What happened?
German bishops have begun to speak out against the “synodal path” which the bishops’ conference has agreed to pursue.
In March, conference chairman Cardinal Reinhard Marx announced that the bishops had “unanimously” agreed to revisit Church teaching. But some are now voicing their concerns.
Why was it under-reported?
The original announcement downplayed the disagreement among bishops: it is only now that figures such as Bishop Konrad Zdarsa of Augsburg have begun to express their concerns. The idea of a “synodal path” is a “fraud”, he has now told LifeSite – and he criticised the process by which it was agreed: a show of hands, from which he and others abstained. Had this been revealed at the time, it might have attracted more attention.
