Concilio Subito! Council Now!

"Concilio subito" instead of autocratic "discernment of spirits"

Fatal ecclesiastical teaching positions of the past need a continuous update in line with the times, comments Oliver Wintzek. Well-founded reforms would be all the more important and waiting must come to an end.

Professor Dr Oliver Wintzek is Professor of Dogmatics and Fundamental Theology at the Catholic University in Mainz. At the same time he works as a co-operator at the Jesuit Church in Mannheim within the Pastoral Care Unit of Pope John XXIII.

Subito claims are tricky. Out of spontaneous emotionality, they were massively visible and audible at the funeral mass for John Paul II. Instead of waiting to create distance, a "turbo canonization" took place. Now cover-up crime allegations cast an unholy shadow over the Pope's luminary from a far-off land. In view of this, more than questionable justifications from the Papal mouth have recently been issued. No, just because this was common practice in the past does not justify it!

I do not consider Francis to be a real reform pope, which is why my appreciation and admiration are limited. Spontaneous gestures of human closeness are one thing, well-founded reforms would be another. Fatal teaching positions of the past need a continuous update on the state of the art. A pastoral practice of mercy is more of a permanent sham as long as everything remains the same in terms of content. The Pope from the end of the world decides alone in the end. That may be (ecclesiastical) law - but is it right? How does Francis decide what is right? His Jesuit background is reminiscent of the "discernment of spirits". This individual empowerment to decide how to decide with regard to God is tricky if it is combined with papal autonomy, devoid of legal remedies and theological criticism.

The Frankfurt synod - the first since 1007 - reveals the true majority, which cannot be belittled by reference to other issues in other regions of the universal church. A negotiated consensus regarding God is the reform alternative to official autocracy. This alternative is nothing strange and nothing new for the universal church: a council! In 1417 the Council of Constance required that councils should be held "frequently". The wait must come to an end. Therefore: "Concilio subito"!

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The Professor has in the past been attacked for his views.

The Catholic publicist Bernhard Meuser has taken a critical look at the theologian and priest Oliver Wintzek, who is a Professor of Fundamental Theology and Dogmatics at the Catholic University of Applied Sciences in Mainz and who distances himself from the church’s traditional concept of vocation.

Official dissemination of nonsense

Meuser comments: “Heretics are no longer burned for good reason. But the fact that nobody is there to prevent them from officially spreading nonsense is also not correct. What Wintzek teaches should be known to the local bishop Peter Kohlgraf. As early as 2021, he was allowed to show on "feinschwarz" (and then of course also on Katholisch.de) that he considers the infallible teaching position to be a "reinvention of Catholicism" in the 19th century, which now "has no control mechanisms based on participation in a structural as in terms of content"; this Catholicism is "prisoner of its own system."

One wonders in which masochistic system, the Bishops Kohlgraf and Burger (W. is a Freiburg diocesan) are trapped, that they see how "theologians" train young people to work in the church against the church.”

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Cathcon: we are going to hear more and more demands for Vatican III especially from the Jesuit coteries.