The abbey seemed to admit that Fr. Joachim Wernersbach’s sermon was in accordance with Catholic teaching, adding that they made their critique 'regardless of valid Catholic doctrine.'
'I am truly disturbed at this ploy to turn against our Catholic faith, Holy Mother Church, and ultimately Christ Himself,' writes Father Tyler Johnson.
Professor Thomas Sternberg, who started the Synodal Way in 2019 with Cardinal Reinhard Marx, said that Cardinal Marc Ouellet, the prefect of the Congregation for Bishops, attempted 'to stop the whole thing' in the beginning.
The 'basic order of ecclesiastical service' states that employees’ private lives, 'in particular relationships and intimacy, are not subject to legal assessment.'
'Offer the Pope to renounce your episcopate. You are not suited for it,' a group of lay Catholics told pro-homosexual Bishop Peter Kohlgraf in a blistering letter.
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.'
Bishop Franz-Josef Bode, a heterodox, pro-LGBT vice president of the German Synodal Path, enabled accused sex predators and allowed them to have access to young people, according to a report commissioned by his diocese.