German Bishops’ President Rebukes Pope Francis for Criticism of Synodal Way

National Catholic Register ^ | January 30, 2023 | AC Wimmer

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German Bishops’ President Rebukes Pope Francis for Criticism of Synodal Way

Bishop Bätzing was referring to comments Pope Francis made about the Synodal Way, among other subjects, in a wide-ranging interview last week with the Associated Press.

Bishop Georg Bätzing has criticized Pope Francis and dismissed the Pope’s recent words that the controversial German Synodal Way is unhelpful, damaging, and ideologically poisoned, saying the Germans had “fundamentally different views of synodality” than Rome. 

In an interview published Jan. 27, the president of Germany’s Bishops’ Conference said he considered the Pope’s “way of leading the Church by way of interviews” as “extremely questionable,” reported CNA Deutsch, CNA’s German-language news partner. Bishop Bätzing was referring to comments Pope Francis made about the Synodal Way, among other subjects, in a wide-ranging interview last week with the Associated Press. 

Bishop Bätzing of Limburg, noted that the German bishops had their ad limina visit with Pope Francis in November.

“Why didn’t the pope talk to us about this when we were with him in November?” Bishop Bätzing asked. “There would have been the opportunity, but he did not take the opportunity for discussion then.”

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The Dictator Pope, Bergoglio, would never tolerate such resistance from orthodox prelates, e.g. the dubia cardinals, Schneider, Mueller, etc.

Here he is just playing good cop / bad cop with his fellow homosexaulist, Batzing. They both have the same evil anti-catholic goals.

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Agreed. No one who’s paying attention could possibly think that Bergoglio actually disagrees with the Germans’ direction. Their agenda is his agenda. The notion that he’s trying in any manner whatsoever to rein them in is little more than kabuki theater.

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And yet, Cardinalsin Batshit has a point: what is it with Antipope Francis’ love affair by speaking solely through hostile media, rather than ya know, actually dealing with people as if they’re human beings?

[married21]

Indeed. Very weasel-ly. This indirect approach gives him deniability, he thinks, perhaps, if someone wants to pin him down. (I never told you … did I? Where did you hear that?). That, and the contradictions and half-truths really are tells that this guy is a tool of Satan, either wittingly or unwittingly.