Polish Catholics issue scathing critique of Synod’s final document: ‘Deeply anti-Catholic’

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Polish Catholics issue scathing critique of Synod’s final document: ‘Deeply anti-Catholic’
‘If we allow the Catholic Church to be replaced by a Synodal Church, we will crucify the Mystical Body of Christ

 with our own hands and drive a nail into His coffin,’ warned Polish Catholics.



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Jun 9, 2026
(LifeSiteNews) — Polish Catholics have published a scathing and thorough critique of the Vatican Synod on Synodality’s Final Document on moral issues, denouncing it as “deeply anti-Catholic.”

Dr. Artur Dąbrowski, president of Catholic Action of the Archdiocese of Częstochowa, submitted an open letter addressed to priests and synodal group participants on behalf of Polish Catholics who are “seriously alarmed” by the Synod’s Working Group No. 9 report, which falsely suggested that homosexual activity is not sinful.

The letter specifically addresses the Final Document of the Synod on Synodality issued on October 26, 2024, accusing it of mirroring the heterodox German “Synodal Path,” which is “aimed at decentralizing and relativizing doctrine.” The Polish Catholics state that the report goes so far as to give a “framework for the Church’s new identity” that replaces the “unchanging Deposit of Faith” with a new “ideology of inclusivity,” which fails to lead souls to salvation.

The letter points out, as have other scholars, that the synodal report uses a dangerous method to reach its conclusions, a method that essentially elevates the opinions of even those who reject Church teaching to the status of the “voice” of the Holy Spirit.

Under the synodal “dialogue” process, participants are given only two minutes to speak, “without the right to debate,” making a “substantive defense of Church teaching” impossible, the letter notes. “This method deliberately equates the voice of those who faithfully adhere to Church teaching with the voices of those who openly contest it,” the Poles state.

Instead of calling Catholics to moral conversion — the true meaning of the word in the context of faith — the document refers to conversion as a “purely mental” process, stating that the “condition for the Church’s new mission is ‘the conversion of the feelings, images, and thoughts present in our hearts […].’” It speaks of a “conversion of relationships,” of “decision-making processes,” and of “conversion of structures.”

“This phrasing exposes the authors’ intention: the goal is not, therefore, a transformation of life in the light of the Gospel, but a profound revision of the Catholic perception of reality,” the letter states.

The Polish Catholics point to a serious error in point 28 of the document, which claims that synodality is a “constitutive dimension of the Church.” This means that synodality is a key part of the Church, a “condition of its existence.” In other words, “without synodality — there is no Church!”

This is not just a false claim but an attempt at a “usurpation” of the Divine Constitution of the Church, according to the letter.

“For it must be forcefully recalled that it was Jesus Christ Himself who laid the foundations of the Church and that He defined its unchanging nature: the Church is Holy, Universal (Catholic), and Apostolic. No hierarch, not even the Pope, has the right to alter this Constitution,” the letter declares.

The Polish Catholics continue with examples of the document’s blows at the Catholic faith.

Paragraph 33, they note, appears to undermine the meaning of the priesthood when it states that “Synodality provides the most appropriate interpretive context for understanding the hierarchical priesthood itself.” This falsely suggests that priests are subject to a kind of democratic process by which they answer to the people.

As the letter states, “This is a glaring reversal of the order: it is no longer the shepherd who guards the flock, but the bureaucratic framework that becomes the judge over the shepherd.”

Worse, the document goes on to suggest a “desacralization” of worship and of the Eucharist. Without declaring the doctrine of the Real Presence or the Reality of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, the document states that “The Eucharist, above all else, demonstrates that the harmony created by the Spirit is not uniformity and that every ecclesial gift is destined for the common good of all.”

It also claims “there is a close link between synaxis and synodos, between the Eucharistic assembly and the synodal assembly,” drawing a false comparison while again totally ignoring the reality of what the Mass is: the unbloody sacrifice of Christ to God the Father.

