Vatican publishes Card Ouellet’s address to German bishops calling for moratorium of @DerSynodaleWeg, which they rejected. Remarkable that this should be laid bare so transparently. It’s a very strong message. 8 highlights (using Deepl) follow: vaticannews.va/de/vatikan/new… 1. Says he is offering comments “as a brother in episcopal ministry, but also with an eye to the needs of the ordinary faithful” — ie for the good of the ordinary believers, for whom (he says later) Synodaler Weg has sown “doubt and confusion”.

1/4 So far @catholicEW silent on Trussonomics, despite popes explicitly deploring neoliberalism (cf Evangelii Gaudium #54). Could this be because their now research/policy director Philip Booth is senior fellow at IEA, the neo-liberal think-tank that spawned this cruel mess? 2/4 When Truss was elected with her well-publicised radical neo-liberal agenda the bishops put out a briefing paper on cost of living crisis drafted by Booth. It said Church had no view on “technical” policy questions, & focussed on charity and welfare. cbcew.org.uk/briefing-cost-…

Pope’s arrival speech in Kazakhstan: key messages on politics:

(1) a healthy secularity acknowledges indispensable role of religion while resisting forms of extremism that disfigures it; (2) democracy is “the most suitable form for translating power into service to the entire people and not simply to a few”

1/14 The Catechism of the Catholic Church defines schism as “the refusal of submission to the Supreme Pontiff or of communion with the members of the Church subject to him.” There is always a choice: submit or rebel. 2/14 Prophets & saints & faithful people always submit (sometimes patiently, suffering in silence, and sometimes vindicated by history). Schismatics always refuse to submit.