In March 2022, the Nordic Bishops’ Conference sent an open letter to the president of the German Bishops’ Conference, Bishop Georg Bätzing of Limburg. The Nordic bishops began by mentioning their historic debt of gratitude to the German Church: In Norway, for instance, the nineteenth-century . . . . Continue Reading »
The challenges of offering a decadent culture the healing medicine of the gospel have intensified since the Hartford Appeal. Continue Reading »
Reform will only happen if the Church remembers that she exists because of Christ and “in order to evangelize,” as Paul VI said. Continue Reading »
The Church has a “form” given it by Christ, and all true Catholic reform is in reference to that form. Continue Reading »
I hope and pray that the German bishops will listen to the Holy Father and their brother bishops and turn from their path of division. Continue Reading »
In an open letter to the German episcopate, 80 bishops voiced their strong concern over the direction of Germany’s “Synodal Path.” Continue Reading »
The result of the Synodal Way will not be evangelical renewal but a further abandonment of the gospel. Continue Reading »
The German Catholic Church is doing something similar to the Episcopal Church, serving as a chaplaincy for the Rainbow Reich—the empire of diversity, equity, and inclusion that flies the rainbow flag. Continue Reading »
Confusion within the German Church never stays within the German Church. Continue Reading »
A Protestant pastor argues that the Catholic Church does not need to become Protestant too. Continue Reading »
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