• Re: Pope Comes Down Hard on "Reformers"/"WokieLigion"

    From Mitchell Holman@21:1/5 to 25B.Z959@nada.net on Fri Jul 22 08:41:00 2022
    XPost: alt.politics.eu, alt.religion, alt.atheism

    "25B.Z959" <25B.Z959@nada.net> wrote in news:9IqdncyuLKYwj0f_nZ2dnUU7-THNnZ2d@earthlink.com:

    https://www.foxnews.com/world/pope-francis-warns-german-bishops-changin g-teachings-not-lawful-causes-churches-rot-die

    Pope Francis on Thursday took a swing at the Catholic
    Church's leadership in Germany, reminding faithful in
    the country that the German bishops do not have the
    authority to propagate new theology or alter church
    governance.



    Old men in funny hats struggling to be relevant.



    The statement was released by the Holy See on Thursday
    morning. In the message, the pope expressed concern for
    the laity and clergy of Germany if their leaders break
    with established church teaching. The statement claimed
    that Catholics would be negatively affected by the many
    proposed changes to the church pushed by Cardinal Reinhard
    Marx and other liberal German leaders in their "Synodal Path."

    The "Synodal Path" — sometimes called the "Synodal Way" —
    is a controversial church committee in Germany. The synod,
    organized by the German Bishops' Conference and the Central
    Committee of German Catholics, aims at discussing and
    addressing four loose topics: sexual ethics, the structure
    of church governance, women's role in the church and the
    vocation of the priesthood.

    . . .

    Like it or not, he's basically correct in the context
    of the HRCC. Nobody gets to just make it up as they
    go along, catering to the fads of the hour. The HRCC
    has spent almost two millenia deciding what the
    religion and its underpinnings mean, the "revealed truth",
    establishing the structure and pecking order. Deviate too
    much and you're not Catholic anymore - just some cheap new
    flavor of Protestant (and doomed to burn in hell according
    to doctrine).


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