If you saw the weed but failed to remove it by the root, don’t complain when it threatens to overtake the entire lawn.
There’s a foul weed taking root in the Church. Cardinal Burke went so far as to identify and sound the warning when he recently cried out, “Stop the Synod!” But Cardinal Sarah has gone further and diagnosed the illness: paganism.
The Synod is a Trojan horse designed to transform the Christian Church into a pagan temple.
Michael Haynes, reporting in The Catholic Herald, quotes Cardinal Sarah, who claims that paganism has entered the Church. The cardinal traces it to the Pachamama disaster which occurred during the Synod, with Pope Francis presiding over and enabling the unseating of the true God by a false god within His own consecrated place of worship. It was sacrilege and blasphemy. Haynes writes:
“‘Two key moments from Pope Francis’ pontificate are proof that ‘sheer paganism has entered the Church,’ according to Robert Cardinal Sarah.
“‘They brought an Inca idol, and this idol entered the Basilica of St. Peter,’ lamented Cardinal Sarah reflecting upon the Amazon Synod of 2019.
“‘We carried it in procession from the Basilica to the Paul VI Hall, and it remained in front of us the whole time during the Synod,’ he recalled, during a lengthy interview with Vaticanist Diane Montagna. ‘The Pachamama remained there like that throughout the whole Synod.’
“We agree with Cardinal Burke that now the only reasonable recourse for Pope Leo is to halt the ongoing auto-destruction generated by the grinding gears of the Synod apparatus.”
Diane Montagna reported on her Substack and on the College of Cardinals Report website on the recent remarks by Burke, which are among the most dire commentaries yet on the Synod disaster that increases confusion and regularly contradicts settled Catholic teaching on faith and morals.
This latest reporting is dated July 17, 2026, but the call for restoration of Catholic sanity is not new.
“Cardinal Raymond Burke has raised serious concerns about the use of ‘synodality’ in a recent consistory of cardinals, warning that the current methodology risks undermining open debate within the Sacred College and obscuring critical issues facing the Church.
“Speaking to The College of Cardinals Report on June 28, following the June 26–27 consistory convened by Pope Leo, Cardinal Burke welcomed the renewed gathering of cardinals, something he noted had not occurred for many years under Pope Francis, and described the opportunity for greater fraternal exchange as a ‘very great fruit.’
“But he also expressed concern that the structure of the meeting limited meaningful discussion as it had adopted a format modeled on ‘synodal’ processes, with cardinals divided into small groups and guided by preset questions.
“He argued that this approach prevented in-depth engagement and reduced feedback to consensus-based summaries, potentially excluding dissenting but important viewpoints from reaching the Pope.
“‘The reports are only reports of what every cardinal agreed upon,’ Cardinal Burke said, adding that perspectives not shared by a majority may be omitted despite their significance.
“He described a final session conducted in the traditional open-debate format as the most productive part of the gathering, although limited by time. The free discussion, in the presence of the Pope, was how past consistories of cardinals were undertaken.
“Overall, he said the consistory was a ‘very controlled’ process, including the apparent pre-selection of discussion leaders and limited opportunities for free intervention. In his view, this risked diminishing the role of cardinals as advisors to the Pope.
“Turning to the growing use of ‘synodality’ in the Church, Cardinal Burke firmly questioned its theological and historical grounding, describing it as a concept without clear definition or precedent in Church tradition. While synods have long existed as occasional consultative gatherings, he emphasized that they are not constitutive elements of the Church’s nature.
“‘There is no definition of synodality, there’s no history of it in the Church,’ he said, expressing concern at the merging of established structures, such as consistories, with what he regards as an undefined concept.
“Citing St. Paul’s teaching on the transmission of the faith — ‘I hand on to you what I first received’ — Burke argued that continuity is essential and absent from current formulations of synodality.
“‘So we have to insist that this whole synodality business stop, and there be a very serious study done of the whole matter, because we’re talking about the very life of the Church, and we’re talking about the salvation of souls,’ he said.
“The cardinal also cautioned against reshaping established ecclesial structures around what he characterized as a contemporary and insufficiently examined idea. ‘The Church does not have paradigm shifts,’ he said, rejecting language used in synodal and other discussions that suggested a radical change in direction for the Church’s teaching or mission.
“The cardinal also warned that an excessive focus on contemporary concerns risks conforming the Church to secular ways of thinking, rather than addressing the modern world from within her own doctrinal and historical continuity.
“‘I’m confident our Lord will protect the Church,’ he said, ‘but we have to do our part to say, no, this concept of synodality, while it may have a good motive in the sense of wanting to address the faith of the contemporary time, is fundamentally flawed.’”
The dangerous spiritual or theological shell game of substituting something alien in place of the divinely constituted Church of Jesus Christ is now obvious for all to see. And its name is not now “Legion” but, rather, “synodality.”
Synodality was the brain child of Pope Francis as suggested to him by an Anglican, an ecclesial body now heading down the road to self-destruction. We don’t need to experiment; we already know the results that await us if we don’t turn back. The Anglican Church has now abandoned all pretense of moral teaching with sodomy substituting for marriage blessed by church ceremonies and “ministers” proudly displaying their same-sex “spouses” via social media. A joke if it wasn’t so tragic and scandalous, not to mention sacrilegious.
Burke’s voice is needed but, after the pope himself, it is only the cardinals who, more than anyone else in the universal Church, have the ability to act and effectively protect the Church and the faithful from the encroaching predations of the Enemy.
Cardinal Sarah has put it most succinctly and therefore most helpfully: it is nothing less than the antithesis of the Faith with which the Synod agents are flirting. Paganism itself yawns like a chasm of evil, threatening to swallow up and consume souls.
Yes, for the love of God and souls, I add my voice to that of the Cardinals, and the many others, crying out in the name of all that is holy: stop the pagan synod.
Thank you for reading. Praised be Jesus Christ, our King, now and forever.
