Leading German Catholic Bishop Renews Intercommunion Call After Vatican Objections

Catholic News Agency ^ | 11/9/20

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CNA Staff, Nov 9, 2020 / 04:00 am MT (CNA).- Bishop Georg Bätzing, president of the German bishops’ conference, reaffirmed Sunday his view that intercommunion with Protestants should be possible, despite Vatican objections.

He made the comment in a Nov. 8 message to the Synod of the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD).

“The community in faith, which is already ecumenically visible in many ways, aims at a unity that will also be able to be experienced as a communion in the Eucharistic and the Lord’s Supper,” Bätzing wrote in the message.

He said he considered it “good” that a document produced by the Ecumenical Study Group of Protestant and Catholic Theologians (ÖAK), called “Together at the Lord’s Table,” had “rekindled the debate on the remaining open questions on the way” to what the paper calls “reciprocal Eucharistic hospitality” between Catholics and Protestants.

As CNA Deutsch, CNA’s German language news partner, reported, Bätzing continued: “I will undertake every effort in the bishops’ conference and also in dialogue with Rome to ensure that an intensive discourse is held on this issue and that the findings of the ecumenical dialogues are examined and acted upon.”

The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) said in September that the proposal made in “Together at the Lord’s Table,” issued in September 2019, did not do justice to the Catholic understanding of the Church, the Eucharist, and Holy Orders.

The 57-page text advocated “reciprocal Eucharistic hospitality” between Catholics and Protestants, based on previous ecumenical agreements on the Eucharist and ministry. In response, the CDF issued a letter Sept. 18, signed by CDF prefect Cardinal Luis Ladaria and secretary Archbishop Giacomo Morandi.

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So, all people of all religions and persuasions will be invited to mass on Sunday. They will add some singing for the new arrivals which will contradict the no singing policy.

The sermons will reflect the latest ideas presented by Frankie like the need to honor the greatness of the Pachamama and climate change, just to make the newcomers welcome.

And they will bring back the kiss of peace and the handshake and the two guys in front of you will do some tongue action in front of your children.

Then everyone will have to take an oath to Frankie coupled with the requirement for everyone to show the correct papers verifying that we have been duly vaccinated.

Nothing in the church will by then be holy. No saint or angel will have anything to do with this new church. No angels will ascend during the raising of the buttery croissants.

I wondered for years how we would be forced into the catacombs of home Masses. This will do it.

This is it and we are just around the corner. However, be rest assured Frankie will have about a month and a half to display his open love for Satan. While we take our love for Jesus elsewhere and wait for the Lord to make all things new.

As Saint John Paul said, "Be not afraid." God has willed it so and we have been prepared for the Good Fight.