THIS IS HOW YOU SPELL POLARIZATION LEADING TO SCHISM IN THE CATHOLIC CHURCH AND FOMENTED FROM THE HIGHEST ECHELONS OF THE CHURCH

From Germany home to the ancient Protestant Reformation we now have in the works a new Catholic Schism which could go virile!

Of course, progressive catholicism bases its claims on feeling, emotions and warm fuzzies, so convincing to so many.

Then you have those rigid, legalistic types, who worship truth and doctrine and dogmas, the Pharisees of the Catholic Church who could care less about those on the peripheries and who are so unwelcoming, so cold, so mean and so Catholic! 

Two bishops, two different c/Churches:

First, we have this church, so flexible, so loving, so accommodating, so welcoming, so Christ-like, who wouldn't want to belong:

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  German bishop calls for Christian unity at Corpus Christi procession

   The bishop of the Diocese of Essen, Germany, voiced support for allowing a Protestant married to a Catholic to receive Communion during his diocese’s annual Corpus Christi procession May 31.
  
  Bishop Franz-Josef Overbeck’s call comes amid continuing debate within the German Catholic Church about Protestants receiving the Eucharist.
  
  The Protestant community in the western German city welcomed his comments.
  Protestants, including clergy, participated in the Catholic procession for the first time in history along with about 2,000 people including members of diverse Catholic foreign-language communities.
  
  Overbeck cited St. John Paul II as an inspiration and called for greater unity among Christians during a time when the German Catholic Church remains split over the issue of Communion being given to Protestant spouses of Catholics.
  
  “Because we as baptized and believers accompany Christ, we are always on the path of unity,” Overbeck told people gathered for the observance. “That is why Pope John Paul II always greatly valued marriage of baptized persons belonging to different denominations because of their intrinsic value and because of their contribution to ecumenism.”
  
  Overbeck openly advocated for permitting Communion to be shared by spouses, citing ecumenism as part of the legacy of St. John Paul. He said also that Pope Francis is following in the saint’s footsteps.
  

  And then we have this Church of the rigid and inflexible, quite nasty and unappealing:

  

  Cdl. Woelki in Emotional Speech: Intercommunion Debate is About Life, Death

  Last Thursday, on the Feast of Corpus Christi, Cardinal Rainer Woelki, one of the seven German bishops who opposed the new German intercommunion handout allowing for some Protestant spouses of Catholics to receive Holy Communion, gave a moving speech at the end of the Procession and Pontifical Mass in his Cathedral of Cologne.
  
  In this speech, Cardinal Woelki made it clear that he will not give up the fight for the right way with regard to matters of intercommunion, saying that this question is not “nonsense,” but, rather: “Here, it is about questions of life and death!” “It is about death and resurrection. It is about eternal life,” Woelki added. “Here, it is about Christ, it is about His Church, and thus it goes straight to the heart of the matter.”
  
  The German cardinal and successor of Cardinal Joachim Meisner as the Archbishop of Cologne continued, saying:
  

  That is why we have to fight for it and to find the right path — not any path, but the Path of the Lord which He points out to us. He alone is the Way, the Truth, and the Life.

   My final comment: After the Schism, which c/Church will have the most admirers, I mean, members?