The German Synod saws at the pillar of the episcopal office, which "breaks the neck of the Church," the anti-Catholic Cardinal Walter Kasper (89) admitted on NeuerAnfang.online (21 June).
Moreover, a synod cannot be institutionalised: "A synodal supreme council, as is now envisaged, has no basis whatsoever in the entire history of the Church."
For the neo-conservative Cardinal Gerhard Müller, the German Synod and "two-thirds" of the German bishops are moving "not only into schism" but directly into “contradicting the Catholic creed" (Kath.net, 22 June).
Being Catholic does not mean using the financial resources of the German dioceses to make up a church, but is determined by content, Müller writes.
He is struck by the Synod's "fixation" on a sexuality reduced to mere libido satisfaction, which betrays an image of man without God. The Synod's talk about "love" is for him on the level of narcissistic sentimentality.
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