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St. Peter Canisius spent his life working and praying on behalf of the Church in Germany as part of the Counter-Reformation; we can count on his prayers today, too.
The present-day state of the Catholic Church in Germany is often compared to the situation 500 years ago, when Martin Luther led a break from Rome over fundamental disputes over doctrine and dogma. Although the details differ — today’s would-be schismatics are calling not for “sola scriptura” and “consubstantiation,” but blessings for same-sex unions and women priests — the parallels are clear for many following the German “Synodal Way.”
The “New Beginning” initiative in Germany, which opposes the Synodal Way as a thinly-veiled attempt to use the sexual abuse crisis as a pretext for pushing forward heterodoxical changes, has said the Church risks making the same mistake Pope Leo X made when he dismissed Martin Luther’s theses as an irrelevant “monk’s bickering.”
“Exactly 500 years [after the Reformation], the Roman Catholic Church is once again about to play down a theological debate in a not-too-distant country, ignore it, and consider it a German problem,” said the initiative in a letter sent to the bishops in Germany and around the world earlier this year. “The next schism in Christendom is just around the corner. And it will come again from Germany.”
Pope Francis has also warned the Synodal Way is taking the Church in Germany in a dangerous direction, telling its proponents that their country already has “a very good Evangelical Church,” a reference to a federation of Protestant churches in Germany. “We don’t need two.”
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The present-day state of the Catholic Church in Germany is often compared to the situation 500 years ago, when Martin Luther led a break from Rome over fundamental disputes over doctrine and dogma. Although the details differ — today’s would-be schismatics are calling not for “sola scriptura” and “consubstantiation,” but blessings for same-sex unions and women priests — the parallels are clear for many following the German “Synodal Way.”
The “New Beginning” initiative in Germany, which opposes the Synodal Way as a thinly-veiled attempt to use the sexual abuse crisis as a pretext for pushing forward heterodoxical changes, has said the Church risks making the same mistake Pope Leo X made when he dismissed Martin Luther’s theses as an irrelevant “monk’s bickering.”
“Exactly 500 years [after the Reformation], the Roman Catholic Church is once again about to play down a theological debate in a not-too-distant country, ignore it, and consider it a German problem,” said the initiative in a letter sent to the bishops in Germany and around the world earlier this year. “The next schism in Christendom is just around the corner. And it will come again from Germany.”
Pope Francis has also warned the Synodal Way is taking the Church in Germany in a dangerous direction, telling its proponents that their country already has “a very good Evangelical Church,” a reference to a federation of Protestant churches in Germany. “We don’t need two.”
Continued below.
As Germany Slides Toward Schism, Here’s a Saint Who Can Help
St. Peter Canisius spent his life working and praying on behalf of the Church in Germany as part of the Counter-Reformation; we can count on his prayers today, too.
