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NEWS ANALYSIS: How German Church leaders are spinning the Synod on Synodality’s first assembly and planning to influence its concluding assembly next year.
VATICAN CITY — In the aftermath of the recent Synod on Synodality assembly at the Vatican, leaders of the Catholic Church in Germany have been eager to frame the synod’s results as an endorsement of their ongoing push for radical changes to Church teaching and practice — and as a justification for similar efforts they plan to make in the coming months.
In fact, at least some German Catholics calling for radical change didn’t even wait until the synod’s concluding Mass had been celebrated to start advancing their narrative.
The morning after the synod had approved its 41-page summary document, Bishop Georg Bätzing, the president of the German Bishops’ Conference (DBK), and other German bishops who had participated in the Oct. 4-29 gathering held a press conference in Rome.
The DBK president contended that the Vatican synod echoed many of the issues that have been advanced by the controversial German Synodal Way, a non-canonical assembly of bishops and laypeople that has pushed for condoning same-sex sexual relations, the attempted ordination of women, and lay governance of the Church.
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VATICAN CITY — In the aftermath of the recent Synod on Synodality assembly at the Vatican, leaders of the Catholic Church in Germany have been eager to frame the synod’s results as an endorsement of their ongoing push for radical changes to Church teaching and practice — and as a justification for similar efforts they plan to make in the coming months.
In fact, at least some German Catholics calling for radical change didn’t even wait until the synod’s concluding Mass had been celebrated to start advancing their narrative.
The morning after the synod had approved its 41-page summary document, Bishop Georg Bätzing, the president of the German Bishops’ Conference (DBK), and other German bishops who had participated in the Oct. 4-29 gathering held a press conference in Rome.
The DBK president contended that the Vatican synod echoed many of the issues that have been advanced by the controversial German Synodal Way, a non-canonical assembly of bishops and laypeople that has pushed for condoning same-sex sexual relations, the attempted ordination of women, and lay governance of the Church.
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‘Pure Manipulation’: Germans Continue Push for Radical Change After Worldwide Synod
NEWS ANALYSIS: How German Church leaders are spinning the Synod on Synodality’s first assembly and planning to influence its concluding assembly next year.
