Martyrs are now passé—for the Synodalist Church, that is.
Martyrs spilled their blood for Truth come down from Heaven. For the Synodalist, there is no truth, only transactional process.
Who would die for that?
Those are Father Perricone’s opening words in his latest essay for Crisis Magazine.
In it, Father considers the stark contrast between the Catholic understanding of Truth—received from God, professed by the Church, and defended by the martyrs with their very lives—and what he sees as the ascendancy of process, dialogue, and accommodation in the Synodalist Church.
His opening challenge is characteristically direct:
“For the Synodalist, truth is an antediluvian embarrassment—and so are martyrs.”
The martyrs did not shed their blood for a process. They died for the Truth.
Father asks us to consider what becomes of martyrdom—and ultimately of the Faith itself—when immutable Truth gives way to something perpetually subject to discussion, negotiation, and change.
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Editor’s Note: This essay first appeared in Crisis Magazine and is shared here as part of the Society for Sacred Tradition’s ongoing effort to preserve and promote Father Perricone’s writings. Please support Crisis by reading and sharing the original publication.