[Catholic Caucus] German bishops declare that ‘transsexual’ persons should not be ‘excluded’ from priesthood in 38-7 vote

The document states that ‘intersex and transsexual’ persons who want to be priests ‘must not be excluded across the board’ and that gender-confused people may change the sex entry on their baptismal forms.

FRANKFURT AM MAIN (LifeSiteNews) — The members of the heretical German Synodal Way have voted overwhelmingly in favor of a document replete with gender ideology that seeks to allow changing one’s listed sex on a baptismal certificate and paves the way for “transgender” priests.

The text entitled “Dealing with gender diversity” was approved by more than 95% of all votes on March 11 during the fifth Synodal Assembly in Frankfurt am Main. Of the 58 German bishops, only seven voted against the text, while 13 abstained. As journalist Martin Bürger noted in a CNA Deutsch article, if the bishops who abstained had voted “no” instead, the document’s approval could have been blocked due to the required two-thirds majority for bishops.

READ: No room for ‘inclusion’: Homosexuality and transgenderism are sins against nature itself

The document stated that for intersex and “transsexual” Catholics, “it is made possible to omit the gender entry in the baptismal register or, as now provided for in German law, to enter ‘diverse,’” and that “[i]f the desire to change the gender entry arises at a later date, this is granted in an uncomplicated manner.”

Moreover, the text challenges the solely male priesthood by calling for the possibility of “transgender” priests:

Access to holy orders and pastoral vocations must also be examined in each individual case for intersex and transsexual baptized and confirmed persons who sense a vocation for themselves and must not be excluded across the board.

The document furthermore seeks to eliminate the requirement for priests to have male biology: “The determination of the state of the external sexual characteristics is to be abolished where it should still be practiced in the course of the acceptance of a man as a candidate for the priesthood.”

The heterodox text also calls for “LGBTI* commissioners” to “be appointed in all (arch)dioceses, if possible” to guarantee “spiritual guidance for transgender and intersex faithful characterized by acceptance.”

“In parishes and Catholic institutions, appropriate educational programs and offerings are to be set up to raise awareness and sensitivity for the topic of gender diversity,” the document reads.

Defying the Vatican again

On March 10, the Synodal Assembly approved the “blessings” of same-sex couples, in open defiance of Church teaching and the Vatican’s 2021 negative answer regarding the question of the “blessing” of same-sex unions.

READ: Germany’s Synodal Way approves same-sex ‘blessings’ in open defiance of Church teaching

The German bishops and lay members of the Synodal Way are now going directly against another Vatican directive, namely the 2019 document Male and female he created them by the Congregation for Catholic Education.

In their text on “gender diversity,” the members of the Synodal Way openly criticized the Vatican’s condemnation of gender ideology and claimed that such condemnation promotes “exclusion, violence, and persecution, from which the Church should actually protect.”

On the other hand, the document approved by the Synodal Assembly praised the heterodox declaration by the Australian bishops titled Created and Loved: A guide for Catholic schools on identity and gender, which promoted a change of “gender” and unisex toilets, along with advice to use students’ “preferred name” and pronouns.

READ: Australian bishops issue school policy endorsing gender ‘change,’ transgender bathrooms

The heterodox text from the Synodal Assembly furthermore calls on Pope Francis and the college of bishops to “explicitly distance ourselves as a Church from views that see intersex and transsexuality as a pathological, negative or even sinful deviation.”

Moving towards schism

Faithful Catholic bishops like Cardinal Gerhard Müller have repeatedly warned that the heterodox Synodal Way would lead to schism. Bishop Joseph Strickland of Tyler, Texas, denounced the “schismatic vote” of the German bishops who voted in favor of blessings for same-sex unions.

“The president of every Bishop’s Conference around the world should denounce the schismatic vote of the 38 German bishops who have voted to bless same sex unions,” Strickland wrote. “We must speak out and call them to return to Catholic teaching. They have hardened their hearts to the Truth.”

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Let us know when you kick THEM out for their unrepentant falsehoods

Exhibit A: Baptists ditch their leaders: https://religionnews.com/2022/05/23/a-timeline-of-the-southern-baptist-conventions-sexual-abuse-crisis/

Exhibit B: Jimmy Swaggart (remember him?) got kicked out of his Assemblies of God church: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-04-10-mn-1327-story.html

Exhibit C: The Assemblies of God convention boots an entire congregation for sticking to their local Hedonist leader: https://juicyecumenism.com/2021/03/25/assemblies-of-god-lgbt/

I could go on and on with examples like that.

Exhibit D: Then there are times the congregants boot the denomination, like the many Methodist churches that have left the United Methodist conference and joined the Global Methodist conference. Again, over Hedonism. When the Christians can't get the leaders to repent, the Christians' first choice is to get their local congregation to leave Hedonist larger conference.

Exhibit E: Then there are the many, many Christians who have left Hedonist Protestant churches and joined Christian churches not in their old denomination. https://www.christianitytoday.com/news/2022/august/nondenominational-growth-mainline-protestant-decline-survey.html

IMHO, the best way is for Catholics to not have yet another schism. So you're better off trying to implement A or B. But if that doesn't work, be prepared to implement D. And if that still doesn't work, do E. Many years ago I was kicked out of a United Methodist church after I realized that part of our donations went up to the national conference and they used some of that money to lobby abortion and was even just getting started to lobby for homosexuality being "accepted" (i.e. forced to approve). I was very calm when I'd meet the pastor alone and ask him how that happened and what we could do to stop it. He kept putting me off. After about 4 months of every now and then asking him to look into it, I went to our elders. Some of them brushed it off. A couple were surprised about it. A couple of them said it was the right thing to do with offering money. Eventually one of the elders got the pastor to kick me out of leading small kids and volunteering with youth.

I still attended that church for a while, still trying to convince the local leaders to talk to the global leaders about changing, but got nowhere. Eventually the pastor told me to leave and not come back, though he and I was alone when he told me that and he cried, asking me why I didn't do more to help reform the church. Though I didn't leave the church voluntarily, I guess I'd be more like the Christians in exhibit E than the others.

Oh, well. Months ago the young adults (young to me LOL) in that church (the ones I used to teach when they were kids that we can thank God best for being saved by grace by living it like we mean it) were leading the way for that local church to leave the Hedonist United Methodists and join the Global Methodists. I'm not saying I was their only influence, but I was part of that church's renewed holiness movement among the kids and teenagers (today's young adults). I hate that the leaders made it come to that. But I couldn't be prouder of those "kids". Their loyalty is more to Jesus than to their church membership.

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