
Cardinal Marx calls for reform of Catholic teaching on sexuality
Munich Cardinal Reinhard Marx has called for a more positive view of sexuality and a reform of Catholic doctrine relating to it.
Munich Cardinal Reinhard Marx has called for a more positive view of sexuality and a reform of Catholic doctrine relating to it.
In the March issue of The Synodal Times, we report on the Continental Assembly of the Synod that took place in Prague and hear from esteemed contributors on current hot-button issues.
The conflict between Catholic reformers in Germany and the headquarters of the Church in Rome continued to escalate as the Vatican issued a new stop signal at the start of the spring plenary meeting of the German Bishops’ Conference in Dresden on Monday.
Vatican Cardinal Marc Ouellet has warned against a schism in the Catholic Church in light of the reform debate underway among Catholics in Germany.
According to its moderator, Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich, the Synod of Bishops in Rome in October will also include laypeople, women and men.
In their Continental submission to the second working session of the European Assembly, Prague, February 7, 2023, Irish delegates Julieann Moran and Fr Eamonn Fitzgibbon spoke of the necessity to atone through synodality.
The President of the Central Committee of German Catholics (ZdK), Irme Stetter-Karp, does not want to “buckle and give up our function as a driving force” after criticism from Rome of German reform wishes.
“If ever proof was needed that the scriptures are the living word of God that speak as radically to us today as to the people who first listened to them, then the quote used as the title of the Synodal Working Document, is that proof,” writes Grainne Doherty.
The Christian faith is almost irrelevant, according to the president of the French Bishops’ Conference. “It no longer gives the majority of people in our countries a basis for their lives, their actions, for weighing decisions, for their views of the world,” said Archbishop Eric de Moulins-Beaufort.
The idea of a “Christian Europe” is a thing of the past, according to Luxembourg Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich.