Rome sets red lines for talks with German bishops

[Michie]

The Vatican has told German bishops that women priests and Church teaching on homosexual acts are not up for discussion in talks scheduled for next year.

Rome set out its red lines in an Oct. 23 note to Beate Gilles, the general secretary of the German bishops’ conference. A conference spokesman confirmed that the bishops had received the message — reportedly sent by Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin — during a meeting of their permanent council at the start of this week.


The three-page Vatican document, published Nov. 24 by the weekly Catholic newspaper Die Tagespost, addressed discussions between German bishops and curial officials that are expected to take place in January, April, and June 2024.

The talks — which will focus on resolutions issued by Germany’s contentious “synodal way” — are due to involve the Vatican’s dicasteries for the Doctrine of the Faith, the Promotion of Christian Unity, Bishops, Divine Worship, and Legislative Texts.

The note’s publication follows the releaseof a Nov. 10 letter in which Pope Francis said he shared concerns that elements in the German Church are taking steps “to steer it increasingly away from the universal Church’s common path.”

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Rome sets red lines for talks with German bishops

The Vatican said that women priests and Church teaching on homosexual acts were not up for discussion.

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[chevyontheriver]

The Vatican has told German bishops that women priests and Church teaching on homosexual acts are not up for discussion in talks scheduled for next year.

Rome set out its red lines in an Oct. 23 note to Beate Gilles, the general secretary of the German bishops’ conference. A conference spokesman confirmed that the bishops had received the message — reportedly sent by Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin — during a meeting of their permanent council at the start of this week.


The three-page Vatican document, published Nov. 24 by the weekly Catholic newspaper Die Tagespost, addressed discussions between German bishops and curial officials that are expected to take place in January, April, and June 2024.

The talks — which will focus on resolutions issued by Germany’s contentious “synodal way” — are due to involve the Vatican’s dicasteries for the Doctrine of the Faith, the Promotion of Christian Unity, Bishops, Divine Worship, and Legislative Texts.

The note’s publication follows the releaseof a Nov. 10 letter in which Pope Francis said he shared concerns that elements in the German Church are taking steps “to steer it increasingly away from the universal Church’s common path.”

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Rome sets red lines for talks with German bishops

The Vatican said that women priests and Church teaching on homosexual acts were not up for discussion.

www.pillarcatholic.com

What to make of this? The Vatican seems to have become sensible again after all the talk at the recently completed synod in Rome of going the same way the German Synodal Way has gone. May it be true.

 

[fide]

What to make of this? The Vatican seems to have become sensible again after all the talk at the recently completed synod in Rome of going the same way the German Synodal Way has gone. May it be true.

And maybe not merely "sensible again", but truly spiritual, the way of the Holy Spirit. And then again, the evil one knows well the fake turn to distract, only to pivot and charge in the other direction. Duplicity, distraction, ambiguity, confusion - and the time-proven tactic of the shameless lie - one step back, two steps forward he advances toward his ancient goal. What an interesting time to be alive! Less and less is there room for tepidity, more and more loudly the call for true zeal.