PopeWatch: The Germans Again

Not to worry, our Pope, the man in St. Peter’s Chair will either call them back to God, or excommunicate them…won’t he?
I mean, he is commissioned by Christ to above all, defend the Catholic faith as handed down by the Apostles, right?

….or will PF bless this sign of anti-rigidity. Let the schism begin…agian.

Ezabelle, my guess would be the infamous “Kirchensteuer”, the German church tax, is being used to pay for the new schism.
If the Roman hierarchy were true to Christ, the entire German bishops’ conference would be suppressed and most of its members excommunicated. Alas, that will never happen so long as the Peronist in Chief wears the white cassock. I do wonder what his official reaction will be, as I suspect that privately he thinks this is all just dandy.

Lay involvement in the election of your local bishop is pretty unobjectionable to me. Yes, you would have to make sure it’s not swarmed by trolls who suddenly remember their parents baptised them sixty years ago, but qualification standards for voting are a thing the world over.

The rest of it is the progressive Protestant church-emptying apostasy hash that the pontiff has no real objection to, deep down. But the problem is the Hun heretics are just moving way too fast. He simply believes that the frog should be boiled slowly, not microwaved.

Same sex blessings?
– Let us know your plan on how to make Sodomy non Sinful. Really. Explain how.

Ordination of women?
– Isn’t it obvious that there aren’t many fathers and that most bishops act like a little school girls. Shouldn’t the direction be to return to fatherhood? Explain how we should call mothers… fathers.

Optional celibacy?
– First can we have priests that give sermons on periodic continence and importance of married couples honoring their fertility before God? I.e. Sermons on NFP.

Elections of Bishops?
Perhaps this would be an improvement to Cardinal McCarrick‘s of the world choosing bishops. But can we first have every bishop that was chosen by Cardinal McCarrick resign?

I think that the response from the laity will not be in support of these things, at least not to the extent that the “synodalitists” would prefer. It might sound crazy, but remember that even in recent years things like same-sex marriage generally get shot down whenever they are put to a vote (as opposed to being forced by a judge.) And a lot of people who have lukewarm support of same-sex marriage only do so on the grounds of “it’s not a religious ceremony so we shouldn’t use religious reasoning” meaning that they would be even less willing to support it in the Church. Ordination of women might have some more support, though it’s easy enough to see why that can go wrong by looking to the protestants. The only one that I think will have firm support is ending celibacy for priests (which would be dumb, but not against dogma.)

Of course when the public fails to endorse what the Germans hope to have endorsed, they will immediately swing to saying that the bishops should just decree all these things.

J.RONALD PARRISH
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Add to that a daily examination of conscience? Frequent reconciliation?

I doubt that many of clergymen in Germany believe in the real presence.

They want the Church of Nice.
The antithesis of their Vows of Chastity, Poverty and Obedience.