The archbishop of Hamburg said the Church doesn’t meet homosexuals on equal footing and criticized the Catechism’s call for homosexuals to live chaste lives.
'Just because many today have difficulties with the faith of the Church or do not understand it, we cannot say that faith and doctrine are wrong or no longer relevant to a modern, contemporary, democratic society,' said Cardinal Woelki.
'We think that it's our duty to give a public sign to our bishops and to the Church that the actual synodal process is not representative of German Catholicism,' said one of the organizers.
The comments make it clear that the German 'synodal path' aims at discussing matters that have already been ruled in a definitive manner by the Magisterium.