‘Treason’: German Synodal Path furious after bishops block document on changing Church teaching

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No Synodality, German Bishop GO AHEAD With Rejected Homosex Document

gloria.tv | September 9, 2022

How the German Synod respects its own procedure: Presiding Berman Bishop Georg Bätzing of Limburg announced (September 9) that the *rejected* document normalizing homosexuality will be passed on anyway. Bätzing will bring the rejected document to the German bishops’ conference, to the bishops’ Ad limina meeting in Rome in November and to Francis’ worldwide Synod.

Further, he will implement the document in his Limburg Diocese and knows “several bishops” who will do similarly. One of them is Dresden-Meißen Bishop Heinrich Timmerevers. He belongs to the "very disappointed and sad" pro-homosex faction, "This text remains guiding for my actions as bishop.”

Background: 21 bishops successfully formed (September 8) a blocking minority (a third of bishops) against 33 bishops and 80% of the German Synod’s handpicked circa 200 delegates.

Only a half-dozen of the 21 bishops dared to publically acknowledge their anonymous “no” vote.

Eichstätt Bishop Gregor Hanke said he doesn’t vote according to his personal opinion but was supporting Church teaching.

Passau Bishop Stefan Oster said he can intellectually and spiritually justify the Church’s teaching and voted no. However, he felt pressured at the Synod where it is difficult to stand out.