The Synodal Comedy: Act II

In the Synodal Sessions, the Faith's majesty is trampled upon, then traded for the cheap trinkets of the best psychobabble money can buy.

Published in Crisis Magazine on October 9, 2024

Assaults on the city of Rome, the See of Peter, have not been infrequent over the course of the millennia.

Attila attempted. But he failed when he came into the formidable presence of Leo, called “the Great,” resulting in a dramatic volte-face.

Napoleon conquered Rome in 1809.

The Italian Nationalists of the Risorgimento mounted attacks upon Rome in 1848, forcing Blessed Pius IX to flee in a simple black Roman cassock to Gaeta in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies.

Hitler subdued Rome on June 4, 1944.

Yet none of these can compare to the assault being suffered by Rome today.

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