Free Republic
Browse · Search
Religion
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

[Catholic Caucus] German bishop to share gay couples’ ‘experiences’ at Leo’s Amoris Laetitia summit
LifeSite News ^ | October 5, 2026 | LifeSite News Staff

Posted on 10/06/2026 8:01:31 AM PDT by ebb tide

[Catholic Caucus] German bishop to share gay couples’ ‘experiences’ at Leo’s Amoris Laetitia summit

Bishop Heiner Wilmer's stated intention to bring those experiences with him to the Vatican meeting signals a continued movement toward normalizing homosexuality within the Catholic Church.

The president of the German Bishops’ Conference (DBK) promised to bring the “experiences” of homosexual couples with him to Rome for the Vatican’s upcoming conference on Amoris Laetitia.

Bishop Heiner Wilmer, the DBK president, said that he prepared for the Vatican summit by meeting with a wide variety of couples – including same-sex couples and those living in a second civil marriage after a divorce – according to the German language news outlet katholisch.de.  

Bishop Wilmer’s stated intention to bring those experiences with him to the Vatican meeting signals a continued movement toward normalizing homosexuality within the Catholic Church.

Both Pope Francis and his successor, Pope Leo XIV, have welcomed LGBT proponents Father James Martin, S.J. and New Ways Ministry in private audiences.      

The Vatican’s upcoming conference will be held from October 7 to 14, exposing a tightly controlled structure designed to examine Pope Francis’ apostolic exhortation Amoris Laetitia by how the document has been “lived.”

Earlier this year, Pope Leo XIV praised Amoris Laetitia as a guiding text for the Church and signaled his intention to honor Pope Francis’ highly controversial apostolic exhortation, elements of which many consider to be heretical.  

In March, Pope Leo issued a message marking the 10th anniversary of Amoris Laetitia in which he described Francis’ post-synodal apostolic exhortation as a “luminous message of hope” and confirmed its central role in contemporary teaching on marriage and the family.

“On 19 March 2016, Pope Francis offered the universal Church a luminous message of hope regarding conjugal love and family life,” Pope Leo wrote. “On this tenth anniversary, we give thanks to the Lord for the stimulus that has encouraged reflection and pastoral conversion in the Church, and ask God for the courage to persevere on this path.”

In the Pope’s message, he explicitly placed Amoris Laetitia alongside Familiaris Consortio issued by John Paul II. “Since the Council, the two Apostolic Exhortations, Familiaris Consortio – issued by Saint John Paul II in 1981 – and Amoris Laetitia, have both strengthened the Church’s doctrinal and pastoral commitment to the service of young people, married couples and families.”

Contradicting John Paul II and many others, Amoris Laetitia states that “it can no longer simply be said that all those in any irregular situation are living in a state of mortal sin and are deprived of sanctifying grace. More is involved here than mere ignorance of the rule.”

In a searing analysis penned for LifeSiteNews in 2018, a priest who required anonymity maintained that Amoris Laetitia’s infamous Chapter 8 that allows individual conscience to trump objective moral law would effectively eliminate the notion of intrinsic moral evil.

“The real issue is not Holy Communion for the divorced and civilly remarried. After all, Pope Francis had already streamlined the annulment process, to allow declarations of nullity which were generally easy to attain, to be even easier,” he wrote.  

“The real issue is all about sodomy, and normalizing – even blessing – this behavior called by the Catechism ‘intrinsically disordered’” he explained.


TOPICS: Catholic; Current Events; Moral Issues; Theology
KEYWORDS: allcommentary; anticatholicpinglist; deliberatemisquote; editorialasnews; fakecatholicpinglist; homos; jackchickpinglist; libelismortalsin; liesitenews; mortalsin; pimpmysect; protestantpinglist; schismismortalsin; sodomy; sspxfakenews; sspxhypocrisy; synodalchurch; yourenotcatholic

Click here: to donate by Credit Card

Or here: to donate by PayPal

Or by mail to: Free Republic, LLC - PO Box 9771 - Fresno, CA 93794

Thank you very much and God bless you.


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-20, 21-22 next last

Leo XIV stacked the Amoris Laetitia summit with Cupich, McElroy, and Hollerich


1 posted on 10/06/2026 8:01:31 AM PDT by ebb tide
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: SavannahWonderer; Al Hitan; Fedora; irishjuggler; Jaded; kalee; markomalley; miele man; ...

Ping


2 posted on 10/06/2026 8:02:12 AM PDT by ebb tide (Bergoglio's synodal "church" is not the Catholic Church.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: SavannahWonderer

3 posted on 10/06/2026 8:17:30 AM PDT by ebb tide (Bergoglio's synodal "church" is not the Catholic Church.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: ebb tide

“German bishop to share gay couples’ ‘experiences’ at Leo’s Amoris Laetitia summit”. I don’t want to know what those ‘experiences’ are.


