IT SEEMS THAT POPE FRANCIS IS MANAGING TO ANGER, INFURIATE AND POLARIZE BOTH THOSE WHO ARE ORTHODOX AND THOSE WHO ARE HETERODOX

 

Wow! Bishop  Bätzing of Germany has said this about Pope Francis and his way to teach and communicate via befuddled and confusing interviews is “extremely questionable.”

I have always thought that the ultra-traditionalists who want the exclusive use of the TLM as well as the Church without the Vatican II documents, because they are so organized and passionate about their views, would be the first to go into a full blown schism, although not an apostasy as they, like most Eastern Orthodox Churches, still maintain the Catholic Faith. The Orthodox don’t accept Vatican II either. 

Apart from Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, there were no other bishops advocating what the archbishop was advocating and being disobedient to Pope Paul VI at first and then Pope St. John Paul II, later, who excommunicated him when he ordained bishops. 

This is not true with the German hierarchy where there is not only the potential for schism, but also apostasy. They are creating an apostate Church and damning Pope Francis and others who dare question the German way. It is a kind of fascism that Germans and the rest of us know all too well!

Thus, the heterodox pose the greatest threat to a schism and not only that, to apostasy. 

This is really too hot to handle, like a hot German potato:

READ CNA’S NEWS STORY IN FULL HERE

HERE ARE EXCERPTS FROM THE CNA ARTICLE:

Bishop Georg Bätzing has criticized Pope Francis and dismissed the pope’s recent words that the controversial German Synodal Way is unhelpful, damaging, and ideologically poisoned, saying the Germans had “fundamentally different views of synodality” than Rome. 

In an interview published Jan. 27, the president of Germany’s Bishops’ Conference said Bätzing, considered the pope’s “way of leading the Church by way of interviews” as “extremely questionable,” reported CNA Deutsch, CNA’s German-language news partner. Bätzing was referring to comments Pope Francis made about the Synodal Way, among other subjects, in a wide-ranging interview last week with the Associated Press. 

“Why didn’t the pope talk to us about this when we were with him in November?” Bätzing asked. “There would have been the opportunity, but he did not take the opportunity for discussion then.”

‘The brink of schism’

Cardinal Walter Kasper also warned the German bishops that they could not sidestep “the authority of the pope and ultimately the Second Vatican Council” or be undermined by “tricky reinterpretation.” 

A bishop cannot “subsequently renounce, in whole or in part, the authority conferred sacramentally in the succession of the apostles” by binding himself to a synodal council “without violating the responsibility conferred on him personally,” Kasper emphasized, according to CNA Deutsch. 

“Resistance to the letter from Rome, or attempts to slyly reinterpret and avoid it, despite all well-intentioned protestations, inevitably lead to the brink of schism and thus plunge the people of God in Germany into an even deeper crisis.”