Vatican Parish Instruction: Cardinal Marx Rants Against Vatican
He garnished his rant with well-known mantras, all of which applicable to himself: "It is a little strange when a document comes from Rome without anybody discussion with us about it - is this a coexistence of the universal and particular Church, as one would wish? Not really”.
Marx misses "togetherness" and "listening to one another" and "going together": “One cannot simply proclaim something while the other has to follow, but we must listen to one another, learn with one another, absorb the experiences of the local Church - something I miss in the document that was published these days."
Marx recalls the "great unanimity" of the German Bishops' Conference in producing the text "Being Church Together": "One does not feel that something of that has been registered".
According to Marx, the instruction sows mistrust and deepens rifts, leading to "divisions" and "tensions": "Thus, no fruit is produced". He feels the need of a new "togetherness" between Rome and the local churches.
In the Corona period, Marx, who is known for his prince-like behaviour, forbade Easter and enforced communion in the hand without "listening to one another", "learning together", "avoiding divisions".
