Posted on 06/07/2023 9:02:23 AM PDT by ebb tide
Since the conclusion of the German Synodal Way’s final assembly on March 11, there has been a dearth of publicly available details about the status of the next phase of the process: the synodal committee, a transitory body set to begin Nov. 10, with the expressed purpose of laying the groundwork for the establishment of a permanent synodal council of bishops and laypeople, which has been forbidden by the Vatican as currently proposed.
But for the second time in as many months, the German lay association co-organizing the synodal proceedings with the German bishops has issued a public statement that may reveal what’s going on behind closed doors — and may indicate that “the synodals” (the name local media has given to backers of the Synodal Way) are worried that the process may be hitting a roadblock.
While the leadership of the Central Committee of German Catholics (ZdK) asserted in May that they would no longer accept the bishops’ ability to veto decisions in synodal proceedings, a possible sign that they don’t have the episcopal support needed to cross the Vatican’s “red line” and establish a Synodal Council, the ZdK addressed a very different topic in their June 1 press release: an appeal to the German bishops to fund the next step of the process.
In typical fashion, ZdK’s president, Irme Stetter-Karp, was assertive and brazen in her quoted remarks. “We expect the German bishops to continue the process of reforming the Synodal Path,” she said in the statement, which also described the “reluctance of some bishops, which has become public today, to provide the planned synodal committee with the necessary funds” as “irritating.” The statement goes on to describe Stetter-Karp’s ominous observation that “breach of word destroys credibility,” as a warning, and ...
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The good news is that Bergoglio might have cancer and will soon be in a warmer place.
Then maybe the good Catholics can wrest back control of their church from the atheists, faggots, and socialists.
Is that likely, considering that cardinals were the ones who installed him to begin with?
I don’t know. But one would hope that the Catholic leadership is watching the faithful rebel against faggotry and socialism in the mainstream Protestant churches and maybe they’ll not want to see that happen in the RCC.
Or maybe those Catholic leaders need to be purged and replaced with people who actually believe in the Holy Trinity and the catechism of their church.
I wish I was optimistic. It seems to me Frankee has filled the Vatican with fellow travelers so his successor may be just as bad if not worse.
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