Now a third German Bishop defends human dignity. Why are the Synodalist Shepherds so very silent?

 From: Communication Department

"Human dignity is inviolable!" (Article 1 of the Basic Law)

This first article of the Basic Law may not be restricted in either of its two statements. The dignity conferred by the Basic Law is whole and indivisible.

And no human being may be excluded from any part of this dignity.

I therefore appeal to the free conscience of all members of the German Bundestag: please ensure, through your responsible voting behaviour, that the consensus on this unrestricted constitutional guarantee is maintained in all organs of the state!

Please ensure that positions that advocate a tiered concept of human dignity and do not want to recognise this dignity in human life before birth do not become effective in the highest court of our state!

This would introduce a paradigm shift that would lead to serious impairments of the common good, because as a result of such a division and limitation of the concept of dignity, far-reaching consequential applications could no longer be averted.

The basic democratic consensus of our society in the awareness of inviolable values on which democracy rests would be weakened, and this would also threaten further threats to human existence in need of protection in Germany.

This is precisely what the mothers and fathers of the Basic Law wanted to prevent for the future of Germany with Article 1.

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This in the context of the appointment of a judge to Germany's Constitutional Court, Frauke Brosius-Gersdorf.

The other two Bishops who are standing up for human dignity in Germany.

Still nothing from the German Bishops' Conference- their latest press release is about financial savings.  If they cannot defend Catholic teaching on moral issues, the best saving that can be made would be to abolish them.