Schism in Berlin, Leo's Game, Time for the Pope to suspend the Synodal Process in Germany.
The German Nuncio meets the Pope. Unpublished letter from Ratzinger to Cardinal Marx: "Concerned" The most burning issue that Leo XIV inherited from Francis is in German. The Jubilee Year and the Conclave have not stopped what Cardinal Gerhard Müller has called the "Protestantization Process" of the Catholic Church in Germany. And if Rome has so far stalled in the face of the continued progress from beyond the Rhine, now the thorns are coming home to roost. In the next few hours, the Pope is expected to receive Monsignor Nikola Eterovic, Apostolic Nuncio to Berlin. It is inevitable that the conversation will be dominated by the imminent vote of the German Bishops' Conference on the Statute of the Synodal Conference. This is a project, already approved by the powerful Central Committee of German Catholics, which will create a permanent body in which the laity will be placed on an equal footing with bishops. This Synodal Conference will have decision-making power ...
