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A new body created to implement the resolutions of Germany’s “synodal way” has dropped a rule that decisions need the support of two-thirds of bishops as well as two-thirds of lay people.
Members of Germany’s “synodal committee” voted Nov. 11 in favor of statutes and rules of procedure establishing that resolutions can be passed with a simple two-thirds majority.
The committee is supposed to consist of the country’s 27 diocesan bishops, 27 delegates chosen by the lay Central Committee of German Catholics (ZdK), and 20 elected by synodal way participants. But four bishops have boycotted the body and a further four were absent from its Nov. 10-11 inaugural meeting at a four-star hotel in the Diocese of Essen, in Germany’s Ruhr valley.
The synodal way was an initiative that brought together the country’s bishops and select lay people at five “synodal assemblies” in 2020 to 2023 to discuss sweeping changes to Church teaching and practice following a devastating abuse crisis and amid a mass exodus of Catholics.
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Members of Germany’s “synodal committee” voted Nov. 11 in favor of statutes and rules of procedure establishing that resolutions can be passed with a simple two-thirds majority.
The committee is supposed to consist of the country’s 27 diocesan bishops, 27 delegates chosen by the lay Central Committee of German Catholics (ZdK), and 20 elected by synodal way participants. But four bishops have boycotted the body and a further four were absent from its Nov. 10-11 inaugural meeting at a four-star hotel in the Diocese of Essen, in Germany’s Ruhr valley.
The synodal way was an initiative that brought together the country’s bishops and select lay people at five “synodal assemblies” in 2020 to 2023 to discuss sweeping changes to Church teaching and practice following a devastating abuse crisis and amid a mass exodus of Catholics.
Continued below.
Germany’s synodal committee drops bishops’ vote rule
The synodal way’s successor body is paving the way for a permanent ‘synodal council’ in 2026.
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