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Jonathan Liedl

Mar 10 • 4 tweets • 3 min read

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I’m providing some running highlights from German #SynodalerWeg. But if you want timely news stories on all the significant developments, best bet is to check out @CNAdeutsch: faithful, fast, and actually German! Nothing in Catholic media compares!

Translated links below!🧵

Prelude to the last synodal assembly: Synodal path should "make the church fit for the future”: …catholicnewsagency-com.translate.goog/news/12757/auf…

Synodal path confirms text as basis for discussion about celibacy, women's ordination: …catholicnewsagency-com.translate.goog/news/12758/syn…

Synodal path wants to open door for married priests

…catholicnewsagency-com.translate.goog/news/12759/syn…

Synodal path wants to open door for married priests

…catholicnewsagency-com.translate.goog/news/12759/syn…

Synodal path votes for lay sermon and lay baptism, rejects examination of lay confession

…catholicnewsagency-com.translate.goog/news/12761/syn…

Synodal Path resolves to officially institute blessings of homosexual unions

…catholicnewsagency-com.translate.goog/news/12763/syn…

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Jonathan Liedl

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Mar 11

Sr. Ganz: I would like to live my vocation as a women religious, but I can only live *part* of my vocation.

Many speakers say something similar, asserting that a subjective sense that they’re supposed to be priests means that objective Church teaching should change to match

+Voderholzer (Regensburg): reads a quote: “Maybe the Catholic Church, due to its own structures, is the last threshold of humanity when it comes to differentiating the access of different genders.”

He is one of only 3 bishops to publicly vote against SW’s controversial proposals

Gregor Podschun keeps it short and sweet: “I don’t need to say anything that hasn’t already been said by women. The patriarchy needs to be destroyed.”

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Now: Voting on Members of the Synodal Commission🧵

The Synodal Commission will work to establish the permanent, national Synodal Council.

https://twitter.com/jlliedl/status/1634455473809137664

They’ll vote on TWENTY delegates who will join the 27 bishops and 27 lay people already designated for the committee.

Central Committee of German Catholics (ZdK) and the German Bishops Conference already got to pick their 27, each.

For the bishops conference, it’s automatically all the ordinaries. 27 arch/dioceses in Germany.

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Mar 11

German Synodal Way, Day 3 🧵:

Up first: “Dealing with gender diversity”

Opening speaker says this isn’t just important for the minority of non-binary people, but for all of us to discover our gender identity.

The promise of life God makes through the words of the prophet Isaiah are empty if people’s true gender identity is ignored.

Affirming people’s gender identity is not only a human right but a Christian duty.

We can move forward with action items not just for dioceses in Germany, but in the universal Church.

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German Synodal Way: Vote on Action Text “Blessings for Couples Who Love Each Other” 🧵

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Key background: back in the September assembly, the foundational text on sexual morality/anthropology FAILED to pass after less than 2/3 of the bishops agreed to support it. It prompted hysterics, demand to know how bishops voted, got rid of private vote

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There is a LOT of pre-talk from the rules committee folks about how compromise went into crafting this document, and how it might not be what everyone wanted, etc. Definitely a sense that this is a very controversial, contested topic.

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#SynodalerWeg Press conference beginning 🧵

https://twitter.com/jlliedl/status/1634102965597356032

Dr. Beates Gilles begins by commenting on Maria 1.0’s criticism of last night performance at the Frankfurt cathedral. Said the performance was all about empowering victims of clergy sexual abuse. The Synodal Way has said it’s proposals are about addressing the sex abuse crisis.