Posted on 10/23/2022 6:36:46 PM PDT by marshmallow
ROME — Australian Cardinal George Pell has warned that the wayward Catholic Church in Germany will only grow worse without serious corrections from Rome.
There has been much talk in recent years of “synodality” as a key characteristic of the Catholic Church, a vague term used to suggest greater participation and dialogue among the faithful, but such an emphasis can be counterproductive, Cardinal Pell argues in his Oct. 12 essay in the National Catholic Register.
There have only been 21 councils in Catholic history, notes the former head of the Vatican’s economic secretariat, and this infrequency is significant.
“Neither should synods become too frequent, become a competitor with prayer, worship and service,” he writes. “And history reminds us to be careful, not to build up false expectations, not to unleash forces which can escape our control.”
A case in point is the Church in Germany, Pell suggests, which has begun questioning or even refuting central Catholic teachings under the synodal banner.
“The synodal process has begun disastrously in Germany, and matters will become worse unless we soon have effective papal corrections on, for instance, Christian sexual morality,” the cardinal writes.
“We find no precedents in Catholic history for the active participation of ex-Catholics and anti-Catholics in such bodies,” such as is now happening in Germany, he adds.
“Every synod has to be a Catholic synod, bound by the apostolic Tradition, just as Councils are so bound,” he notes. “To allow serious heresies to continue undisturbed is undermining and damaging the unity of the One, True Church.”
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Man-made religion, man-made rules.....give me a break anymore.
Utter nonsense.
All of it.
Pell is right, of course. But that doesn’t seem to matter to anyone these days.
It was founded by Jesus Christ.
Take it up with Him.
Go follow your Martin Luthers, John Calvins and Joel Olsteens.
Man-made walls, made-up rules, the Joel Olsteens and Popes of the world were NOT founded by Christ.
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