“most German Catholics disputed Church bans on birth control and premarital or gay sex and criticized rules barring the divorced from remarriage in church”
Then they need to find themselves another faith because the doctrine of the Catholic Church is not changing. Would be willing to bet that 90% of these cafeteria catholics show up for Mass at Easter and Christmas and that’s it.
A majority of an entire nation of Catholics with a whimsical view of morality? How did that happen?