"German Bishop: Amazon Synod’s Proposals Have ‘Great Importance’ for Us"

[IanM]

National Catholic Register Article.

“Bishop Franz-Josef Bode told the Register that the recent synod’s push for married priests and women deacons ‘complies with our reflections’ for the German Church’s upcoming ‘Synodal Path.’”

German Bishop: Amazon Synod’s Proposals Have ‘Great Importance’ for Us| National Catholic Register

 

[HumbleIOughtToBe]

Local Internet Blogger Bob replaces Jesus at Saving the Church from Pope Francis. This is not said as a mocking of anyone on any side, rather as a word of encouragement in a time of fear.

 

[KMC]

From the article:

Cardinal Reinhard Marx, the president of the German bishops’ conference, said the process, which will consist of two years of meetings, would tackle “key issues” arising from the clerical sex-abuse crisis. In particular, the bishops are set to question the Catholic Church’s perennial teaching on priestly celibacy, human sexuality and the role of women in the Church.

These issues are not issues to be addressed from the scandal, if one were to simply read the John Jay Report. The report specifically stated “celibacy” was NOT a cause of the abuse. This is due to the fact that during the rise and fall of abuse cases from 1950-2002, the policy / practice of priestly celibacy was constant…it is not a cause!
Also, although homosexual attraction does not cause one to abuse children, the fact that the majority of abuse cases were against post-pubescent boys, shows that homosexual priests were the majority of abusers. If one were going to address human sexuality, then one would need to address the issue of homosexuality within the priesthood.
Lastly, the idea that adding women deacon somehow addresses abuse is lost on me. I am barraged on a regular basis of abuse cases within the public school system of women teachers abusing teenage boys.
It appears, if the article is accurate, that the abuse scandal is nothing more than an excuse to push ideas the German bishops wanted to push anyway.

 

[I_trust]

Everything is an excuse to push their agenda…

Abuse crisis
Priest shortage.
Women’s role in the church
Synod on the family
Amazon synod
synodality

When it stops being about Christ, it is all about what we want.
And everything is a tool to impose our will.

Similarly, Bishop Georg Bätzing of Limburg, who will co-chair the forum on “sexual morality,” also said the Amazon synod was an “encouragement” for the Synodal Path and that, like the upcoming process, it pointed toward “conversion and renewal.” If Jesus describes himself as the Way, the Truth and the Life, “then the truths of our faith cannot be rigid and immovable points of view,” he told the Register.

“Let your yes be yes and your no be no.”
Did Christ build his Church on a rock or shifting sand?
A rock sounds pretty rigid to me.

 

[DMorgan56]

Looks like we may see Reformation Part II from the Germans.