[Catholic Caucus] Cardinals, bishops who back women’s ordination secretly meet near Rome ...

LifeSite News ^ | June 25, 2019 | Maike Hickson

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[Catholic Caucus] Cardinals, bishops who back women’s ordination secretly meet near Rome to prepare for Amazon synod

June 25, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) – A group of cardinals and bishops who are involved with the preparation of the Amazon synod and who back the abolishment of priestly celibacy and other progressivist positions contrary to perennial Catholic teaching are quietly meeting together near Rome in preparation for the upcoming synod, a well-placed source revealed to LifeSiteNews today.

Main participants at this meeting include cardinals Lorenzo Baldisseri, Claudio Hummes, Walter Kasper, Christoph Schönborn, Bishop Franz-Josef Overbeck, and Bishop Erwin Kräutler. Also present are Professor Wolf (Münster), and Josef Sayer, a friend and counselor of Cardinal Oscar Maradiaga. Mrs. Doris Wagner- Reisinger – the former nun whose accusations against a Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith official was recently rejected by a Vatican court – is present, as well. 

The Italian Vatican specialist, Marco Tosatti, just published his own report on this secret meeting, thus confirming our own independent source. Edward Pentin, Rome correspondent for National Catholic Register, also confirmed news of the meeting.

"A secretive meeting to discuss strategy for the upcoming #AmazonianSynod and involving mostly German-speaking prelates and intellectuals took place today at a monastery in Rome. Cdls Hummes, Baldisseri, Kasper, Schoenborn took part plus +Krautler, +Overbeck of Essen. More soon," he tweeted today. 

The participants of the preparatory meeting stand for a progressive agenda within the Church.

• Cardinal Baldisseri has been crucial in preparing the two family synods which led to Pope Francis' Apostolic Exhortation Amoris Laetitia that opened up the idea of giving some “remarried” couples access to the Sacraments. Baldisseri told Dr. Frédéric Martel about the synod's methods: “our line was essentially Kasper's.”
• Cardinal Claudio Hummes is in favor of married priests for the Amazon region, and that they should be indigenous. He stated in 2016: “There should be only indigenous clergy, priests and bishops – also without academic formation.”
• Cardinal Walter Kasper is the man behind the idea to give Holy Communion to some “remarried” divorcees without them having to change their way of life.
• Cardinal Schönborn once stated he could imagine female priests and bishops, and only a few days ago claimed that the cause of the sex abuse crisis is not the cultural revolution of the 1960s (as Pope Benedict XVI recently claimed), but the “Church's exaggerated fixation on the Sixth Commandment,” as well as “closed systems.”
• Professor Hubert Wolf recently claimed that “priestly celibacy is a risk factor with regard to [sexual] abuse.” In light of the abuse crisis, this theologian calls for “fundamental changes,” also with regard to “access to the priesthood.”
• Bishop Franz-Josef Overbeck has recently stated that after the Amazon Synod, “nothing will be the same” in the Church. He hopes for a questioning of the Church's teaching on sexuality and on access to the priesthood. Overbeck is the German bishops' expert for Latin America and responsible for the donations going to this region, via the German bishops' charitable organization Adveniat.
• Bishop Erwin Kräutler is in favor of married priests and women's ordination. He even goes so far as to claim that Pope Francis would be open to the possibility of ordaining women. 

LifeSiteNews has reached out to Cardinal Kasper and Cardinal Schönborn, asking for comment. We shall update this report as more information is coming in.

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[NorthMountain]

“There should be only indigenous clergy, priests and bishops – also without academic formation.”

without academic formation … but WITH communist indoctrination.

[married21]

They know who was there, when it happened and what was discussed. In what sense was this a secret meeting?

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They know who was there, when it happened and what was discussed.

Tell us what was discussed then. The article doesn't tell us.

[married21]

“strategy” re: goals of Amazon Synod.

[Hieronymus]

In the Catholic Clerical sense, and a use common enough elsewhere.

It was secret ahead of time—only those invited knew. And they haven’t issued press releases.

[ebb tide]

So what’s the not-so-secret strategy? And who announced it?

[married21]

Give it a rest. I was just saying that a lot was known, so it struck me as funny that it was “secret”. Like a lot of dc swamp leaks. Just let it go.

[ebb tide]

Do let us know when the strategy is made public. Until then, it’s a secret.