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While changes in Catholic doctrine and faith practice are discussed theoretically on the Synodal Way, many of the demands are already being implemented practically on the ground in the dioceses today.
The Catholic Church in Germany is not only facing its last synodal assembly in March 2023, but also its biggest decision on direction in many decades. Reconciling the driving forces there with the clear admonitions and demands from Rome to stop German solo runs seems possible only through an immediate miracle.
If, on the other hand, the present papers are indeed adopted, they will bring Catholics in Germany into an open schism. And if they are not adopted, the wailing in front of running cameras will resume, but that’s something we might be able to survive.
Imminent, however, is actually the worst of all solutions: soft verbal appeasement and the simultaneous creation of hard facts on the ground. One could also call it a brazen attempt at deception. We are facing a diocesan patchwork of Roman and “other” (Bätzing) Catholic dioceses and parishes, which would put the Catholic Church on the path into total social insignificance.
For who still needs a Church that no longer wants to proclaim and voluntarily relinquishes the claim to truth to the much-cited “new findings of human sciences” and the sense of faith of the zeitgeist advocates? Particularly since saving-the-world ambitions and good-people vibes, garnished with the meaningless verbal cherry of “Christian values and charity,” can also be obtained in any gender-sensitive and climate-neutral non-governmental organization—and entirely without church tax, too. It is devastating to see how a two millennia-old religion that helped lay the foundations for the culture of half the globe, acquiesces to the demands of respective lobby groups, as if there were nothing left to counter with intellectually.
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The Catholic Church in Germany is not only facing its last synodal assembly in March 2023, but also its biggest decision on direction in many decades. Reconciling the driving forces there with the clear admonitions and demands from Rome to stop German solo runs seems possible only through an immediate miracle.
If, on the other hand, the present papers are indeed adopted, they will bring Catholics in Germany into an open schism. And if they are not adopted, the wailing in front of running cameras will resume, but that’s something we might be able to survive.
Imminent, however, is actually the worst of all solutions: soft verbal appeasement and the simultaneous creation of hard facts on the ground. One could also call it a brazen attempt at deception. We are facing a diocesan patchwork of Roman and “other” (Bätzing) Catholic dioceses and parishes, which would put the Catholic Church on the path into total social insignificance.
For who still needs a Church that no longer wants to proclaim and voluntarily relinquishes the claim to truth to the much-cited “new findings of human sciences” and the sense of faith of the zeitgeist advocates? Particularly since saving-the-world ambitions and good-people vibes, garnished with the meaningless verbal cherry of “Christian values and charity,” can also be obtained in any gender-sensitive and climate-neutral non-governmental organization—and entirely without church tax, too. It is devastating to see how a two millennia-old religion that helped lay the foundations for the culture of half the globe, acquiesces to the demands of respective lobby groups, as if there were nothing left to counter with intellectually.
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The Church in Germany is on the path into total insignificance
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