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German cardinal warns about country entering into ‘schism,’ becoming
‘German national church’

https://www.lifesitenews.com/blogs/german-cardinal-warns-about-country-entering-into-schism-becoming-german-national-church

September 4, 2019 (LifeSiteNews <http://lifesitenews.com/>) *– Cardinal
Rainer Woelki, the archbishop of Cologne, describes in a new interview
<https://kirchenzeitung-koeln.de/672> his recent visit to the United
States, his impressions, and his many conversations with Catholics during
his trip. *Speaking to the local diocesan newspaper, *Kirchenzeitung Köln*,
Woelki says that he feels “encouraged” by his visit in the U.S., but that
also many people showed their concern about the developments in Germany.

* “Everywhere I was confronted with concern about the current developments
in Germany,” he explains. *“In many encounters, *the concern was palpable**
that the 'synodal path' leads us onto a German separate path [“Sonderweg”],
that we, at worst, even put at risk the communion with the Universal Church
and become a German national church.*” “Nobody can want this,” Woelki adds,
“and so we should take seriously this warning.”

Many of those with whom he spoke in the U.S. “shook their heads” when
seeing “that *we in Germany seem to be ready willfully to change the
deposit of the Faith as it has been entrusted to us, *because we demand it
so loudly,” the German prelate stated.

Cardinal Woelki's interlocutors in the U.S. spoke “openly” about* the
“fear* *that
thereby, it could come to a schism within the Universal Church or even to a
schism within the Church in Germany.”*

While Cardinal Woelki is aware that there are challenges in the U.S., as
well, he noticed that “there, answers are being given based on the Faith of
the Universal Church, and not in form of a unilateral path or of a
theological overestimation of one's own abilities.”

Asked as to what these comments on the part of his U.S. interlocutors mean
for him, Cardinal Woelki stated that “I feel strengthened in my attitude. I
believe that the path as it is currently being taken in Germany bears great
dangers – especially in light of a schism within the Church in Germany.”
Here, the prelate referred back to *a recent letter written by Pope Francis
*which is addressed to the German Catholics and in which *the Pope calls
upon the Germans to preserve the Church's sense of the Faith.*

*Cardinal Woelki **described in his interview **how impressed he was by the
Catholics in the U.S. *and how there takes place a “new evangelization.” He
noticed during his trip to Boston, Washington, D.C., and New York City “how
natural it is there to live as a Christian and Catholic. To be Catholic is
nothing to be ashamed of. On the contrary, for many people whom I met it is
a true joy to live their Catholicicity with a natural normality.” Woelki
said.

Additionally, the German cardinal noticed how the flourishing parishes and
religious orders that he visited had a “deep sacramental life.”

*“Eucharistic adoration, the Sunday Mass and the Holy Masses during the
week are essentials in the parishes, the schools, and universities. Part of
it is also the access to the Sacrament of Penance,”* Woelki explained. The
“sacramental is placed at the center of the pastoral care.” Such a
spiritual life centered upon Christ Himself, Woelki later added, “leads to
an attitude which encourages us also to stand against the mainstream.”

Cardinal Woelki, who* visited at different places the Sisters of the Poor,
the Sisters of Life, and the Franciscans of the Renewal*, noticed that
these religious communities are “young, dynamic communities” with *a “life
connected with the Eucharist.”*

“I return home encouraged and I have concretely felt what it means to
belong to the Catholic Universal Church,” Woelki concludes. “To have this
connection surpassing all national borders is very precious, especially for
us Germans. We should hold on to it.”

*Cardinal Woelki is one of the few German bishops who have publicly
expressed their resistance to the plans
<https://www.lifesitenews.com/blogs/german-bishops-to-revisit-catholic-sexual-teaching>
of the German Bishops’ Conference of a “synodal path” questioning the
Church's teaching on celibacy, sexuality, and the role of women in the
Church's ministries*. In March of 2019, he stated
<https://www.lifesitenews.com/blogs/german-cardinal-preachers-have-failed-when-laity-demand-overthrow-of-churchs-sexual-teachings>
that German preachers have “failed” when laity now calls for a change of
the Church's teaching on sexuality. He then challenged his fellow
Catholics, saying “To put it in a pointed way, the alternative before us
is: either the de-secularization of the Church or the de-Christianization
of the world, at least in that part of the world where we Germans live.”

Moreover, Bishop Rudolf Voderholzer, of Regensburg, has also made public
his opposition to the German reform plans which well might include an
impending Church blessing for homosexual couples
<https://www.lifesitenews.com/blogs/two-german-bishops-endorse-book-calling-for-church-blessing-for-homosexual-couples>,
a new form
<https://www.lifesitenews.com/blogs/german-bishops-website-floats-idea-of-women-giving-homilies-at-mass>
of a female diaconate
<https://www.katholisch.de/artikel/22614-keine-frauenordination-die-kirche-konstruiert-sich-ihre-argumente>,
as well as a widening of intercommunion
<https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/germanys-bishops-approve-communion-for-protestant-spouses>.
Voderholzer said
<https://www.lifesitenews.com/blogs/german-bishop-synodal-path-revisiting-celibacy-sexual-morality-is-path-of-destruction>
in May of 2019 that* this “synodal path” in Germany might very well turn
out to be a “path of destruction.” *

“*A synodal process,” *he then explained, *“which aims at inventing **a new
Church is a path of destruction,*" said Bishop Voderholzer while speaking
at the Austrian monastery Heiligenkreuz on May 11. *“It splits Christians
apart, it cuts the Church into pieces and finally also damages our society
and is a burden also for the Protestant communities.”*

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