{"id":29647,"date":"2022-03-16T07:20:38","date_gmt":"2022-03-16T12:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=29647"},"modified":"2022-03-16T07:20:38","modified_gmt":"2022-03-16T12:20:38","slug":"who-has-religious-war-in-europe-for-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/16\/who-has-religious-war-in-europe-for-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Has “Religious War in Europe” for 2023?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today, Kim du Toit posted a news roundup<\/a> which included a link to a Breitbart story German Cardinal Celebrates Mass Marking \u201820 Years of Queer Worship\u2019<\/a>:<\/p>\n

German Cardinal Reinhard Marx celebrated a Mass Sunday to commemorate \u201c20 years of queer worship and pastoral care\u201d in Munich, Germany.<\/p>\n

\u201cI desire an inclusive Church, a Church that includes all who want to walk the way of Jesus,\u201d said Cardinal Marx, the archbishop of Munich and an adviser to Pope Francis.<\/p>\n

According to the archdiocesan website, the cardinal was preaching to a \u201cqueer congregation.\u201d<\/p>\n

In his homily, Marx insisted that Jesus himself was opposed to \u201cthose who exclude\u201d but rather \u201cwould like to invite everyone with the primacy of love!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe kingdom of God is to discover that God is love \u2014 in all its dimensions,\u201d said Marx, which includes \u201cthe sexual dimension.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

One cannot take it too lightly because it’s on Breitbart, as the New Oxford Review<\/em>‘s editor thinks a schism might be brewing on the continent<\/a>:<\/p>\n

World, be warned: The Germans are on the march again.<\/p>\n

This time they\u2019re boldly tramping down the Synodal Path, and they\u2019re being led by their nation\u2019s Catholic bishops. And many in the Church are worried that their final destination will be schism.<\/p>\n

Two years ago, the German Church launched a reform program, prompted by revelations of decades of rampant clerical sexual abuse and episcopal cover-up. At first it sounded like good and even necessary work. But over time, the focus of the reform movement, otherwise known as the \u201cSynodal Path,\u201d shifted, eventually homing in on a list of \u201cbinding\u201d reforms that, if approved by the bishops\u2019 conference, would contradict longstanding Catholic teaching on issues such as same-sex relationships, ecumenism, lay roles in the Mass, clerical celibacy, and women\u2019s ordination. The recent release of the \u201cFundamental Text,\u201d the document guiding the German Church\u2019s deliberations, raised many an ecclesiastical eyebrow. At one point, it states that the Catholic Church appears \u201cregressive\u2026especially in the field of gender justice, in the evaluation of queer sexual orientations, and in dealing with failure and new beginnings.\u201d Elsewhere, it states that \u201cthere is no one truth of the religious, moral, and political world, and no one form of thought can lay claim to ultimate authority.\u201d<\/p>\n

Such worldly \u201cwisdom\u201d masquerading as Catholic theology is why many observers are speculating that the German Church\u2019s march down the Synodal Path could lead to its severing from the Church of Rome.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The whole article requires registration\/subscription to New Oxford Review<\/em>, but clearly Pieter Vree takes the situation in Germany very seriously.<\/p>\n

You know, I am half-Catholic, and I like some of its doctrine over Protestant equivalents, but the Church itself is more worldly than heavenly these days, and probably has been since its inception.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today, Kim du Toit posted a news roundup which included a link to a Breitbart story German Cardinal Celebrates Mass Marking \u201820 Years of Queer Worship\u2019: German Cardinal Reinhard Marx celebrated a Mass Sunday to commemorate \u201c20 years of queer worship and pastoral care\u201d in Munich, Germany. \u201cI desire an inclusive Church, a Church that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29647"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29648,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29647\/revisions\/29648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}