German Bishop Stefan Oster has criticized the pro-LGBT guidelines for Catholic schools published by the German Bishops’ Conference (DBK).
In a statement published on his personal website, Oster distanced himself from the DBK’s heterodox document on “sexual diversity” in Catholic schools.
“Even though the cover of the brochure says ‘The German Bishops,’ the text does not speak on my behalf,” the Bishop of Passau wrote, distancing himself from “its content and its theological, philosophical, pedagogical, and developmental psychological substance.”
For Oster, the document is part of a fundamental struggle over Christian anthropology.
“The concept of humankind and the Church as sacraments is up for debate in this discussion,” he stated.
He believes that “in its current form, the text produced by the Commission for Religious Education is well on the way to a desacralized understanding of humankind.”
He stressed that the Catholic understanding of humanity must not be abandoned, but warned that the document may be doing just that.
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