Pope Leo sharply criticised the Synodal Carnival in Germany

On the Synodal Path

This is how Pope Leo XIV criticized the German bishops

The election of Cardinal Robert Prevost as Pope Leo XIV came as a surprise to many millions of Catholics around the world. They had never heard the name before. The German bishops were different!

They knew who their human resources manager was in the Vatican. Prevost headed Pope Francis's Dicastery for the Bishops. And: Today's Pope Leo delivered a slap in the face to the German bishops in a letter in February 2024.

Prevost had sharply attacked the Synodal Council reform project, in which lay people want to have a say in matters of church doctrine, in a letter. His accusations:

► A Synodal Council is not provided for in canon law.

► The corresponding resolution of the Bishops' Conference is invalid.

► The DBK is not permitted to approve such a statute.

► No mandate was issued by the Holy See.

Pope Leo XIV certainly still remembers his letter.

Prevost represents some rather conservative views among the bishops: In a 2012 speech, he spoke of the "homosexual lifestyle" and "alternative families consisting of same-sex partners and their adopted children" and criticized the Western media for "showing sympathy for beliefs and practices that contradict the Gospel."

And in 2017, Leo said of families: "The family consists of a father, a mother, and children." He also issued a harsh judgment on abortion: "It undermines the human rights of all."

The chairman of the German Bishops' Conference, Georg Bätzing (Limburg), called Leo's election an "outstanding choice." He was "certain that the new pope is a Pontiff, a bridge-builder in the truest sense of the word."

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The German Bishops are going to have to stop their tango dance with the world or they will suffer utter shipwreck.