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German Bishop Oster denounces pro-LGBT Catholic school guidelines as ‘Gnosticism’

Bishop Stefan Oster rebuked the German bishops’ new pro-LGBT school guidelines, arguing they break with Church teaching and promote a secular view of humanity that undermines the faith.

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Andreas Wailzer

• Nov 11, 2025

German Catholic bishops' new document on 'sexual diversity' in schools signals deep spiritual crisis

According to Catholic sociologist Gabriele Kuby, the school document is only the latest manifestation of the 2019–2023 German Synodal Path

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Steven Mosher

• Dec 6, 2025Dec 8, 2025

Two more German bishops reject pro-LGBT 'sex ed' school document from episcopal conference

The three bishops are known as vocal critics of the German Synodal Way, which seeks to change immutable Church doctrine on marriage, sexuality, and human anthropology.

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Andreas Wailzer

• Nov 18, 2025

Germany’s youngest bishop takes bold stand for marriage

Passau Bishop Stefan Oster has offered refreshingly original arguments against the progressive forces within the Church.

Opinion

Maike Hickson

• Apr 29, 2015Jun 18, 2021

German Synodal Way approves text calling homosexual acts 'not sinful' and ‘not intrinsically evil’

The eight orthodox bishops who voted against the document were Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki and Bishops Gregor Maria Hanke, Matthias Heinrich, Stefan Oster, Dominikus Schwaderlapp, Rolf Steinhäuser, Rudolf Vorderholzer, and Florian Wörner.

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Andreas Wailzer

• Sep 12, 2022Sep 14, 2022

‘Married’ lesbian approved as head of Catholic day care in Cardinal Marx's diocese

The decision was approved under the German Catholic Church's new Labor Law, which drastically liberalized the Church's disciplinary laws in the country.

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Maike Hickson and John-Henry Westen

• Jul 31, 2015Jun 18, 2021

German prelate explains why seven bishops asked Rome for ‘clarification’ on intercommunion

The Eucharist 'essentially express our whole understanding of the Faith and of the Church.'

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Maike Hickson

• Apr 12, 2018Jun 18, 2021

German chancellor’s support for radical pro-abortion judge sparks massive outrage

Chancellor Friedrich Merz drew widespread criticism for endorsing Frauke Brosius-Gersdorf, a far-left candidate to Germany’s top court who claimed that unborn babies do not have ‘human dignity.’

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Andreas Wailzer

• Jul 10, 2025Jul 16, 2025

A handful of young German Bishops resisting the national Church’s march to heresy

Bishop Oster warns that “sexual practice outside of marriage is either fornication or adultery."

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Maike Hickson

• May 19, 2015Jun 18, 2021

German bishop: Synodal Way is in 'open confrontation' with Church teaching

According to the Bishop of Passau, the fourth synodal assembly was 'much more about political processes, tactics, the search for alliances than about listening to each other.'

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Andreas Wailzer

• Sep 23, 2022Sep 23, 2022

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German Bishop Oster denounces pro-LGBT Catholic school guidelines as ‘Gnosticism’

German Catholic bishops' new document on 'sexual diversity' in schools signals deep spiritual crisis

Two more German bishops reject pro-LGBT 'sex ed' school document from episcopal conference

Germany’s youngest bishop takes bold stand for marriage

German Synodal Way approves text calling homosexual acts 'not sinful' and ‘not intrinsically evil’

‘Married’ lesbian approved as head of Catholic day care in Cardinal Marx's diocese

German prelate explains why seven bishops asked Rome for ‘clarification’ on intercommunion

German chancellor’s support for radical pro-abortion judge sparks massive outrage

A handful of young German Bishops resisting the national Church’s march to heresy

German bishop: Synodal Way is in 'open confrontation' with Church teaching