4 posted on 10/06/2026 8:40:33 AM PDT by kawhill (Dywedwch + Add translation Welsh-English dictionary 'Tell Us')
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: ebb tide

Whoever hurt you can’t do it any longer, it’s YOU that perpetuates the hurt.
Let go, learn to forgive, help yourself heal.
https://catholiceducation.org/en/culture/forgiveness.html


5 posted on 10/06/2026 12:43:39 PM PDT by SavannahWonderer (First do no harm)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: ebb tide

It’s obvious that you were abused.
Uncle, older cousin, someone really messed you up so you have been lashing out at everyone.
You need to find your way to the only one that can heal you, Jesus Christ.
Take the time to accept him and make the time to talk to a Catholic Priest. It is such a relief to talk to someone that will not judge but help heal and not barely listen but give you the attention that you need.
Get help man, they can’t hurt you any more


6 posted on 10/06/2026 12:55:34 PM PDT by SavannahWonderer (First do no harm)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: SavannahWonderer
It’s obvious that you were abused. Uncle, older cousin, someone really messed you up so you have been lashing out at everyone.

Whoever raised you was unable to beat the lies out of you because you're till telling them.

7 posted on 10/06/2026 1:07:18 PM PDT by ebb tide (Bergoglio's synodal "church" is not the Catholic Church.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies]

To: ebb tide

Anger, beating people, hate, constant references to immorality, hoping for failure, etc...
These are not the traits of an intact person. You were made in the image of God, which is good and someone has turned you against yourself.
Stay safe and please don’t let your issues lead you to inflict harm on yourself, others, or animals.


8 posted on 10/06/2026 1:25:13 PM PDT by SavannahWonderer (First do no harm)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies]

To: SavannahWonderer

Keep on lying, Pollanna Blunderer.

Your slander is a grave sin and God sees it.


9 posted on 10/06/2026 1:29:49 PM PDT by ebb tide (Bergoglio's synodal "church" is not the Catholic Church.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies]

To: ebb tide; SavannahWonderer; Cronos

Are these your keywords, ebby? Nasty, nasty, nasty.


10 posted on 10/06/2026 2:09:58 PM PDT by Oystir ( )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 9 | View Replies]

To: SavannahWonderer

Just know that others read your posts.


11 posted on 10/06/2026 3:17:56 PM PDT by nicollo (Trump beat the cheat! )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies]

To: nicollo

Some cry out for attention, some cry out for Christ.


12 posted on 10/06/2026 3:23:21 PM PDT by SavannahWonderer (First do no harm)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 11 | View Replies]

To: SavannahWonderer

Hmm, I wonder which Christ you cry out for. Definitely not Matthew 5.


13 posted on 10/06/2026 3:28:05 PM PDT by nicollo (Trump beat the cheat! )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 12 | View Replies]

To: nicollo

God Bless You


14 posted on 10/06/2026 4:01:34 PM PDT by SavannahWonderer (First do no harm)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 13 | View Replies]

To: SavannahWonderer
Some cry out for attention, some cry out for Christ.

Unlike you, Christ never lied nor slandered anyone.

15 posted on 10/06/2026 5:02:48 PM PDT by ebb tide (Bergoglio's synodal "church" is not the Catholic Church.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 12 | View Replies]

Comment #16 Removed by Moderator

To: anton; ebb tide

ebby this is what your/LieSite brings to FR. You and your keywords should be so full of pride.


17 posted on 10/06/2026 5:36:25 PM PDT by Oystir ( )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 16 | View Replies]

To: ebb tide

Try and find peace. Listen for Christ’s voice and block out the demons’ howling in your mind.
Again:
Stay safe and please don’t let your issues lead you to inflict harm on yourself, others, or animals.


18 posted on 10/06/2026 5:36:45 PM PDT by SavannahWonderer (First do no harm)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 15 | View Replies]

To: Oystir
Are these your keywords, ebby?

You're such a hypocrite, oystir. Most all of them are yours, deranged as they are.

19 posted on 10/06/2026 5:37:21 PM PDT by ebb tide (Bergoglio's synodal "church" is not the Catholic Church.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 10 | View Replies]

To: SavannahWonderer

I just finished my rosary; the Sorrowful Mysteries.

You were included in my intentions.


20 posted on 10/06/2026 5:38:18 PM PDT by ebb tide (Bergoglio's synodal "church" is not the Catholic Church.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 18 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-20, 21-22 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
Religion
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson