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Jerome D. Gilmartin – April 15, 2025. Updated May 15, 2026.

Catholics, after hearing the words “Synodal Church” for the first time from their pastor during Mass on Sunday, may find the following in a Google web search:

“The [Synodal Church] document on the screen details a theological paradigm shift in the Catholic Church’s mission, driven by the ongoing Synod on Synodality and formulated by its expert committees.”

“A ‘paradigm shift’ describes a fundamental change in an approach or underlying assumptions.” (Google). In the Catholic Church that fundamental change has come in two steps:

The first fundamental change began quietly in the 1970s, soon after the Second Vatican Council, when instruction in most Catholic seminaries began to wrongly cast doubt on the authenticity of the Gospels according to Matthew, Mark and John; thus facilitating the ecumenical dialogue called for by the Vatican II Decree on Ecumenism.

The second fundamental change occurred October 26, 2024 when Pope Francis inaugurated the Synodal Church and with it the radical changes cited below; changes approved by Pope Leo XIV.