Schismatic Potential: A View from Germany

Catholic World Report ^ | 6/1/15 | Michael J. Miller

[marshmallow]

Attempts at manipulation, which reached an unprecedented level in the Church at the Extraordinary Assembly of the Synod of Bishops in 2014, continue unabated

The following piece, written by Professor Manfred Spieker, originally appeared on the Kath.net site on May 28th, and has been translated from the German for CWR. Professor Spieker is Professor Emeritus for Christian Social Sciences at the Institute for Catholic Theology of the University of Osnabrück:

Osnabrück (kath.net May 28, 2015). Archbishops Marx and Pontier of Munich and Marseilles, and Bishop Büchel of Sankt Gallen (Austria), have the right to invite prelates to a conference on how the Catholic Church deals with remarried divorcés and homosexually oriented persons. They also have the right to select the topics and the speakers. The entire event on Pentecost Monday at the Pontifical Gregorian University is nevertheless likely to deepen the divisions in the Church that have been evident since the Extraordinary Assembly of the Synod of Bishops in October 2014, because Marx, Pontier and Büchel sent out invitations, not as the shepherds of their dioceses, but as the presidents of their bishops’ conferences, and their fellow-prelates who do not share their views about the topics being discussed were not even informed about the conference, much less allowed to participate in it. That borders on an abuse of their office as moderator of their respective bishops’ conferences, for the president of a bishops’ conference is no more than a moderator.

The three bishops have thereby done a disservice to Pope Francis’ intention of having a free and open discussion about marriage and the family between the two synods in 2014 and 2015. A conference that resembles a secret meeting more than an academic event, in other words a public event, is unfair and contrary to the recommended.....

[NKP_Vet]

Pope Francis is the one that wanted the homosexual garbage and the “remarried” without an annulment receiving communion, included in the discussion. Francis could have put a stop to this nonsense last year.

[CharlesOConnell]

St. Francis Parish in Sacramento, across from Sutter’ s Fort, is the most beautiful, ornate Church structure in Sacramento, much more so than the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament. Unfortunately it plays much the same part as Most Holy Redeemer in San Francisco, the epicenter of local homosexualist incursion into the Catholic Church. My mother once innocently tried to attend a noontime “Mass” at St. Francis, without wearing any of the cultural insignia of the subculture that has for many decades been unnaturally interested in minors of the same sex. She was turned away by a uniformed security official, “this is a private event”. It wasn’t a Catholic event, no wedding or funeral is capable of being private, all are universal, Katholicos, Catholic.

[Buckeye McFrog]

I have remained a Catholic because I view Jesus’ charge to Peter in the Gospels that “you are the Rock upon which I will build my Church” as a personal charge and obligation.

Yet even I am reconsidering whether I want to be a member of the Church of Global Warming.

[Unam Sanctam]

It’s nice to know there are still a few sane Catholic voices left in Germany, and that they are not complete wall to wall heretics.

[Tao Yin]

Jesus’ charge to Peter in the Gospels that “you are the Rock upon which I will build my Church”

Why do catholics put quotes around an interpretation? Those are not the words of Jesus in any Bible translation that ever existed.

[TimF]

Acts 4

8 Then Peter, filled with the Holy Ghost, said unto them, Ye rulers of the people, and elders of Israel,

9 If we this day be examined of the good deed done to the impotent man, by what means he is made whole;

10 Be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, even by him doth this man stand here before you whole.

11 This is the stone which was set at nought of you builders, which is become the head of the corner.

12 Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.

Peter is not the Rock. Jesus Christ is.