Over 80% of German bishops present approve Synodal Way text calling for women’s ordination
The heterodox text calls for a reassessment of St. John Paul II’s magisterial document 'Ordinatio sacerdotalis.'
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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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‘Treason’: German Synodal Path furious after bishops block document on changing Church teaching
Cardinal Reinhard Marx, the former head of the German bishops and a member of the Pope's Council of Cardinals, said he was 'very disappointed' by this voting result.
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German bishop: Homosexuality is ‘willed by God,’ contraception ‘strengthens the protection of life’
German Bishop Helmut Dieser's comments may foreshadow the continued direction of the Synodal Way.
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Bishop calls for inclusion of traditionalists, pro-life issues in Irish ‘Synodal Pathway’
'If the Church in Ireland is worried about groups on the margins of Irish society, then we will have to dialogue in a more serious way with what might be termed 'traditional Catholics'.'
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En una carta abierta, Mons. Athanasius Schneider exhorta al Papa Francisco a revocar las ‘desacertadas’ restricciones de la Misa Latina
'A medida que avanzamos en el camino sinodal que conduce al Sínodo 2023 sobre la Sinodalidad, vemos que se ha abierto una herida en el Cuerpo Místico de Cristo, la Iglesia.'
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German Catholics rebuke senior bishop for employing pro-abortion activist in key church role
'Bishop Bätzing, we ask you and your fellow bishops...to terminate your cooperation with Dr. Stetter-Karp permanently if she is not prepared to publicly recant her position, and to return to the teachings of the Church on the protection of unborn children,' the open letter reads.
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The ‘Synodal Way’ wants to reverse Catholic teaching on homosexuality. Here’s why that’s impossible
The Church's teaching is unchangeable, and same-sex behavior can't be reconciled with human nature, created by God as a communion of male and female.
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‘Doomed from the start’: Cdl. Müller blasts German ‘Synodal Way’ as ‘anti-Catholic’
'The Church is founded by Christ, cannot be reformed, is unsurpassable; only we can go the way and must go the way of repentance and renewal,' stated the cardinal.
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German ‘Synodal Way’ leaders express ‘irritation’ over Vatican criticism
‘In our understanding, a synodal church is different,’ said the presidents of the Synodal Way
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