The president of Poland’s Catholic bishops’ conference has expressed “fraternal concern” about the direction of the “Synodal Way” in a strongly worded letter to his German counterpart.
In the almost 3,000-word letter published on the Polish bishops’ website, Archbishop Stanisław Gądecki questioned whether the initiative bringing together Germany’s bishops and laypeople was rooted in the Gospel.
“The Catholic Church in Germany is important on the map of Europe, and I am aware that it will either radiate its faith or its unbelief onto the entire continent,” he wrote to Bishop Georg Bätzing, president of the German bishops’ conference.
