Posted on 01/26/2023 7:47:30 PM PST by MurphsLaw
CNA Newsroom, Jan 25, 2023
In an interview published Wednesday, Pope Francis decried the German Synodal Way as elitist, unhelpful, and running the risk of bringing ideological harm to Church processes.
“The German experience does not help,” the pontiff told Associated Press when asked about the controversial process, explaining that dialogue should involve “all the people of God.”
The 86-year-old pontiff contrasted the German event, which is not a synod, with the universal Church’s recently extended Synod on Synodality.
Francis said on Tuesday that the global synod’s aim was to “help this more elitist (German) path so that it does not end badly in some way, but so is also integrated into the Church.”
While Pope Francis did not delve into details of the demands made in Germany, he plainly described the Synodal Way as perilous.
“Here the danger is that something very, very ideological trickles in. When ideology gets involved in church processes, the Holy Spirit goes home, because ideology overcomes the Holy Spirit,” he said in the wide-ranging interview that also included remarks about the Church’s stance on homosexuality, the loss of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI — and his health.
Since its launch by Cardinal Reinhard Marx in 2019, the German Synodal Way has courted controversy.
Participants have voted in favor of draft documents calling for the priestly ordination of women, same-sex blessings, and changes to Church teaching on homosexual acts, prompting accusations of heresy and fears of schism.
Concerns have been publicly raised by Church leaders from Poland, the Nordic countries, and around the world.
Fears of a “dirty schism” from Germany have increased over the past few months, as organizers of the Synodal Way in November refused a moratorium on the process suggested by the Vatican.
In his interview published Wednesday, Pope Francis insisted: “Always try to unite.”
Just two days earlier, on Monday, the latest Vatican intervention against the Synodal Way revealed that even participants in the process are anything but united: Five German bishops, it was reported, had asked Rome to clarify concerns over a synodal council.
Participants of the German Synodal Way in September 2022 voted to create such a controlling body that would permanently oversee the Church in Germany.
The Vatican stated in a letter published Jan. 23 that the Germans are not authorized to install a permanent synodal council to oversee the Church in Germany. The missive was formally approved by Pope Francis.
Despite all these interventions, the Synodal Way — “Synodaler Weg” in German, sometimes translated as the Synodal Path — is currently still expected to continue as planned by its organizers. The next (and so far final) synodal assembly is scheduled to take place in Frankfurt in March.
‘Pope Francis insisted: “Always try to unite.”’
Bergoglio doesn’t practice what he preaches. Instead of trying to keep traditionalists in the fold, he’s hellbent on trying to drive us off.
Watch what he does, not what he says. He’s delighted.
If Francis is against it, I probably should be for it.
Who claims the Holy Ghost is speaking through these evil Sin-Nods?
And who has encouraged Batzing?
Francis Stokes Up German Bishops’ Rebellion
Pay no mind to the crocodile tears, Murph.
So am I to understand the GERMAN thing is promoting homos and women priests?
Writing wasn’t really good and clear on what is what.
If so, I’d have to agree with Francis.
The Germans’ Sin-Nod is no different than Bergoglio’s Sin-Nod.
The Germans are just not as sneaky as Jorge.
The German bishops make Francis look like Rush Limbaugh. He’s not always as leftwing as the headlines make him out to be.
Too Late.
Catholics decry Bergoglio's Synodal Way as 'both evil and dangerous'.
And no different than the Germans'.
On this site we have many hundreds of discussions about the present Pope and his actions in our Catholic Church. The answer is quite simple. The Pope is philosophically a Marxist by decrees and deeds as prior a left wing cardinal in Argentina and today The Pope. I myself suspect if he is even a Christian by faith.
Today I attend church in a small traditional Baptist Church as my “Church of Rome” is no more. I would most like to return to The Church of Rome, it left me I did not leave it.
They are now saying in Germany on the katholisch.de website, “The Pope’s criticism of the development of the Synodal Way was unmistakable in the interview. But it was clearly more differentiated and ready for dialogue than the headline “neither helpful nor serious” suggested.”
They would say that
Aren't we Easter People supposed to be more optimistic- than pessimistic?
Peace and Joy?
"So you're telling me, there's a chance..."
(Or it was just Jim Carrey's voice I heard...)
It’s certain been a “trying” pontificate….
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