The whole notion that the baptized automatically have an orthodox "sensus fidelium" is a farce and a lie! Baptism gives to the soul the theological virtue of Faith in seed form only. That seed has to be nourished through years of learning the content of the Mysteries of the Catholic and Apostolic Faith - accompanied by faithful living and worship. This Synod seems to think that Baptism confers the preternatural gift of "infused knowledge" upon the soul! Furthermore, it even implies that Protestants would have this gift too! If this were so, there would have been no need for all the dogmatic councils of the Church that hammered out the orthodox doctrines and dogmas of the Catholic Faith down through the centuries -- all the baptized would "magically" have infused knowledge about the beliefs of the Faith. The only thing that will result from consulting the laity - and sadly many of the bishops in our times - is a collective "sentimental journey" into religious feeling colored by cultural preferences. This is not the Source of Divine Revelation of the Catholic and Apostolic Faith. It is pure Gnosticism.
The whole notion that the baptized automatically have an orthodox "sensus fidelium" is a farce and a lie! Baptism gives to the soul the theological virtue of Faith in seed form only. That seed has to be nourished through years of learning the content of the Mysteries of the Catholic and Apostolic Faith - accompanied by faithful living and worship. This Synod seems to think that Baptism confers the preternatural gift of "infused knowledge" upon the soul! Furthermore, it even implies that Protestants would have this gift too! If this were so, there would have been no need for all the dogmatic councils of the Church that hammered out the orthodox doctrines and dogmas of the Catholic Faith down through the centuries -- all the baptized would "magically" have infused knowledge about the beliefs of the Faith. The only thing that will result from consulting the laity - and sadly many of the bishops in our times - is a collective "sentimental journey" into religious feeling colored by cultural preferences. This is not the Source of Divine Revelation of the Catholic and Apostolic Faith. It is pure Gnosticism.
Synodality is the Nursing Home of Modernism replete with senile dementia ranting, temper tantrums and completely irrational orders.