All posts by Shaun Willcock

Rome’s 2023 Synod on Synodality and Its Implications for Global Roman Catholicism

Romes 2023 Synod on Synodality, PDF format

The Synod: Setting the State for Massive Future Changes

  The participants in the Vatican Synod on Synodality, held in October 2023, were unaware of it for the most part, but they were being deliberately nudged along a predetermined path.  The entire process was being dominated by radical liberal priests and nuns, under the guiding hand of the Jesuits.  This was made clear by the first woman to ever preside over a synod of bishops, a Mexican nun named Maria de los Dolores Valencia Gomez.  She said at a press briefing that the participation of women in the Synod was “setting the stage for future changes.”  “I feel that this is a gradual process.  Little by little, we shall see changes,” she said.[i]  The end goal was already decided upon.

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The Vatican Synod on Synodality Meets Resistance

The Vatican Synod on Synodality Meets Resistance, PDF format

What Is It?

  The first Vatican assembly for the global Synod on Synodality, called for by the Roman pope Francis I, officially began in October 2023.  It was the first of two planned assemblies, the second one scheduled for October 2024.

A “synod”, according to Romespeak, is a meeting of Romish bishops gathered to discuss a topic of theological or pastoral significance, and to prepare a document of advice or counsel to the Roman pope.  The 2023 Synod is a historic one for Rome, because it is the first ever to have voting delegates who are not only bishops.  Nearly a third of them are priests, nuns, and deacons.  A significant number are “lay” women.

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Are Huge Changes On the Horizon For the Papal System?

Are Huge Changes On the Horizon for the Papal System, PDF format

The Upcoming Synod: Creating a Different “Church” of Rome

  In October 2023 the first session of what is called the General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops on synodality will be held in the Vatican, with the second session scheduled for October 2024.  “Just another Vatican synod,” one might say, and dismiss it.  This would be a mistake.  This is no ordinary synod.  It could change the worldwide Roman Catholic institution, doctrinally and practically, in such far-reaching ways that what emerges could be essentially a radically different Romish “Church”.  Francis I admitted this, saying that the synod would not be about creating another church but a different church.[1]  Yes, astonishingly different.

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Is Roman Catholicism Dying?

Is Roman Catholicism Dying, PDF format


The Decline of Romanism in Europe

   A recent Associated Press article stated: “Across Europe, the continent that nurtured [Roman Catholicism]… churches, convents and chapels stand empty and increasingly derelict as faith and church attendance shriveled over the past half century…. It is a phenomenon seen over much of Europe’s [Roman Catholic] heartland from Germany to Italy and many nations in between.”[1]  This is no exaggeration.  Romish church buildings, only a few short years ago packed to capacity with worshippers, stand empty, or are being converted to secular uses, such as cafes, concert stages, clothes shops, night clubs, even climbing walls.

Let us consider just three European countries.

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The Invisible Children, Or, When Rome’s Fake “Fathers” Become Real Fathers

The Invisible Children, or When Priests Father Children, PDF format

In mid-2019 I wrote an article entitled, The Next Great Priestly Scandal: Priests who Have Fathered Illegitimate Children.[1]  The reader is urged to read that article before reading this one.  The article dealt with the fact that all over the world, today no less than in times gone by, Roman Catholic priests, who are forbidden to marry and have to take a vow of celibacy, have fathered illegitimate children.  This sin had not been given the attention it deserved, in large measure because the worldwide scandal of the sexual abuse of children by priests had dominated world headlines for decades, and also because, as the Roman Catholic new source, Zenit, admitted, “The topic of ‘children of priests’ has long been considered taboo”.[2]

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Artificial Intelligence and the Assault on Christianity

Artificial Intelligence and the Assault on Christianity, PDF format

As almost everyone knows by now, Artificial Intelligence (or AI) has exploded into the public arena during the last few years.  It seems everywhere you look these days there is another article, video or discussion about AI.  AI apps are mushrooming, and what they are capable of doing already is astonishing.  And AI is improving all the time (if it can be called “improvement”) by leaps and bounds.

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USA, Bolivia, Spain: the Evidence of Priestly Abuse of Children Continues to Stack Up

USA, Bolivia, Spain – The Evidence of Priestly Abuse of Children, PDF format

First, the reader is urged to review the shocking revelations of the priestly sexual abuse of children which have come to light in more recent times, as documented in a number of articles of mine through the years, all of which are available on the Bible Based Ministries website:

* Child Sexual Abuse by Priests: Revelations of Shocking Crimes and Sinful Cover-Ups.  An overall summary of the priestly sex abuse scandals that had rocked the Papal system up to 2004, in many countries of the world.

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The Coronation of King Charles III: What about the “Protestant” and “Gospel” Bits?

The Coronation of King Charles, PDF format


Why the Coronation was Not Christian and Could Not Be

  The coronation of King Charles III in May 2023 was a display of pageantry and pomp of the first order.  No one in the world does pageantry like the British, and this event did not disappoint.  And considering that this was the coronation of a king, there was nothing wrong with it being so magnificent.  It was the religious aspects which should be repugnant to all true Bible Christians.  It is not surprising that Anglicans supported these; but that so many Evangelicals did as well reveals a terrible blind spot concerning this matter, the result of seriously faulty teaching and an erroneous understanding of the relationship between “Church” and State.

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Thoughtcrime and the Thought Police Are Now a Reality

Thoughtcrime and the Thought Police Are Now a Reality, PDF format


George Orwell’s book, 1984, is about a frightening totalitarian future where the government seeks to control every single aspect of life, including people’s thoughts, to prevent what is called “thought crime”.  The Thought Police exist to enforce this.

And now in the UK, the Thought Police have become a frightening and sinister reality!

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The Asbury “Revival” is a Counterfeit

The Asbury Revival is a Counterfeit, PDF format

In February 2023 a phenomenon began in Asbury University in Kentucky, USA, which rapidly spread to other parts of the US and around the world and has been enthusiastically hailed by multitudes as a great revival from God.  It has become known as the Asbury revival.

But is it really a revival from God?  It is the sacred work of the shepherds of the churches to examine such things in the light of God’s Word, and to provide the flocks with sound teaching about them.  Sadly, given the appalling state of what passes for Christianity today, very few are willing to do so.

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