Posted on 09/16/2019 11:25:03 AM PDT by ebb tide
Disintegrating Church: Germans Tell Vatican Off
Few people know that the rich German bishops are organizing their own Amazon Synod which they call “Synodaler Weg” – “Synodal Way.” Its goal is to push for so-called reforms. However, days ago, Cardinal Marc Ouellet, the head of the Congregation for Bishops, timidly wrote to the Germans telling them that their “Synodal Way” was dealing with matters that were not up for discussion in a particular Church, but touched matters that regarded the universal Church. However, the German bishops were all but amused by Ouellet’s letter.
Angry Response
Cardinal Reinhard Marx, the President of the German Bishops’ Conference, sent an angry letter to his alleged confrere Cardinal Ouellet. In this letter, Marx told him that he should have talked to the Germans before sending them a letter. In order to maximise the damage, Marx leaked the letter to the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, a leading German oligarch newspaper. It is no mystery that the Germany bishops are more loyal to the oligarchs than to the Church of Christ.
Primitive Argument
Marx’s argument is very primitive. He tells Ouellet that the “Synodal Way” does not have a canonical form and therefore cannot be judged by Canon Law. This is an old trick which has been used many times before. In order to dodge their obligations under Church law, the bishops put up parallel structures like “Synodal ways” which do not exist in the Church. This way, they believe that they can refuse any legal accountability for what they are doing. In other words: The new method of running the Church must be called “anarchy”.
The Hidden Factor
Marx takes as a pretext for his de facto Synod, the hyped-up homosexual abuses which according to him have produced – quote - “a massive credibility crisis of the Church” – as if the Church had not lost its “credibility” – with whom? - a long time before that. Marx pontificates that – quote – unnamed “scientists” had expressed the suspicion that there are allegedly systemic, negative factors of influence in the Church which favour such abuse. However, the only reason why abuses happen is because Catholic morals are not only not observed, but even ridiculed by Modernist bishops like Marx.
Lost Credibility
Germany is not a country where the abuse hype made big waves. And still, the credibility of the German Church is at a low point. The reason for this is that the alleged reforms of Pope Francis were introduced in Germany decades ago. Last year, over 200,000 nominal faithful left the German Church, 30% more than a year before. Germany is a deeply secularized country, and one of the most secularized and ungodly parts of society is the Catholic Church.
Ping
Playing good cop/bad cop and attempting to fool the Almighty is a true fools’ game.
God is not mocked.
It’s fair to wonder why the Vatican sent any letter at all, certainly reported to be one of correction, to Cardinal Marx.
After all, Bergoglio has for years entertained the unholy dissidents who came before him, advanced their every thought and cause, giving them sway and authority to pronounce and to write up the meeting agendas, favoring their sinful musings and unworthy projects, in all the various synods and many conferences, while surrounding himself with gays and sympathizers of every vice..
I really don’t get it.
Especially with the Amazon fiasco looming and reportedly with a still filled to the brim Agenda, with nothing much even remotely related to the Traditional Catholic faith, Church and Magisterial practices, or canon law, why the fuss at Germany???
The Pope and the desparate Vatican secretaries and the various step-and-fetch-its have each and all fully invested themselves in off-the-rails activities throughout this pontificate while encouraging others to do the same, for years, now.
It's all Bergoglio's "smoke and mirrors" scheme to deny accountability. He puts Ponius Pilate to shame. Francis has two Sin-Nods coming up: his sanctioned Amazon Sin-Nod and the unsanctioned Germans' Sin-Nod. Both Sin-Nods have the same goal, but he'll only feign opposition to one of them.
Now, that makes some sense. Playing both ends against the middle. Triangulating!
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