Too Much Work: Bishop Believes Twelve Baptisms a Year Create "Difficult Situation"
The homosexualist Franz-Josef Overbeck, who makes his living as the Bishop of Essen, Germany, commissioned 17 female and 1 male pastoral assistants as "extraordinary ministers of baptism" on Saturday. …More
The homosexualist Franz-Josef Overbeck, who makes his living as the Bishop of Essen, Germany, commissioned 17 female and 1 male pastoral assistants as "extraordinary ministers of baptism" on Saturday.
Overbeck explained that he was reacting "to a pastorally difficult situation." Extraordinary (= ordinary) baptismal ministers exist worldwide only in Essen. CIC 230.3 says that lay people may baptise "when the need of the Church warrants it and ministers are lacking."
This need can be calculated. Essen Diocese's 2020 statistics list 2,827 baptisms and 502 priests and deacons. That is 5.6 baptisms per year for every minster. If only active clergy are counted (216 priests, 34 deacons), it is 11/12 baptisms per year (= one per month).
Picture: press pictures - Nicole Cronauge | Bistum Essen, #newsDpbihyuyds
Overbeck explained that he was reacting "to a pastorally difficult situation." Extraordinary (= ordinary) baptismal ministers exist worldwide only in Essen. CIC 230.3 says that lay people may baptise "when the need of the Church warrants it and ministers are lacking."
This need can be calculated. Essen Diocese's 2020 statistics list 2,827 baptisms and 502 priests and deacons. That is 5.6 baptisms per year for every minster. If only active clergy are counted (216 priests, 34 deacons), it is 11/12 baptisms per year (= one per month).
Picture: press pictures - Nicole Cronauge | Bistum Essen, #newsDpbihyuyds
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Extraordinary ministers of baptism? What's next? Extraordinary ministers of the liturgy? Extraordinary ministers of confession? Germany's doomed.
Jan Joseph
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Dit is een ongelovige Tweede Vaticaanse Concilie bisschop die de doop afschaft.
andreas adi
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laity become cleric, cleric become laity
Jeffrey Ade
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Sad but true! Then the priest's lose their vocation and everyone loses the Faith! Keep up the good fight Andreas!
John A Cassani
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I can’t imagine his priests, or deacons especially, being in favor of this. The new Rite of Baptism, which is so stripped down that it can be completed in about 10 minutes, depending on the number of candidates, is a favorite occasion for “affected” clergy to put on a (nauseating) performance that can last more than an hour. It can only get worse when you start having elderly feminists doing it.…More
I can’t imagine his priests, or deacons especially, being in favor of this. The new Rite of Baptism, which is so stripped down that it can be completed in about 10 minutes, depending on the number of candidates, is a favorite occasion for “affected” clergy to put on a (nauseating) performance that can last more than an hour. It can only get worse when you start having elderly feminists doing it. Of course, in Germany, they’re enrolling the baptized into paying the church tax, which is all that the bishop cares about, anyway.
Paco Rivera
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This is an assault on the Priesthood. No Priesthood, no sacrifice. No sacrifice, no religion.
Jeffrey Ade
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@Paco Rivera Without valid orders this is what we have! It appears completely lost but it is not! Viva Cristo Rey!