Thread by @M_P_Hazell

"For you may be sure of this, that everyone who is sexually immoral or impure, or who is covetous (that is, an idolater), has no inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God." (Eph. 5:5; see also 1 Cor. 6:9-10; Gal. 5:19-22; 1 Tim. 1:8-11; Heb. 13:3; Rev. 21:8; 22:15).

https://twitter.com/americamag/status/1618020974376394752

One of the primary objections to this "radical inclusion" Cardinal McElroy talks about is that it involves dispensing with the universal call to holiness – you know, that thing the most recent ecumenical Council of the Church spoke about at length in ch. 5 of «Lumen Gentium»...!

"Thus it is evident to everyone, that all the faithful of Christ of whatever rank or status, are called to the fullness of the Christian life and to the perfection of charity; by this holiness as such a more human manner of living is promoted in this earthly society." (LG 40)

This call to holiness is also a biblical call: e.g., "Strive for peace with everyone, and for the holiness without which no one will see the Lord." (Heb. 12:14)

"For God has not called us for impurity, but in holiness. Therefore whoever disregards this, disregards not man but God, who gives his Holy Spirit to you." (1 Thess. 4:7-8)

I do not think it is an accident that the word "holiness" is nowhere to be found in Cardinal McElroy's article. And neither, incidentally, is it to be found anywhere in the Working Document for the Continental Stage of the #Synod.

Lots of (empty) "synodal talk" about "enlarging the tent", "radical inclusion", "listening", "welcome" etc. etc. blah blah blah... but absolutely zero sense of the *obligation* of all the faithful to strive for holiness and perfection (LG 42: «invitantur et tenentur»)!

The world needs holiness. The Church, the Mystical Body of Christ, needs every one of its members to pursue holiness. A self-referential #synod on "synodality" hell-bent on conforming the Church to the world is a catastrophic, fruitless, and devastating dead end.