Pope Francis and the Germans

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Can anyone here please explain how what the German bishops are doing is beneficial in any way shape or form to the Church? Would they have been allowed to proceed with this under previous papacies? No offense to the current Pope, but this movement needs to be forcefully halted, like immediately!!! The confusion that these bishops are fostering is incomprehensible. Enough already!
 
I second that!

It seems that the Vatican governs the Church by giving full autonomy to its bishops, per the country they are in, to operate as they see fit. The boundaries they are held to aren’t the doctrines and truths of our Church, but instead they are shaped by whomever is sitting in the chair and those who make up the leadership.

One has but to look at our own USCCB, and they can see how the German bishops are free to govern and implement whatever they feel is best.
 
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The few orthodox bishops in Germany are speaking out but they are like voices in the wilderness among the synod participants it seems. There was one bishop who spoke out awhile ago and said that he would quit the synod if he didn’t like how it was operating, and I think the time will eventually come where they will have to walk out to make a statement that they don’t view this whole event as valid.

I am also skeptical that Pope Francis really will put a stop to whatever nonsense that this synod is sure to produce. Based on the voting procedures and rules, it’s pretty much a given that there will be some heterodox proposals made, seeing as how the lay group participating are essentially a bunch of secularists and they have just as much weight in the decision making as the bishops. Pope Francis doesn’t have a record of standing up to the Germans in the past and even overruled the CDF when it wanted to put a stop to the Germans’ intercommunion proposal from a couple of years ago. I question whether or not he’s going to pick a fight with his closest allies, regardless of what they want to do or what crazy proposals they come up with. He’s going to have a decision to make one way or the other, most likely. This synod doesn’t stop for over a year I think, so there is still time until their final product is created. But at the end of it, it may finally be time to find out what Pope Francis truly believes.
 
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It seems as if, like the Anglicans before her, the Church is going to set aside the immutability of principles.
 
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