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COMMENTARY: The pastoral constitution called for engaging the world in ‘the light of the Gospel,’ but some initiatives in the Church today seek to subvert the faith to the spirit of modernity.
The approved drafts have fueled worries that the Church in Germany is steadily moving toward schism.
Some laypeople who spoke with the Register support its heterodox approach, but others warn their local Church is careening toward schism.
Bishop Voderholzer launched a website in September presenting alternative texts for the Synodal Way.
In a Sept. 17 lecture in Rome, the German cardinal said the German path deviated from Vatican II, especially in the area of “the sacramental understanding of the Church and the episcopate.”
As a practicing Catholic, Liminski in 2010 defended the Church’s views on pre-marital sex and homosexuality.
The new statistics showed that there were 104,610 baptisms in 2020, compared to 159,043 in 2019.
In a statement, the head of the German bishops’ conference said the Pope called on the Church in Germany to “help shape the path of synodality” for the upcoming Synod of Bishops for the universal Church.
COMMENTARY: Pope Francis and the German cardinal clearly intended to communicate something of importance with their public exchange of letters. But what?
André Wichmann, from Bochum, in western Germany said June 9 that he and two others had submitted the dubium out of a “great concern about unity.”
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