German Bishop Franz-Josef Overbeck said 'we do not have to evangelize the whole world' and suggested that people can be 'happy and content' without God during a sermon on the Solemnity of Mary, the Mother of God.
The Pope’s criticism has nothing to do with the Synodal Way’s attack on Catholic moral teaching, but rather with undermining the authority of the bishops via the 'Synodal Council' the German bishops are trying to set up.