Who does he think he's fooling?
Ping
He’s fooling himself.
If he wants to restore the Church, he needs to abandon the “Synodal Way (to Hell)” and carry out a cultural change back to authentic, traditional, orthodox Catholic belief and practice.
Talk about stuck on stupid. A symptom of insanity is to keep on doing the same thing and expect a different result. And these are the people that want to form the rest of the Church into their own image? No thanks.
Commie Pope, socialist doctrine.
and mainline churches in the US are losing members in large numbers. The denominational leaders are changing their doctrine to modern culture and people are bailing out. Go woke and go broke!!
Thankfully, many local churches refuse to follow suit and are doing OK.
“The whole liturgical life of the Church revolves around the Eucharistic sacrifice and sacraments….Baptism, Confirmation or Chrismation, Eucharist, Penance, Anointing of the Sick, Holy Orders, and Matrimony” (CCC 1113)
“Through the Church’s sacraments, Christ communicates his Holy and sanctifying Spirit to the members of his Body.” (CCC 739)
“The communion of the sacraments…unite us to God” (CCC 951)
“Sacraments are ‘powers that come forth’ from the Body of Christ” (CCC 1116)
“The ordained priesthood guarantees that it really is Christ who acts in the sacraments” (CCC 1120)
“The three sacraments of Baptism, Confirmation, and Holy Orders confer, in addition to grace, a sacramental character or ‘seal’ by which the Christian shares in Christ’s priesthood and is made a member of the Church” (CCC 1121)
“the sacraments confers the grace they signify. They are efficacious” (CCC 1127)
“The Church affirms that for believers the sacraments of the New Covenant are necessary for salvation.” (CCC 1129)
“The fruit of the sacramental life is that the Spirit of adoption makes the faithful the partakers in the divine nature by uniting them in loving union with the only Son, the Savior” (CCC 1129) [Council of Trent in 1547]
“The New Law … uses the sacraments to communicate grace to us” (CCC 1983)
So what do the Bishops do? They close the Churches, kowtow to Governors, remove Holy Water, you can stream Mass, Confession is barred, no Annointing of the Sick...
Why are the faithful leaving? Some need any excuse to leave but many others are receiving the message "it doesn't really matter" only this life matters. Maybe the hierarchy doesn't have the courage of their convictions and are largely hypocrites.
Cultural change is what’s driving them away.
So, they are voting with their feet that German bishops are doing it wrong?
Yeah, more homosexuality and post-modern confusion. That’s the answer.
I really don’t know anything about this development, but is it just possible that this trend was caused by “cultural changes” they are trying to implement?
It takes a special sort of Teutonic arrogance to propose that the solution to your problems is to triple down on the liberal apostasy that’s driven people away in the first place, but there they go.
You know, I actually like many things about Germany, the cars, the beer, the glockenspiels, the pretty girls in dirndls, but there’s a strain of very destructive, poisonous arrogance that has permeated their culture for centuries. Going back to Luther and Nietzche and Hitler, these twin attitudes of “we know better than the rest of the world” and “we are better than the rest of the world” manifest themselves over and over within that society.
See y’all in hell.