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| Schism fears arise as Catholic Church in Germany aims to put laity on ‘same level’ as bishops |
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Posted by: Stone - 01-19-2026, 09:16 AM - Forum: Vatican II and the Fruits of Modernism
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Schism fears arise as Catholic Church in Germany aims to put laity on ‘same level’ as bishops
'This Synodal Conference will have decision-making power and be able to introduce changes to doctrine by majority vote,' reported Italian journalist Nico Spuntoni.
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FRANKFURT AM MAIN, GERMANY - FEBRUARY 05: Catholic bishop Georg Baetzing, speaks to the media after the 3. congress of the
"Synadoler Weg" Catholic reform movement on February 05, 2022 in Frankfurt, Germany.
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Jan 17, 2026
(LifeSiteNews [slightly adapted, not all hyperlinks included from original]) — As Pope Leo XIV meets with his Apostolic Nuncio for Germany, Monsignor Nikola Eterovic, on Saturday, the very real possibility of schism with the Catholic Church in Germany looms.
“It’s alleged the German Church wants to put the German laity on the same level as the bishops and also let them control the cash,” according to a report in the Italian language publication Il Giornale by Nico Spuntoni.
Spuntoni explains:
Quote:This is a project, already approved by the powerful Central Committee of German Catholics, that will create a permanent body in which laypeople will be on an equal footing with bishops. This Synodal Conference will have decision-making power and be able to introduce changes to doctrine by majority vote, forcing those who disagree to provide a public justification. In addition, the Conference will take control of the financial resources of the extremely wealthy German Church.
The Holy See’s concern over what many interpret as a trajectory toward schism extends far beyond Germany’s national boundaries.
Spuntoni suggests that the German Church would like to trigger a contagion that would spread through the rest of the Roman Catholic Church.
An unpublished document shows that in 2021, Benedict XVI contacted Cardinal Reinhard Marx, then-head of the German Bishops’ Conference and chief proponent of Germany’s “Synodal Way,” to express his “great concern” about the synodal process in Germany.
“Vatican sources confirm that in recent years Ratzinger was very skeptical about the direction taken by the German Church and was convinced that ‘this path will do harm and end badly if it is not stopped,’” wrote Spuntoni. “Marx ignored the appeal of the Pope Emeritus.”
“Now it is Leo XIV’s turn,” said the Il Giornale author, who noted that the Pope may turn to Cardinal Mario Grech’s report to the consistory, which stated that “it is always up to the bishop of Rome to suspend the synodal process if necessary.”
“Prevost shares Benedict XVI’s concerns,” said Spuntoni, who warned that if Pope Leo “lacks the strength to say no to the Synodal Conference project, there is a risk that the German avalanche could become a schism for the universal Church.”
The Synodal Way is a heterodox reform project launched by the German Bishops’ Conference and the Central Committee of German Catholics in December 2019.
By 2023, an overwhelming majority of the members of the Synodal Way, including more than two-thirds of the German bishops, voted in favor of heretical documents calling for women deacons, “blessings” of same-sex unions and even “transgender” priests in a text replete with gender ideology.
Cardinal Gerhard Müller, former head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF), blasted the heretical German Synodal Way at the time, saying it was worse than schism and calling it a variant of “materialistic and nihilistic woke culture” that has abandoned “the very essence of Christianity.”
Müller explained in an interview with the conservative German magazine Tichys Einblicke that while the schismatic Orthodox Church kept its focus on Christ, the Synodal Way in Germany has abandoned “the very essence of Christianity … in favor of its transformation into a variant of the materialistic and nihilistic woke culture of man’s self-redemption and self-creation.”
“Instead of the word of God in Holy Scripture and Church Tradition, one refers to the ‘authorities’ like Michel Foucault, Judith Butler, Helmut Kentler, or Yuval Harari,” Müller continued.
The German cardinal furthermore said that “woke culture,” which is also represented in the Synodal Way, leads humanity further down the path of self-destruction. At the root of this problem Müller identifies a “wrong anthropology which makes the marriage of man and woman an arbitrary variant of self-centered libido.”
Proponents of the German “Synodal Way” are “propagandists of a secularized church that has distanced itself from Christ, who want to cast out the violations of the natural and revealed anthropology and sexual morality by destroying it,” wrote Cardinal Müller in a LifeSiteNews essay in 2022.
