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Thomas Sternberg, former president of the Central Committee of German Catholics (ZdK), who launched the Synodal Path alongside Cardinal Reinhard Marx, then president of the German Bishops' Conference (DBK), granted an interview on Friday, December 2 to the diocesan radio of Cologne on the synodal process launched since 2019 in Germany.

The Year of Our Lord 2023 will likely witness Catholic dramas we cannot predict now; that is the way of Providence. What we can know with certainty about next year is that the German crisis in the world Church will come to a head, because what’s happening in Germany will collide with the first session of the Synod on

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Vatican warns that Synodal Path talks raise risk of schism

Top Vatican officials expressed concern that, with the Synodal Path, the German bishops were giving up their role as shepherds and allowing participants to adopt positions contrary to the faith of the universal church, particularly regarding sexuality and women's ordination.

One of the primary instigators of the German Synodal Path has revealed that the effort was designed to put “pressure” on the Catholic Church, to bring about changes in moral teaching, and it has advanced “much more successfully than I thought.

Thomas Sternberg speaking at a press conference for the German "Synodal Way" on Sept. 30, 2021, in Frankfurt. / Synodaler Weg/Maximilian von LachnerCNA Newsroom, Dec 2, 2022 / 07:10 am (CNA).The German Synodal Way was designed from the outset to avoid legal sanctions while simultaneously creating "pressure" on the Church to change Catholic teaching, one of the founders of the process told German media Friday.Thomas Sternberg, former president of the Central Committee of Germa...

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">The National Catholic Reporter's <a href="https://www.ncronline.org/taxonomy/term/169336">coverage</a> of the recent U.S. bishops' meeting understandably focused on the election of new leadership and how these new episcopal leaders represent a continuation of the "culture war" strategies the conference has pursued for a number of years. <o:p></o:p></p>

ROME (AP) — Top Vatican cardinals tried to put the brakes on the German Catholic Church’s controversial reform process Friday, fearing proposals concerning gays, women and sexual morals will split the church and insisting they would be better debated later.

<p>Top Vatican officials expressed concern that, with the Synodal Path, the German bishops were giving up their role as shepherds and allowing participants to adopt positions in contrast to the faith of the universal church, particularly regarding sexuality and women's ordination.</p>