German laity want to completely emasculate their Bishops
ZdK on synodal committee: no more two-thirds majority of bishops
In a future Synodal Committee, one will no longer accept a coupling of decisions to a two-thirds majority of the Bishops, emphasises the ZdK. This was a "painful learning experience" from the Synodal Path.
The Central Committee of German Catholics (ZdK) wants to change some rules of the Synodal Path in a future joint body with the German Bishops' Conference (DBK). Linking decisions to a two-thirds majority of the bishops will no longer be accepted, said ZdK President Irme Stetter-Karp in Munich on Friday. This was a "painful learning experience" from the Synodal Way.
The process of joint consultation and decision-making by bishops and laityat the federal level is to be continued in the Synodal Committee from November. ZdK General Secretary, Marc Frings admitted to journalists when asked that the Association of German Dioceses (VDD) had yet to make decisions on the financing of this project. Stetter-Karp added that a minority among the German bishops had expressed in recent months "that they have fundamental questions of legitimacy about the path they have taken". She assessed this as a "sign of weakness" in the Bishops' Conference. In this context, she recalled that the Synodal Way was not an initiative of the ZdK, but of the DBK.
"We expect the German Bishops' Conference to live up to its responsibility as a whole," stressed ZdK Vice-President Thomas Söding. "We adhere to the joint resolutions." He said they offered "a great opportunity to lead the Catholic Church out of the paralysing reform standstill". During the debate, pastoral theologian Matthias Sellmann from Bochum said that the ZdK's partner, the bishops, "is down". The Bishops were not exercising leadership. In this situation, he said, it does not help if the Central Committee also weakens; it must now take on a leadership role. - The plenary assembly of the ZdK will continue until Saturday. Other topics are the war in the Ukraine and coming to terms with sexual abuse in the Church.
Cathcon: You cannot even describe it as an ecclesiology because if accepted the Church in Germany would be no more.
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