The Vatican has informed German bishops in writing that the ordination of women and changes in the Church’s teaching on homosexuality cannot be subjects of discussion in the upcoming meetings with delegates of the German Synodal Way in Rome.
The letter, dated Oct. 23, also reminded the bishops of potential disciplinary consequences for anyone defying the teaching of the Church, reported CNA Deutsch, CNA’s German-language news partner.
Written by Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican secretary of state, and addressed to the secretary general of the German Bishops’ Conference, Beate Gilles, the letter was shared with all German diocesan bishops.
The document’s authenticity was verified by CNA Deutsch with the German Bishops’ Conference on Friday.
The latest in a growing list of Vatican interventions regarding the German Synodal Way, the letter was published in full on Nov. 25 by the newspaper Tagespost.
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A strategy that is disconcerting, to say the least, in its blatant maliciousness.
First Bergoglio foments the initiatives of the German Bishops' Conference on issues not subject to discussion because they are already defined by the Magisterium: divorce, polygamy, sodomy, female… pic.twitter.com/XlVOMC5Wh5
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