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Jul 18, 2022Liked by JD Flynn

I still need that button to like the reporting and dislike the information I’m reading.

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Jul 18, 2022·edited Jul 18, 2022

This all will be reported thusly by the lockstep legacy media. “Germany [with implied but never explicit Papal encouragement] leads all toward an emerging, more enlightened Catholic future. Only retrograde/revanchist American clericalists stand in the way.” Nobody will point out that the Episcopal church already tried this and has cratered.

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At least they have the courage to be open heretics, I guess. Better that than the squishes so common over here.

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I am going to ask St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross to pray for them again. They say that Germans want to be told to read challenging things that were written by a woman in modern times, and want to make amends (through their willing attention to such voices) for past sexism and abuses that has caused a woman to be treated unjustly... Perhaps this would be too challenging, though; I don't know.

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If traditionalism means an adherence to the penultimate state of the Church, wouldn't that be the 1970s? Since the traditionalists want to return to the antepenultimate state, or even before that, how does this affect their theory?

By "living tradition" they mean something like "right side of history". It is an attempt to imagine a future Church (which has fully embraced everything they want) which looks back on them as prophets. But you cannot tell if a prophet is a true prophet until their words come to pass. Every false prophet claims that their words will come to pass, but only time will tell. They just want to win the argument by arguing that they are going to win anyway and so we may as well give up.

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Quo vadis, Germanorum ecclesia? Reading this summary seems to answer that there is a significant lack of leadership and trust in the power of the Holy Spirit. It reads like a version of Socialist/Communist principles. Jesus didn’t mince words or diminish his “message” just because people had a problem with what He was teaching. I have the feeling that the German bishops have, in the main, abrogated their responsibilities to teach the hard truths with charity, and are unwilling to stand up to the modern day Pharisees of Secular Humanism so ably represented by the “Central Committee of German Catholics.”

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This isn't a synod. It's a second reformation. And in such a slow moving, bureaucratic, German way. Just look at that photo. What a crabbed looking group of boomers.

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I truly wish that the German bishops would just pack up and leave the Catholic Church, taking their nonsensical ideas with them.

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Jul 19, 2022·edited Jul 19, 2022

What I don't understand is, if you want to be Protestants, there are a plethora of churches out there for you to join. Why do you want to ruin the Catholic Church with your nonsense?

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