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Bishop Georg Bätzing, president of the German bishops’ conference in St. Peter’s Square, June 27, 2020. | Deutsche Bischofskonferenz/Matthias Kopp.On Monday, the president of the German Bishops’ Conference said he welcomed a new letter from the Vatican detailing concerns about the push for a permanent synodal council — a new controlling body of the Church in Germany.
The bishops of Cologne, Regensburg, Passau, Eichstätt, and Augsburg wrote to the Vatican on Dec. 21, 2022. They raised what Bätzing acknowledged on Monday were “justified and necessary questions” — in particular, whether bishops could be compelled to abide by such a council’s authority. The latest missive, dated Jan. 16, informed Bätzing “that neither the Synodal Way, nor any body established by it, nor any bishops’ conference has the competence to establish the ‘synodal council’ at the national, diocesan, or parish level.”
According to this document, such a synodal council would come about after a “synodal committee” was formed, which then would deliberate the details of the new national governing body. The permanent synodal council would function “as a consultative and decision-making body on essential developments in the Church and society,” the German proposal states.
Kasper has previously accused the organizers of the German Synodal Way, also known as the “Synodal Path,” of using a"lazy trick" that constituted a coup d’etat.
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