FROM 17TH – 26TH SEPTEMBER 2019

Various Prelates (Bishops & other high ecclesiastical dignitaries) and various Laity and Lay Institutions have warned that the Instrumentum Laboris (Working Instrument) for the upcoming Pan-Amazon Synod in Rome contains SIX SERIOUS THEOLOGICAL ERRORS and HERESIES inserted by its authors.

This Document will serve as a basis for discussions in this synod and may result in this errors and heresies being approved.

Therefore Cardinal Raymond Burke and Bishop Athanasius Schneider co-authored a Declaration warning about these six errors and heresies. The Declaration is attached below for you to read for yourself the errors and the Official Church Teachings that condemns them.

Catholic faithful everywhere are called to join in a 40 day Crusade of Prayer and Fasting from 17^th – 26^th of September for the following intensions:

1. THAT THE THEOLOGICAL ERRORS AND HERESIES INSERTED IN THE INSTRUMENTUM LABORIS DOCUMENT MAY NOT BE APPROVED DURING THE SYNODAL ASSEMBLY.
2. THAT PARTICULARLY POPE FRANCIS, IN THE EXERCISE OF THE PETRINE MINISTRY, MAY CONFIRM HIS BRETHREN IN THE FAITH BY AN UNAMBIGUOUS REJECTION OF THE ERRORS OF THE INSTRUMENTUM LABORIS AND THAT HE MAY NOT CONSENT TO THE ABOLITION OF PRIESTLY CELIBACY IN THE LATIN CHURCH BY INTRODUCING THE PRAXIS OF THE ORDINATION OF MARRIED MEN, THE SO-CALLED “VIRI PROBATI”, TO THE HOLY PRIESTHOOD.

“During the forty-day crusade of prayer and fasting, we propose to pray daily at least one decade of the Holy Rosary and to fast once a week for the above mentioned intentions. According to the tradition of The Church, fasting consists in eating only one full meal during the day, and additionally, one may eat up to two smaller meals. Fasting on bread and water is also recommended to those who are able to do so,”

Cardinal Burke and Bishop Schneider concluded the Declaration and the invitation to Prayer and Fasting as follows:

The theological errors and heresies, implicit and explicit in the Instrumentum Laboris of the imminent Special Assembly of the Synod of Bishops for the Pan-Amazon, are an alarming manifestation of the confusion, error and division which beset the Church in our day. No one can excuse himself from being informed about the gravity of the situation and from taking appropriate action for love of Christ and of His life with us in the Church. Above all, all the members of Christ’s Mystical Body, before such a threat to her integrity, must pray and fast for the eternal good of her members who risk being scandalized that is led into confusion, error and division by this text for the Synod of Bishops. Moreover, every Catholic, as a true soldier of Christ, is called to safeguard and promote the truths of the faith and the discipline by which those truths are honored in practice, lest the solemn assembly of the Bishops in Synod betray the mission of the Synod, which is “to assist the Roman Pontiff with their counsel in the preservation and growth of faith and morals and in the observance and strengthening of ecclesiastical discipline” (can. 342). On October 13, 2019, during the coming Special Assembly of the Synod of Bishops for the Pan-Amazon, there will take place the Canonization of Blessed Cardinal John Henry Newman. May the Holy Father and all the members of the Special Assembly of the Synod of Bishops for the Pan-Amazon hear and accept the following luminous teaching of this newest Saint of the Church, in which he warned against theological errors similar to the above-mentioned errors in the Instrumentum Laboris:

“Private creeds, fancy religions, may be showy and imposing to the many in their day; national religions may lie huge and lifeless, and cumber the ground for centuries, and distract the attention or confuse the judgment of the learned; but on the long run it will be found that either the Catholic Religion is verily and indeed the coming in of the unseen world into this, or that there is nothing positive, nothing dogmatic, nothing real, in any of our notions as to whence we come and whither we are going”

(Discourses to Mixed Congregations, XIII).