Concerned German Catholics Publish Reform Initiative Opposing Controversial Synodal Path

National Catholic Register ^ | October 1, 2021 | Edward Pentin

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Concerned German Catholics Publish Reform Initiative Opposing Controversial Synodal Path

The group of German lay faithful contend that the Synodal Path, which has ignored repeated corrections from the Vatican, is promoting disunity and paving the way for schism.

VATICAN CITY — As the second high-level meeting of the German Church’s Synodal Path opened in Frankfurt on Thursday, a group of German lay faithful published their own manifesto of reform that criticizes the multi-year process for promoting disunity, falling short of conditions for genuine reform, and paving the way for schism.

Called “Neuer Anfang” (New Beginning — A Manifesto for Reform), the authors of the campaign acknowledge the need for “foundational reform” of the Church but argue that the abuse crisis that triggered the Synodal Path has been “instrumentalized” in order to implement “a well-known political-ecclesiastical agenda.” 

The Synodal Path, which began in January 2020 and is slated to end next February, aims to tackle key issues it says arise from the clerical sex abuse crisis. The focus is on four separate themes, in discussions each headed by a bishop and a layperson: power and authority, sexual morality, priestly life, and the role of women in the Church.

But the process has been criticized as a means to push through highly contentious and forbidden changes, many affecting the universal Church, such as the ordination of women and the blessing of same-sex unions, as well as radical reform of the sacramental and hierarchical structure of the Church.

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