Catholic Twilight Zone: What in hell is wrong with the Synodal Church?

Another abbey. Another museum piece. The stones remain. The nuns are gone. For sixty years Church leaders have held conferences, commissions, dialogues, listening sessions, and worst of all... synods. Yet the collapse of the Church continues. So, that's obviously not working, right? We can all agree on that? At an abbey-turned-hotel in France, Michael Matt asks a simple question: At what point can we stop listening to the world and start fixing the problem?

Michael Matt walks the grounds of a medieval French monastery and asks three questions:

Where have all the Catholics gone?

What hath Vatican II wrought?

Could Synodality possibly be any more irrelevant?

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Michael J. Matt

Michael J. Matt comes from a 160-year-old newspaper family legacy and has been the editor of The Remnant since 1994. He is the founder of Remnant TV and host of the popular Remnant Underground show. Michael Matt co-founded the annual Catholic Identity Conference and serves as its emcee. He has been U.S. Coordinator for Notre Dame de Chrétienté in Paris--the organization responsible for the Pentecost Pilgrimage to Chartres, France--since 2000. He is a lecturer for the Roman Forum's Summer Symposium in Gardone Riviera, Italy. He addresses conferences around the world on topics such as Catholic tradition, Church teachings, and contemporary issues affecting the Faith. Together with his wife, Carol Lynn and their seven children, Mr. Matt currently resides in St. Paul, Minnesota. Booking Information: For those interested in booking Michael Matt for speaking engagements, he is listed with the Catholic Speakers Organization, a platform to request his participation in events.

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