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Cardinal Hollerich: ‘If women do not feel comfortable in the church, we have failed.’The working document, or instrumentum laboris, for next October’s meeting of the Synod of Bishops is “taking up again” the teaching of the Second Vatican Council on the church by focusing on the missionary responsibility of all the baptized in the synodal church. That is what Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich, the relator general for next October’s synod, said in this exclusive interview with America’s Vatican correspondent.He emphasized the importance of the working document’s attention to affirming and promoting the role of women in the church in the 21st...

[Catholic Caucus] Cardinal Hollerich voices support for blessings of same-sex ‘couples,’ questions priestly celibacy'I am absolutely on the same line as the Pope' on blessing same-sex 'couples,' Cdl. Jean-Claude Hollerich said, adding, 'Why only care about below-the-belt morality?'Papal confidant Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich, Archbishop of Luxembourg, has voiced his support for the heterodox blessing of same-sex “couples” proposed by the Vatican’s December Declaration Fiducia Supplicans. In an interview with L’essentiel, Hollerich was asked about the mounting criticisms Pope Franics is facing for his approval of such blessings from bishops and bishops’ conferences – an approval he has doubled down on in...

[Catholic Caucus] LGBTQ Catholics subject of emotional debate at synod, participants sayThe second week of Pope Francis' closely watched summit on the future of the Catholic Church included emotional debates among bishops and lay delegates over whether the church's ministries could be expanded to include LGBTQ persons.In interviews with multiple delegates from three different continents, NCR has confirmed that during the Synod of Bishop's Oct. 9-12 discussions on the theme of "communion," tensions began to emerge over how the church might extend its welcome to LGBTQ Catholics and whether use of the acronym "LGBTQ" was even appropriate. For at least...

[Catholic Caucus] New ‘Grammar of Synodality’ on Display at Start of Synod GatheringCardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich said that ‘round tables also remind us that none of us is the star in this synod,’ stating that the event’s ‘protagonist is the Holy Spirit.’On the opening day of the Synod on Synodality, a leading official of the process urged participants to read “the signs of the times” in order to “discover a grammar of synodality for our time.” “Just like the grammar of our languages changes as they develop, so does the grammar of synodality: It changes with time,” said Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich,...

(Cardinal) Hollerich Wants To Speed Up Homosex "Blessings"Luxembourg Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich, member of Francis’ nine-person advisory gang, wants a rite to "bless" practicing homosexuals, he told LaStampa.it (April 1).He believes the Church can "change" her "attitude" [= the Catholic Faith] and he wants "to speed up" that process because "we must open the doors to everyone" - a term that includes child molesters or national socialists.Hollerich said that "many" priests "suffer" from celibacy, insinuating that sex makes everybody happy. He would therefore welcome to abolish celibacy.

[Catholic/Orthodox Caucus] A Dangerous Relator in MischiefIn March 28, 2023, the National Catholic Reporter published an article entitled “Top synod cardinal says church could one day revisit ban on ordaining women”. In it they inform us of a “newly named top adviser to Pope Francis and leading organizer of the Vatican's ongoing synod process [who] believes that it might one day be possible to revisit Pope John Paul II's prohibition on the ordination of women to the priesthood.” This Cardinal is no less than Luxembourg’s Jean-Claude Cardinal Hollerich who announced in the interview “that the church's language of describing LGBT...

[Catholic / Orthodox Caucus] Cdl. Hollerich falsely claims Pope can reverse teaching against women priests ‘with time’The top Vatican cardinal denied that Catholic teaching on the impossibility of female ordination is infallible.VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) — Close papal advisor Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich, S.J., has once again suggested that the Catholic Church could open its doors to a female priesthood. He also argued that when “Church teaching was made” there was no concept of homosexuality, in an attack on Catholic teaching against about sodomy. Hollerich: ‘With time’ female ordination could occurThe lengthy interview Hollerich granted to the Croatian news outlet Glas Koncila...

[Catholic Caucus] Cardinal: St Paul Knew "Nothing" About HomosexualityWhen the Church's teaching on homosexuality was “created” [by God] “the concept of homosexuality did not even exist,” Luxembourg's Cardinal Hollerich told the Croatian Glas-koncila.hr (March 27), making a fool out of himself.Croatia is still relatively Catholic. Homosexualists are trying to corrupt such relatively unpolluted areas.According to Hollerich, homosexuality is a "new word" [but an old concept]. He wants his audience to believe that people in St. Paul's time had "no idea" that homosexuality existed, despite the fact that St Paul strongly condemns this vice as do many ancient philosophers.Hollerich believes that...

‘We Need Time,’ Synod on Synodality Organizers Tell German-Language Media... Cardinal Grech added: “As a Church, we think about how we can become more synodical. Once we are more synodal, we can better address certain issues. And I’m convinced: A synodal Church gives better answers to existential questions.”In the same vein, Cardinal Hollerich told German Domradio on Feb. 12: “We need time. The Holy Spirit can work very quickly, but we mostly need time to understand, comprehend, and perceive the action of the Holy Spirit in our hearts and in the world.”... And if something comes from the Holy...

Cardinal Hollerich: Critics of the Synod ‘Won’t Be Able to Stop’ It The general relator of the Synod on Synodality made a number of bold statements this week including the assertion that Christian Europe is a “thing of the past.”One of Pope Francis’ closest aides and a leading figure of the Synod on Synodality has singled out critics of the process, calling them afraid of a “Church on the move” and saying they “know they won’t be able to stop” the synodal experiment.Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich of Luxembourg, the general relator of the 2021-2024 Synod on Synodality, also issued other bold...

“Certainly, You would like to see in Benedict as a deacon of conservatism. You, who have known him, you said, in effect, he had a free spirit.” "He was an intelligent man. And the hard-line conservatives, in general, lack intelligence. So, he was more conservative but he was open.

[Catholic Caucus] Cardinal Hollerich Projects Novus Ordo Group Problems onto CatholicsHomosexualist Jean-Claude Hollerich (Luxembourg's Cardinal), relator general of the Synod on Synods, stated that the disastrous Vatican II “saved the Church” [sic!].He told VidaNuevaDigital (17 October): "If we had not had this point of reform [sic!], which was Vatican II, the Church today would be a small sect, unknown to most people" - which is indeed the current state of the Novus Ordo Church.Hollerich lamented that the strongest opposition to the failed Vatican II came from "the traditionalists," who "are also, curiously, a postmodern phenomenon." Resistance to failure, however, is...

ROME — Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich, president of the European Bishops’ Conferences (COMECE), has called on the European Union (E.U.) to accept Ukraine’s application for membership. The Ukrainian government applied for E.U. membership on February 28 of this year, Cardinal Hollerich notes in his May 9 statement, a request that “deserves a positive and realistic response.” “Ukraine, but also Moldova, Georgia, and all the other European countries, notably in the region of the Western Balkans, which have made the same request in the past, and have undertaken significant reforms, need a credible accession perspective,” the cardinal declares. The cardinal’s statement, which...

[Catholic Caucus] Can Cardinal Hollerich help to reconcile the German ‘Synodal Way’ with the global synodal process?The German “Synodal Way” is moving forward boldly following a decisive meeting in Frankfurt at the start of February. But one important question remains unanswered: how does the initiative fit in with the two-year global synodal process launched by Pope Francis leading up to the 2023 Synod on Synodality?Bishop Georg Bätzing, chairman of the German bishops’ conference, went some way to answering that question at the end of the three-day meeting of the Synodal Assembly, the supreme decision-making body of the Synodal Way. “It...