October 13, 2014: The Day That Will Be Remembered for Starting the Catholic Schism?

By Dr. Kelly Bowring www.TwoHeartsPress.com, October 13, 2014. Originally published in the Two Hearts press website.

Will today be remembered as the first day that led to the Church’s prophesied schism? Quite likely yes. By many accounts people are waking up to see that the Family Synod of October 2014 is an officially Vatican-orchestrated fiasco. The mid-way report was released today, October 13th, a day of great spiritual significance.

This report has been called an “earthquake” by one Catholic reporter, and “one of the worst official documents drafted in Church history” by John Smeaton, co-founder of Voice of the Family. He went on to say: “We urge Catholics not to be complacent or give in to a false sense of obedience, in the face of attacks on the fundamental principles of the natural law (and Church doctrine). Catholics are morally obliged to oppose the course being taken within the Synod.” Anyway you look at it, the document summarizing the first week of the synod is not acceptable to many bishops, says Archbishop Stanislaw Gądecki.

While the synod report released today is a preliminary report for discussion, rather than a definitive proposal, it is clear that it indicates where the endgame is headed. And whether people want to acknowledge it yet or not, the fact is that the train has left the station, and there is no stopping it or turning it around. The synod’s mid-term report is an evil, unloving document of double-talk and doctrinal compromise (in the name of worldly accommodation and misguided compassion which sanctions sin), and to try to pull out and promote its positive phrases would only be an endorsement of the bad as well. As a whole it is heretical, and it is coming from the “official” Church leadership that is controlling the synod. All good Catholics must criticize this document and its contents, and the future documents that come as a result of it – but only in unison with the true Magisterium.

Today, October 13, will likely be remembered as a significant day for what has just happened in Rome, possibly for being the first day of the now openly-developing and prophesied Church Schism. In a related way, this day, October 13th, is also a very significant day in recent Church history as well.