Diocese Of Essen Archives

German bishop attacks Church teaching on there being only two sexes

Pro-LGBT Auxiliary Bishop Ludger Schepers of Essen insisted that ‘something has to change’ in the Church regarding sexuality and that the ‘Catechism must say different things than it does now,’ in the latest heterodox remarks from the German hierarchy.

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Andreas Wailzer

• May 8, 2024May 9, 2024

German prelate commissions 13 female ‘deacons in the spirit’ with support of bishops’ conference head

Bishop Ludger Schepers, the pro-LGBT auxiliary bishop of Essen, ‘commissioned’ 13 women who completed a training program with the ‘Women’s Diaconate Network,’ a heterodox group that promotes women’s ‘ordination.’

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Michael Haynes, Snr. Vatican Correspondent

• Apr 22, 2024Apr 24, 2024

Another German bishop allows lay men and women to baptize children in his diocese

Bishop Gebhard Fürst of Rottenburg-Stuttgart has commissioned 26 lay people, including 22 women, to perform baptisms, following similar moves by bishops in Essen and Osnabrück.

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Andreas Wailzer

• Nov 8, 2023Nov 8, 2023

German bishop poses with LGBT ‘progress’ flag at World Youth Day

Bishop Franz-Josef Overbeck is known for his heterodoxy.

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Andreas Wailzer

• Aug 4, 2023Aug 4, 2023

German laywomen carry monstrance at Corpus Christi procession in apparent violation of canon law

Wearing a humeral veil usually only worn by ordained ministers, the women processed with the Blessed Sacrament despite the presence of parish priests in a contradiction of the 2004 Vatican instruction Redemptionis Sacramentum.

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Andreas Wailzer

• Jun 20, 2023Jun 21, 2023

First German bishop attends same-sex ‘blessing’ despite Vatican ban

Bishop Ludger Schepers, auxiliary of the Diocese of Essen, has been a longtime proponent of LGBT ideology, previously writing a forward to a book for same-sex 'blessings.'

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Michael Haynes, Snr. Vatican Correspondent

• May 12, 2022