section. I find myself very confused. Technical language is used correctly, i.e., “ecclesial communities” for those born of the Protestant Reformation and “Churches” for the Orthodox. But then Pope Leo mentions how “the one universal Christian community can be a sign of peace and an instrument of reconciliation”.
I thought the “one universal Christian community” was the Catholic Church. Is that not what the Nicene Creed describes when it mentions the “one, holy, catholic and apostolic Church”? But in the context Pope Leo uses this phrase, he seems to have in mind ALL professed Christians in general. Which is it that he means? Because if it’s the latter (all Christians, Catholic or otherwise), then does unity really matter anymore?
We never get an answer to the question as to WHY “we must walk together to reach unity and reconciliation among all Christians”. WHY must Christians have unity? Ostensibly, it’s “to carry out [our] ministry credibly”. But so what? Is unity essential? Is it actually required for salvation? What I get from this letter is that unity is great; “it enriches us”. But from the tenor of this letter, it doesn’t seem necessary. “Unity” instead seems like a great “add-on”, but it’s not something Christians absolutely need since we’re (apparently) already “one universal Christian community”.
But again, I always thought that the Church of Christ, the Mystical Body of Christ could only be identified with the Catholic Church. Heck, even the documents of Vatican II stated this.
Am I reading too much into this? Just curious if what I’m finding “not funny” is what you and others are finding to be “not funny”. The language used in the last section of this letter seems to be beating around the bush. Hence my confusion.
Lord Jesus have mercy on us.
Honest question, why should Catholics care about documents released by Rome at this point? Just to be scandalized by another Amoris Laetitia, Traditionis Custodes, Fiducia Supplicans, Doctrinal Note on Some Marian Titles…, statements about God willing all religions, talk about a Synodal church (distinct from the Catholic Church?), etc?
Just FYI, the bishop of our diocese has forbidden all priests and deacons to visit the Carmelite monastery and the monastery will no longer allow visitors to attend Sunday Mass, which is the TLM. Our bishop suppressed the Latin Mass, except for this monastery, before it was cool to do so.