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PopeWatch: Marxist Schism

 

Don’t look now but the schism has begun in Germany:

 

.- The head of the German bishops’ conference told Vatican officials last week that addressing controversial theological topics during the German bishops’ proposed “binding synodal path” will be a service to the universal Church.

“We hope that the results of forming an opinion [on these matters] in our country will also be helpful for the guidance of the Universal Church and for other episcopal conferences on a case-by-case basis. In any case, I cannot see why questions about which the Magisterium has made determinations should be withdrawn from any debate, as your writings suggest,” Cardinal Reinhard Marx wrote in a Sept. 12 letter to Cardinal Marc Ouellet, who is head of the Vatican’ Congregation for Bishops.

“Countless believers in Germany consider [these issues] to be in need of discussion,” Marx added.

Marx’s letter informed the Vatican that the German synodal process will continue as planned, despite recent instructions from the Vatican curia and pope, and will treat matters of universal teaching and discipline. 

The letter followed a week of coverage concerning plans by the German bishops to create a Synodal Assembly with “deliberative power” to address issues including the separation of power in the Church, priestly life, women’s access to ministry and office in the Church, and sexual morality.

The letter was a response to the Vatican’s most recent intervention in German preparations for a synodal process, in which Ouellet sent Marx a four-page legal assessment of the German plans, which concluded that the Synodal Assembly is contrary to instructions from Pope Francis and “not ecclesiologically valid.”

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Don L
Don L
Wednesday, September 18, AD 2019 3:57am

It’ll be far too easy to utter, “there go the Germans again, but I’ll say it anyway. Schism is never desirable, but neither is cutting off one’s leg, unless the gangrene has gone too far.

Ernst Schreiber
Ernst Schreiber
Wednesday, September 18, AD 2019 6:58am

And here we see why all that nonsense about about an American schism wasn’t just nonsense, but misdirection and distraction.

Ernst Schreiber
Ernst Schreiber
Wednesday, September 18, AD 2019 7:03am

I’m sure formal schism will be avoided, since the Vatican will opt to pretend that clear directives were more like friendly suggestions.

ken
ken
Wednesday, September 18, AD 2019 7:33am

Ernst, since Francis hasn’t bothered to correct the Polish or Kazakhastan bishops who have rejected Amoris Laetitia you are probably correct.

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