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March 24, 2023
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Apostasy in Germany’s Catholic Church
by George Weigel
The Wall Street Journal

Institutional Catholicism in Germany has for the past three years been treading der Synodale Weg, the “Synodal Way”: a self-constituted, radical form of church legislative assembly that, while including the German bishops, was composed primarily of lay Catholics. That pathway reached its terminus on March 10, when the Synodal Way approved a series of resolutions that would fundamentally alter the structure of authority in the German church by circumscribing the bishops’ governing power. At the same time, the Synodal Way decided by overwhelming majorities—including a majority of bishops—to rewrite the Catholic Church’s sexual ethic and sacramental practice by authorizing the formal, liturgical blessing of same-sex unions and calling for women to be admitted to holy orders.

All of which brought to mind Pope Francis’ remark to Bishop George Bätzing, president of the German Bishops’ Conference, in June 2022: Germany already has a Protestant church, the pope observed, and “we don’t need two.”
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George joined Jenny Connelly and Archbishop Richard Smith of the Archdiocese of Edmonton Alberta for a discussion of different interpretations of Vatican II, “liturgy wars,” how to stay focused on Jesus amid political division, his concerns about the Synod on Synodality, and his latest book: To Sanctify the World: The Vital Legacy of Vatican II.

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“Given the obvious divisions among Christian Churches and denominations, and even within the Catholic Church, it’s worth pondering: In what does this oneness consist?” Stephen White writes for The Catholic Thing about what binds the Church together ([link removed]) .
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This week, Andrew Walker and Carl Trueman joined Albert Mohler, president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, for a discussion and interview on the effects of Critical Theory on contemporary American life.
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Mary Hasson, founder of the Person and Identity Project, was quoted in Our Sunday Visitor ([link removed]) about the new doctrinal note issued by the US Conference of Catholic Bishops “on the moral limits to technological manipulation of the human body”:

“Even within some Catholic circles there is a lot of confusion about whether medical interventions are morally licit,” she said. “The USCCB Doctrine Committee is clear: These interventions are not morally licit.”
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