For Roman Catholics not paying attention to this, here’s some background:
The danger of schism, if present anywhere, comes, instead, from Germany… The German bishops have proposed a “binding” national synod involving bishops and lay associations, which will examine questions such as married clergy and sexual morality.
Undermining the Church’s traditional teaching on homosexual acts (a sin, though not necessarily the worst type) appears to be a big part of it. This is being led by the Zentralkomitee der deutschen Katholiken, or ZdK, which translated would be the Central Committee of German Catholics. This article says:
In 2015, ZdK members also voted to demand the Church offer liturgical blessings for same-sex couples, and this is expected to be one of the first recommendations of the Synodal Forum on sexual morality. Such calls have been repeatedly made by prominent ZdK members, including the former German Minister for the Environment Barbara Hendricks, who has publicly criticized the Church’s teaching on homosexuality. Hendricks entered a same-sex partnership in 2017.
If the German bishops are able to redefine this part of Church doctrine, what next?
For Roman Catholics not paying attention to this, here’s some background:
Undermining the Church’s traditional teaching on homosexual acts (a sin, though not necessarily the worst type) appears to be a big part of it. This is being led by the Zentralkomitee der deutschen Katholiken, or ZdK, which translated would be the Central Committee of German Catholics. This article says:
If the German bishops are able to redefine this part of Church doctrine, what next?