“The main goal of the whole campaign is the preservation of Christianity as the civil religion of the secular state and of the largely religiously agnostic and indifferent society as a whole,” said Müller. “Therefore, one offers itself to the ‘modern world’ – whatever that is supposed to be – as a socio-psychologically useful religious and social service organization.”
“One pretends that the Church was not founded by God to be the sacrament of salvation for the world in Christ (Lumen gentium 1; 48; Gaudium et spes 45), that it therefore in no way has to legitimize itself before atheists in regard to its expediency for the welfare state or an earthly paradise of socialist (Red Chinese model of society) and capitalist character (Great Reset by 2030),” declared the faithful German cardinal.
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| Oratory Conference: Fr. Denis Fahey Summarizes Papal Encyclicals January 15, 2026 |
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Posted by: Deus Vult - 01-17-2026, 10:07 PM - Forum: Conferences
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Fr. Denis Fahey Summarizes Papal Encyclicals
January 15, 2026 (NH)
Declaration of the Rights of Man - 1789
Approved by the National Assembly of France, August 26, 1789
The representatives of the French people, organized as a National Assembly, believing that the ignorance, neglect, or contempt of the rights of man are the sole cause of public calamities and of the corruption of governments, have determined to set forth in a solemn declaration the natural, unalienable, and sacred rights of man, in order that this declaration, being constantly before all the members of the Social body, shall remind them continually of their rights and duties; in order that the acts of the legislative power, as well as those of the executive power, may be compared at any moment with the objects and purposes of all political institutions and may thus be more respected, and, lastly, in order that the grievances of the citizens, based hereafter upon simple and incontestable principles, shall tend to the maintenance of the constitution and redound to the happiness of all. Therefore the National Assembly recognizes and proclaims, in the presence and under the auspices of the Supreme Being, the following rights of man and of the citizen:
Articles:
1. Men are born and remain free and equal in rights. Social distinctions may be founded only upon the general good.
2. The aim of all political association is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man. These rights are liberty, property, security, and resistance to oppression.
3. The principle of all sovereignty resides essentially in the nation. No body nor individual may exercise any authority which does not proceed directly from the nation.
4. Liberty consists in the freedom to do everything which injures no one else; hence the exercise of the natural rights of each man has no limits except those which assure to the other members of the society the enjoyment of the same rights. These limits can only be determined by law.
5. Law can only prohibit such actions as are hurtful to society. Nothing may be prevented which is not forbidden by law, and no one may be forced to do anything not provided for by law.
6. Law is the expression of the general will. Every citizen has a right to participate personally, or through his representative, in its foundation. It must be the same for all, whether it protects or punishes. All citizens, being equal in the eyes of the law, are equally eligible to all dignities and to all public positions and occupations, according to their abilities, and without distinction except that of their virtues and talents.
7. No person shall be accused, arrested, or imprisoned except in the cases and according to the forms prescribed by law. Any one soliciting, transmitting, executing, or causing to be executed, any arbitrary order, shall be punished. But any citizen summoned or arrested in virtue of the law shall submit without delay, as resistance constitutes an offense.
8. The law shall provide for such punishments only as are strictly and obviously necessary, and no one shall suffer punishment except it be legally inflicted in virtue of a law passed and promulgated before the commission of the offense.
9. As all persons are held innocent until they shall have been declared guilty, if arrest shall be deemed indispensable, all harshness not essential to the securing of the prisoner's person shall be severely repressed by law.
10. No one shall be disquieted on account of his opinions, including his religious views, provided their manifestation does not disturb the public order established by law.
11. The free communication of ideas and opinions is one of the most precious of the rights of man. Every citizen may, accordingly, speak, write, and print with freedom, but shall be responsible for such abuses of this freedom as shall be defined by law.
12. The security of the rights of man and of the citizen requires public military forces. These forces are, therefore, established for the good of all and not for the personal advantage of those to whom they shall be intrusted.
13. A common contribution is essential for the maintenance of the public forces and for the cost of administration. This should be equitably distributed among all the citizens in proportion to their means.
14. All the citizens have a right to decide, either personally or by their representatives, as to the necessity of the public contribution; to grant this freely; to know to what uses it is put; and to fix the proportion, the mode of assessment and of collection and the duration of the taxes.
15. Society has the right to require of every public agent an account of his administration.
16. A society in which the observance of the law is not assured, nor the separation of powers defined, has no constitution at all.
17. Since property is an inviolable and sacred right, no one shall be deprived thereof except where public necessity, legally determined, shall clearly demand it, and then only on condition that the owner shall have been previously and equitably indemnified. |
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