“The liturgy is a listening to the Word of God and a response to His covenantal initiative,” states the synod document, in a total mischaracterization of the essence of the liturgy. It goes on to compare this false representation to the synodal process: “Similarly, the synodal assembly is a listening to this same Word, which resounds as much in the signs of the times as in the hearts of the faithful, and also a response of the assembly that is discerning God’s will in order to put it into practice.”

The Polish Catholics then lament the document’s “abuse” of the Blessed Virgin Mary by minimizing her role in paragraph 29, which says She is “a figure of the Church […] who listens, prays, reflects, engages in dialogue, accompanies, discerns, decides, and acts.”

“Mary at the foot of the cross is a model of sharing in the suffering of her Son’s Sacrifice, not the patroness of administrative procedures,” states the letter, noting that reducing the Blessed Mother’s role to the above description “ultimately strip[s] Marian devotion of its supernatural character.”

“The foundation for the ultimate deconstruction of Truth” in the document, according to the Poles, is its weaponization of Vatican II’s declaration that “all the faithful possess a sense of the Gospel Truth called sensus fidei and that they possess […] the ability to intuitively grasp what is in accordance with the truth of Revelation in the communion of the Church.”

The document takes Lumen Gentium’s statement out of context, since it says that “the supernatural sense of faith (sensus fidei) manifests itself only when the People of God remain obedient to the Magisterium (under its guidance)[.]”

The Synodal Final Document falsely concludes, then, that “Therefore, the Church is certain that the holy People of God cannot err in faith when the body of the baptized expresses a general consensus on matters of faith and morals.” This distorted idea can then be used as an excuse to sanction immoral behavior, such as homosexuality, on the basis that a majority of self-proclaimed Catholics accept such behavior.

A concrete example of the danger of this way of thinking has already been demonstrated during the synodal process in Poland, noted the open letter. Cardinal Grzegorz Ryś, Metropolitan of Kraków, invited the “transgender” Marek (aka “Maria”) Minakowski to participate in the Second Pastoral Synod of the Archdiocese of Kraków, and he was appointed Secretary of the Synodal Group. He has openly admitted that the synod is a “milestone” in changing the Church “from within,” asking those of like mind: “Help push this further (…) once we get the ‘T’ (transgender demands) sorted out, the rest of the LGBTQIA+ community will follow naturally.”

The Final Document also promotes a false ecumenism, declaring that the Church’s dialogue with non-Christian religions is for the purpose of “establishing friendship, peace, harmony, and the sharing of moral and spiritual values and experiences in the spirit of Truth and love” — not conversion, not unity in truth.

“The height of relativism in paragraph 41 is the call to implore the one God together with them,” the Polish Catholics write.

“The suggestion that we pray to the same God as adherents of systems that reject the divinity of Christ is a betrayal of Jesus and His salvific mission,” they admonish. “The Synodal Church no longer proclaims to the world that ‘no one comes to the Father except through the Son’ (Jn 14:6). Where is obedience to the Word of God: ‘Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit’ (Mt 28:19).”

“What is the goal guiding the authors of the Final Document?” the letter’s authors ask. The answer, they say, lies in point 4 of the Final Document: a false unity “of Christians,” which “quietly matures” within the Church. The synodal document “seem[s] to ignore the fact that true unity is not the fruit of negotiations, but remains intact in the Catholic Church, which alone has preserved sacramental integrity,” the Poles observe.

They predict that the “ultimate fruit” of the Vatican Synod, “the culmination of this unity, equality, and brotherhood—which will unite the faiths of all nations—will be the church of a single world religion… It is a church without the Cross—and it is called Babel.”

“To this attempt to transform the Kingdom of the Triune God into an earthly paradise called Babel, we, the Faithful of the Catholic Church, respond: NON POSSUMUS!”

The authors conclude that the Final Document of the Synod on Synodality “resembles a communist manifesto in spirit and is deeply anti-Catholic.”

They call upon their shepherds for a “clear position” on the Final Document, not “diplomatic evasions.”

“If we allow the Catholic Church to be replaced by a Synodal Church, we will crucify the Mystical Body of Christ with our own hands and drive a nail into His coffin.”