Cleric: Ludger Schepers
German Bishop Claims Homosexuality ‘Part of God’s Plan of Creation’
A German bishop has raved against “patriarchy” and traditional gender roles while claiming sexual and gender “identity” is part of God’s design for humanity. Ludger Schepers, auxiliary bishop of Essen ...
German Bishop Believes Some People Born in ‘Wrong’ Body
When it comes to sexuality, the Church's magisterium and Christian anthropology "must" adopt the "latest findings of science", the German bishops' representative for the pastoral care of homosexuals, Auxiliary Bishop ...
German Bishop Attacks Church Teaching On There Being Only Two Sexes
A German bishop criticized Catholic teaching for “assuming there is only man and only woman” and demanded that the Church change its infallible doctrine on sexuality in the latest heterodox ...
German Bishop Commissions 13 Female ‘Deacons in the Spirit’ with Support of Bishops’ Conference Head
Thirteen German women have been “commissioned” as “deacons in the spirit” by a local bishop following a three-year “female deacons” training plan, in an event praised by the president of ...
The “Queer” Pastoral Care of the German Bishops
The story is appalling, yet I can’t help finding a comic aspect to the German bishops’ announcement that Bishop Ludger Schepers “will be the representative for queer pastoral care.” On ...