Modernist wants to disempower bishops

"Bishops do not want to let go of power"

The canon lawyer, Thomas Schüller drew a critical conclusion after the conclusion of the Catholic reform process, the Synodal Path. "The bishops have moved on many issues but they don't want to relinquish their power."

"I don't want to abolish bishops and priests," Schüller clarified. They belonged to the Catholic identity. "But I want to disempower them so they can become spiritually powerful again." They clung to their formal power, but spiritually you couldn't survive like that.

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Disappointed in Synodal Council debate

"Very disappointed" said the canon lawyer with regard to the debate about the establishment of a permanent Synodal Council. In the future, clergy and lay people will discuss fundamental church issues together. However, the Vatican had denied the Church in Germany the authority to create such a body.

At the last plenary assembly of the synodal path at the weekend in Frankfurt, a synodal committee was set up to deal with the project further.

Everything is legally non-binding

That was "a shame," said Schüller, who was elected as a member of the preparatory committee. He would have preferred a vote on the Synodal Council in Frankfurt. However, this was not possible because the bishops probably did not have a two-thirds majority.

Schüller conceded: "Legally, everything that we could and can decide is a nullum. It is non-binding. I said that at the beginning of the synodal path, I have nothing to take back from it." But realities also arise through non-binding advice and decisions. "That's why people in Rome are so alarmed. The Vatican wouldn't intervene so sharply if something didn't happen here that was also noticed around the world."

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