"Synodal Councils": German Bishops Ignore Francis
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Eterović said he had been mandated ex officio to clarify the Vatican's January letter. A bishop "according to a correct interpretation of the content of this letter," may not establish "synodal councils" even at diocesan or parish level.
Presiding Bishop Bätzing said the same day that he had responded to the January letter explaining the goal of such councils and that they should be set up in the next three years.
Eterović's statement was directed at Magdeburg Bishop Feige, who had claimed in January that the ban on "synodal councils" would not apply to the diocesan and parish level.
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