Unfortunately the church tax dynamics that happen here as in Germany lead to the same issues - the church as some kind of humanitarian organisation where we need to conform to the world. It’s also interesting that it’s particularly more pronounced in the German speaking cantons.
// The statement said that the Church in Switzerland wanted to create the new body out of a “desire for more participation and community in fulfilling its mission,” as well as “to promote synodality as a Church style for decision-making processes.” //
It seems to me that the more layers of a bureaucratic edifice you construct, the further down those near the bottom are pushed. They may talk all they wish, but what they say is less likely to be heard at the top, not more, if only because it will have to be interpreted and reinterpreted and recontextualized and depersonalized the more levels up it will have to travel.
Synodality is an attack on the Church, attractive to those who desire to change the Church to suit the whims of a hedonistic era, and justified by some vague aim of "being more relevant". Ultimately I think that's an arrogant pursuit and represents a crisis of faith. The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Unfortunately the church tax dynamics that happen here as in Germany lead to the same issues - the church as some kind of humanitarian organisation where we need to conform to the world. It’s also interesting that it’s particularly more pronounced in the German speaking cantons.
// The statement said that the Church in Switzerland wanted to create the new body out of a “desire for more participation and community in fulfilling its mission,” as well as “to promote synodality as a Church style for decision-making processes.” //
It seems to me that the more layers of a bureaucratic edifice you construct, the further down those near the bottom are pushed. They may talk all they wish, but what they say is less likely to be heard at the top, not more, if only because it will have to be interpreted and reinterpreted and recontextualized and depersonalized the more levels up it will have to travel.
Synodality is an attack on the Church, attractive to those who desire to change the Church to suit the whims of a hedonistic era, and justified by some vague aim of "being more relevant". Ultimately I think that's an arrogant pursuit and represents a crisis of faith. The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.