Posted on 09/10/2022 8:44:52 AM PDT by ebb tide
82% of bishops and 92% of the handpicked German Synod’s delegates voted on September 9 in favour a resolution against the “exclusion of women from the sacramental ministry” (182 in favour, 16 against, 7 abstentions).
Only 10 bishops voted against it (45 bishops in favour, 5 abstentions). Approval rates of around 90% are typical for totalitarian regimes. "Dangerous passages" (Aachen Bishop Dieser) of the document which could have jeopardised the final vote, were changed during the day
This trick was necessary to avoid another embarrassing rejection as happened the day before with a resolution on sexuality.
The bishops inserted a passage calling on Francis to change John Paul II's 1994 Ordinatio sacerdotalis which states that women cannot validly receive ordination - as if such things could be "changed."
The resolution suggests that “in the future, gender should no longer decide on the allocation of ministries” - which is a distortion of the facts: Christ decides.
“It is not the participation of women in all [sic!] the Church’s ministries that needs justification, but the exclusion of women from the sacramental ministry,” - hammers Germany's apostate Catholic Church.
Ping
Half of Germany’s Catholics are becoming Protestants and Satan is loving it.
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