[ebb tide]

The closed-door meeting, masterminded by the German bishops’ conference under the leadership of Cardinal Marx, was first proposed at the annual meeting of the heads of the three bishops’ conferences, held in January in Marseille, France.

Cardinal Marx, a member in good standing in Francis' Gang o' Nine, had earlier said the German Church “cannot wait” for synodal statements, as marriage and family ministry has to be undertaken now, according to an article in Die Tagespost, translated by the blog Catholic Conclave.

Cardinal Marx, the archbishop of Munich and Freising, said as far as doctrine is concerned, the German episcopate remains in communion with the Church, but on individual issues of pastoral care, “the synod cannot prescribe in detail what we have to do in Germany.”

The German bishops want to publish their own pastoral letter on marriage and family after the synod, the article says.

“We are not just a subsidiary of Rome,” Cardinal Marx said. “Each episcopal conference is responsible for the pastoral care in their culture and has to proclaim the Gospel in its own unique way. We cannot wait until a synod states something, as we have to carry out marriage and family ministry here.”

https://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/german-bishops-we-are-not-just-a-subsidiary-of-rome/

The schism is in full bloom, and Francis ignores it.

[Army Air Corps]

“We are not just a subsidiary of Rome,” Cardinal Marx said. “Each episcopal conference is responsible for the pastoral care in their culture and has to proclaim the Gospel in its own unique way. We cannot wait until a synod states something, as we have to carry out marriage and family ministry here.”

So, incest would be okay, so long as it is part of the culture of the country.

[publius911]

Confidential Meeting Seeks to Sway Synod to Accept Same-Sex Unions

If the Catholic Church succumbs to this assault, it will finalize my disconnect with it.

I did not leave my church; it left me.

[icwhatudo]

Save the Church, Excommunicate them now!

[BlackElk]

"Moral theology must be 'liberated from the natural law???'"

Clearly there is nothing wrong with Fr. Schockenhof (and Cardinal Marx and the other disgraceful schimstics/heretics) that cannot be cured by burning them at the stake. As a punishment, it has a wondrous ability to concentrate the miscreants' mind(s), if any, on their respective moral failings and outrages.

[Ray76]

Disgraceful.

[Jeff Chandler]

I rest my case.

[Ouchthatonehurt]

Sounds like Cardinal Marx might have a thesis he wants to pin up on a door somewhere.

[allblues]

“French Biblicist and Ratzinger Prize-winner Anne-Marie Pelletier praised the dialogue that took place between theologians and bishops as a “real sign of the times.”

So true, but not in the way Pelletier thinks. The storm is nearly upon us.

[BlessedBeGod]

A rogue’s gallery of those influenced by satan, not the Holy Spirit.

[Paulie]

Hey, at least people will feel good about themselves again!

[mlizzy]

Father Schockenhoff? Name states it all....

[NKP_Vet]

The German church has been in “schism” for years. I would prefer these protestant wannable bishops to be excommunicated.

[StormPrepper]

When the Catholic Church finally gives into the pressure for gay marriage...there will only be one un-splintered world religion left that will stand up for traditional marriage of a man and a women. The Mormons.