Francis Wants an Ecumenical Recognition of a "Papacy Without Content"
It is called "The Bishop of Rome" and was signed by Francis. The text gives a historical and descriptive synthesis of developments and opinions on the papacy.
Koch hopes for a "new understanding" of the papacy that could be "recognised by all concerned" which includes countless schismatic and heretical groups.
The Pope should only be accepted by the many Christian sects as an "honorary head", including some kind of "primacy of proclamation and witness".
Under the subtitle "Principles for the exercise of primacy in the 21st century" the text suggests a change in the understanding of the papacy that would be at the service of "ecumenism" and "synodality". "Synodality" is another term for Conciliarism, the belief that councils hold greater authority than the Pope, which was condemned by the council of Basel-Ferrara-Florenz in the 15th century.
The document presents "the mutual interdependency of primacy and synodality at each level of the Church and the consequent need for a synodal exercise of primacy" as a "general agreement".
Synodality should mean giving more power to the “regional” levels of the Church, and “a continuing ‘decentralisation’ inspired by the model of the ancient patriarchal Churches [which were under the papacy].”
This includes reflection on the authority [= power] of national bishops' conferences.
The heart of the document is a call in number 178 for “a Catholic ‘re-reception’, ‘re-interpretation’, ‘official interpretation’, ‘updated commentary’ or even ‘rewording’ of the teachings of Vatican I.” On the contrary, the 'Jurisdictional Primacy' of Vatican I defined as a dogma the pope's supreme, full, immediate, and universal power over the entire Church.
The document adds: “These teachings were deeply conditioned by their historical context [= "wrong" today], and suggest that the Catholic Church should look for new expressions and vocabulary faithful to the original intention but integrated into a communio ecclesiology and adapted to the current cultural and ecumenical context.”
The next paragraph 179 attempts to limit the papal power to the city of Rome, “A greater accent on the exercise of the ministry of the Pope in his own particular Church, the diocese of Rome, would highlight the episcopal ministry he shares with his brother bishops, and renew the image of the papacy.”
Finally, the oneness/unity of the Church is attacked: “It seems particularly necessary to clarify the meaning of the expression ‘universal Church’.”
It is clear that these proposals cannot be implemented under Francis who stands for centralism, authoritarianism and tyranny.
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