Vatican publishes cardinals’ critiques of German ‘synodal way’
The cardinals’ reports were delivered to the German bishops on the last day of their ad limina visit to Rome.
But he said that the synodal way’s proposals raised “serious difficulties from an anthropological, pastoral, and ecclesiological point of view,” referring to criticisms that they could lead to schism.
The Canadian cardinal said he understood that German bishops were not seeking a break with the universal Church, but were making “concessions” under “very strong cultural and media pressure.”
“It is striking, however, that the agenda of a limited group of theologians from a few decades ago has suddenly become the majority proposal of the German episcopate: abolition of compulsory celibacy, ordination of viri probati, access of women to the ordained ministry, moral re-evaluation of homosexuality, structural and functional limitation of hierarchical power, reflections on sexuality inspired by gender theory, major proposed changes to the Catechism of the Catholic Church, etc,” he said.
“‘What happened?’ and ‘Where have we ended up?’ many believers and observers ask in astonishment. It is difficult to avoid the impression that the extremely serious matter of the abuse cases has been exploited to push through other ideas not directly related to it.”
He added that the synodal way appeared to seek the “transformation of the Church” and “not only pastoral innovations in the moral or dogmatic field,” arguing that this “hurts the communion of the Church because it sows doubt and confusion among the people of God.”
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By now, we surely know that every time a defense of the Church comes from the current regime in the Vatican, it is soon followed by a dispiriting surrender to the Church of Novelty. Should we expect anything different now? There are two important points we must consider before we swallow the latest offering from the Vatican:
1) The German Bishops are doing the bidding of Francis, but they are doing it a bit too fast. Their impatience for change could well be a "trial balloon" used by the Vatican to get a more accurate pulse of public opinion. Have we all forgotten Francis' episode of political theater with Cardinal Marx's "resignation"? The managed decline of the Church has a timetable, and Francis will hold his people to his timetable.
2) For all of their calculated diplomatic language, does anyone honestly think that the German bishops are going to back down?
The bad news: Germany represents the inevitable end of Francischurch. The good news: Francischurch might hold sway for some brief period, but it is as doomed and unsustainable as the current Novus Ordo Establishment. Life support only lasts so long.
By now, we surely know that every time a defense of the Church comes from the current regime in the Vatican, it is soon followed by a dispiriting surrender to the Church of Novelty. Should we expect anything different now? There are two important points we must consider before we swallow the latest offering from the Vatican:
1) The German Bishops are doing the bidding of Francis, but they are doing it a bit too fast. Their impatience for change could well be a "trial balloon" used by the Vatican to get a more accurate pulse of public opinion. Have we all forgotten Francis' episode of political theater with Cardinal Marx's "resignation"? The managed decline of the Church has a timetable, and Francis will hold his people to his timetable.
2) For all of their calculated diplomatic language, does anyone honestly think that the German bishops are going to back down?
The bad news: Germany represents the inevitable end of Francischurch. The good news: Francischurch might hold sway for some brief period, but it is as doomed and unsustainable as the current Novus Ordo Establishment. Life support only lasts so long.
Somehow, my post accidentally went up twice. Could you please delete one of them and not post this one either? I don't know why you keep posting these accidents when you could easily delete ONE of the posts.
Thank you,
Jerome Merwick,
ANd the demographic sinkhole keeps expanding. On my street alone, there are 8 homes, and 7 households were formerly Catholic. Some of these folks go nowhere and others to conservative, evangelical type Churches. Strange that there is a market for conservatives that which our Church has missed.
The German Church gets an inordinate amount of press. Hardly anyone goes to Mass in Germany and but for the Government subsidies, the Church would be dead there. They don't need 60 bishops. For the numbers of Church going Catholics, they need one and the Pope should declare it mission country. Maybe a modern day St. Boniface would show up to re-Catholicize the country.
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