Archbishop Gänswein gives extensive interview on St Gallen Mafia, synodality and homosexuality in the Church

Catholic Conclave ^ | 11 June 2023 | CG

[Gillibrand1]

Your Excellency, this year marks ten years since the resignation of Pope Benedict. There is enormous moral and doctrinal chaos in many countries of the world - in Europe, in Germany, and especially in the USA and Latin America. I am of course talking about the Church. Should we not perhaps yearn for the calm, theological reflection of Pope Benedict? Don't we need today his sense of the Church's tradition?

You have now outlined a picture, which looks somewhat dramatic. From my point of view, the situation is very turbulent indeed, and in turbulent times it is important to have a good anchor, so to speak, which helps not to get lost, not to lose depth and not to lose a clear view of into the future.

[JesusIsLord]

Archbishop Gänswein gives extensive interview on St Gallen Mafia, synodality and homosexuality in the Church

Some excerpts from the referenced interview with Archbishop Gänswein:

"It is not decisive what the individual bishop or bishops wants, but that, that the bishop is not obliged to preach his own theories, but to proclaim the Word of God in the name of the Church in the light of Catholic tradition, and also to defend it.  I have nothing more to say on this subject. "

" Every person can be blessed: whether homosexual or not homosexual, but the blessing of a relationship  is not about blessing one or other person, but the relationship itself as such.  - Which is clearly contrary to the position of the Church, built on the basis of ecclesiastical, Christian, biblical anthropology.  I repeat, if the bishops do not agree with this,  this is more reason for an examination of conscience than for noisy  propaganda - regardless of which country they are from.  Now you have mentioned two or three countries.  I have heard that too.  I can only express my astonishment at this."

Question posed by the interviewer: "Another important topic is that of interreligious dialogue.  Pope Benedict was, it seems to me, cautious about inter-religious dialogue.  In 2000, he published the declaration Dominus Iesus.  But then we had the Pachamama scandal at the Vatican, the Abu Dhabi declaration, the construction of the Abrahamic Family House in Abu Dhabi.  How would Pope Benedict feel?  Did he not think they contradicted Dominus Iesus?"

My takeaway:

The Archbishop repeats the orthodox position of the Church through its magisterium on a number of subjects. What I don't hear is Pope Francis rebuking and excommunicating Bishops and priests who are teaching false doctrine. I believe this is because the Pope himself is aligned with some of the false doctrines. Remember, a legal perspective is that silence is agreement. The Pope has either been silent on many controversial anti-Christian subjects or has provided a meaningless word salad that fails to correct false doctrine.

[ebb tide]

How far the influence of these Cardinals was present and perceived at the 2013 conclave, I cannot say. I do not know. It is not that. don't want to say, I just don't know. I cannot honestly say anything about it.

Ganswein sounds like Sergent Schultz on Hogan's Hero's.