Leading Kazakh prelate speaks of ‘smoke of Satan’ at 2014, current synods
October 15, 2015
The leading prelate in Kazakhstan said in an October 10 speech to the Synod of Bishops that “during the Synod last year, ‘the smoke of Satan’ was trying to enter the aula of Paul VI.”
Voice of the Family, a coalition of pro-life groups, stated on its website that it was publishing Archbishop Tomash Peta’s synod intervention with his permission.
The archbishop of Astana identified the smoke of Satan with “the proposal to admit to Holy Communion those who are divorced and living in new civil unions; the affirmation that cohabitation is a union which may have in itself some values; the pleading for homosexuality as something which is allegedly normal.”
He added:
Some synod fathers have not understood correctly the appeal of Pope Francis for an open discussion and started to bring forward ideas which contradict the bi-millennial Tradition of the Church, rooted in the Eternal Word of God. Unfortunately, one can still perceive the smell of this “infernal smoke” in some items of the “Instrumentum Laboris” and also in the interventions of some synod fathers this year.
To my mind, the main task of a Synod consists in indicating again to the Gospel of the marriage and of the family and that means to the teaching of Our Savior. It is not allowed to destroy the fundament – to destroy the rock.
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