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 Cardinal warns against ‘dramatic consequences’ of German bishops’ Synodal
Path
‘Our realities of life should be shaped much more by the Word of God than
our understanding of the Word of God by our realities of life,’ Cardinal
Rainer Woelki said.
Tue Sep 29, 2020 - 6:57 pm EST
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ROME, Italy, September 29, 2020 (LifeSiteNews
<https://www.lifesitenews.com/>) – *German Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki
warned of potentially “dramatic consequences” of the Synodal Path enacted
by the German bishops, arguing that “right and wrong are mixed up.”*

Issues being discussed during meetings of the Synodal Path include *female
ordination, approval of homosexuality, and other changes to **the Church’s
teaching on sexual morality.* The Synodal Path, officially launched last
year, is a collaboration of the German Bishops’ Conference and the Central
Committee of German Catholics, the umbrella organization for Catholic laity
in Germany. Faithful lay Catholics generally emphasize that they aren’t
represented by the Central Committee.

*Woelki, the archbishop of Cologne,** focused on** the word “realities of
life” (Lebenswirklichkeiten)*,* which is often used by proponents of
changing** Church doctrine* *to argue that **the traditional teaching **is
no longer* *relevant to Catholics.*

“Perhaps, then, the answer to many questions that arise from our realities
of life is that *our realities of life should be shaped much more by the
Word of God than **our understanding of the Word of God by our realities of
life,*” Woelki said during a speech at the meeting of the Ratzinger Circle
of Alumni (Ratzinger Schülerkreis) in Rome last Saturday.

*“In the current discussions, there is always talk of a further development
of Church doctrine,*” Woelki pointed out. *“However, further development in
the sense of Dei Verbum and Verbum Domini can only mean that what is true
from eternity is being reinterpreted in our time. Ratzinger also calls this
relecture.”*

Dei Verbum
<http://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/documents/vat-ii_const_19651118_dei-verbum_en.html>
is the Second Vatican Council’s document on revelation, and Verbum Domini
<http://www.vatican.va/content/benedict-xvi/en/apost_exhortations/documents/hf_ben-xvi_exh_20100930_verbum-domini.html>,
released by Pope Benedict XVI in 2010, focuses on similar issues.

*“Further development … cannot mean **that the supposed tradition
contradicts itself, for example by being in complete opposition to** the
previous ecclesiastical teaching authority,”** Woelki **said.*

The cardinal specifically criticized a document
<https://www.synodalerweg.de/fileadmin/Synodalerweg/Dokumente_Reden_Beitraege/Regionenkonferenz-20200904-3-Synodalforum-III-Arbeitstext.pdf>
created for the Synodal Path focusing on the role of women in the Church
and implicitly advocating for female ordination by claiming that Jesus
Christ didn’t ordain anyone. “I cannot even go into the one-sided
quotations and the omissions, which is how extensive this matter would be,”
he said.

“I would like to say that the tradition in the Church is merely put in
second place in the document,” he continued. “De facto, however, it must be
said that the bulwark of tradition in the Church, which protects the Bible
from being interpreted in a fundamentalist or ideological way, does not
exist.”

*If tradition was seen as the Second Vatican Council had explained, it
would “quickly become apparent that the tradition of the Church does not**
recognize the ordination of women.”*

*The Second Vatican Council had pointed out, “Sacred theology rests on the
written word of God, together with sacred tradition, as its primary and
perpetual foundation.”*

Additionally, the Council fathers stated, “It is clear, therefore, that
sacred tradition, Sacred Scripture and the teaching authority of the
Church, in accord with God's most wise design, are so linked and joined
together that *one cannot stand without the others, and that all together
and each in its own way under the action of the one Holy Spirit contribute
effectively to the salvation of souls.”*

Speaking of the Synodal Path, Woelki commented, “Now the question arises:
why do we not want to listen to the Word of God that is revealed in the
tradition?”

An answer must be found to today’s realities of life, Woelki admitted, “but
not against revelation. I would also like to remind you that *the original
reality of life that led to the Synodal Path was the loss of credibility of
the Good News and the Church through sexual abuse by clergy.”*

“If only a marginal paragraph is devoted to this problem” in the document
on the role of women in the Church, “I cannot hide the suspicion that this
reality of life seems to be only a vehicle to make long cherished wishes
come true.”

*Woelki **signaled his openness to dialog about the realities of life but
cautioned*,* “I am not prepared to do so against the living tradition of
the Church. **This distorts **the Word of God.* *This makes* *the dialog
with God** impossible, which should lead us to our actual happiness and to
true joy.”*

*Regensburg Bishop Rudolf Voderholzer said in a recent interview
<https://www.katholisch.de/artikel/27035-synodaler-weg-voderholzer-teilt-sorge-vor-kirchenspaltung>,*
“A whole series of *demands made by members of the Synodal Path*, which
were intensified and intensified in the media, have become the subject of
high expectations. But they *are clearly contrary to** the teaching of the
Church* *and therefore contain the danger of schism.”*

Cardinal Woelki himself had warned
<https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/german-church-in-danger-of-becoming-national-church-and-secularized-two-cardinals-warn>
of a German “national church” just a few weeks ago.

“The worst result would be if the Synodal Path leads to division and thus
out of the Church, out of communion with the universal Church. *That would
be the worst, if some kind of German national church were to emerge here.”*

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