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In the foreword to a new booklet criticizing Pope Francis’s ongoing Synod of Bishops on Synodality, American conservative and papal critic Cardinal Raymond Burke has slammed the process as deeply harmful and potentially schismatic.

Cardinal Raymond Burke is considered a leading voice among Catholic conservatives and papal critics.

American Cardinal Raymond Burke has slammed the process surrounding the synod, calling it deeply harmful and potentially schismatic.

(RNS) — Cardinal Raymond Burke is considered a leading voice among Catholic conservatives and papal critics.

Bishop Bertram Meier of Augsburg is one of several German prelates who have opposed the plans of the Synodal Path endorsed by the episcopal conference, and publicly protested the German bishops’ challenge to Church unity.

A leader of the influential Central Committee of German Catholics (ZdK) has chastised Cardinal Rainer Woelki of Cologne for ordering a priest not to bless same-sex unions.

The meeting was a continuation of dialogue initiated during the ad limina visit of German bishops in November 2022

More meetings between the Vatican and German bishops are expected in the future in which the theological and disciplinary topics would be discussed further.

Leaders of the German bishops’ conference met with leading Vatican officials on July 27, to discuss the German hierarchy’s plans to implement their “Synodal Path” despite Vatican disapproval.

Pope Francis paves the way for an even more radical successor.