The German Church is funded by the state. Many priests and bishops no longer obey Church teaching and they are untethered from the people. They clearly do the bidding of their funders.
This will likely get very messy. I would say the Vatican must act but I don’t know how much the Vatican is actually against this and I don’t know if they have the spine for the fight, even if they did want it.
Here, Bishop George Bätzing, the head of the Catholic Bishop’s Conference in Germany, says that the Catholic church there is already blessing gay unions but are now moving to formalize it. To be clear, they are not just blessing the people involved, they are blessing the union.
It’s in German but you can read the sub-titles.
Bishop Bätzing speaking on the decision made by the #SynodalWay to implement blessings for homosexual and divorced+remarried couples; stating that that practice already exists in 🇩🇪 anyways and should be made public independently of what the #Vatican or the @Pontifex might think. pic.twitter.com/7th6bQw7Bw
— Maria 1.0 (@Maria_1Punkt0) March 15, 2023
Who knows where this goes? All I know is that it can’t be ignored any longer.
Thanks to Commenter Trubadour.
