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What lies ahead for the Church in Germany?
February 24, 2023
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CWN Editor's Note: Journalist Birgit Kelle sketches three possibilities in her insightful analysis:
- Reconciliation: in which German Church leaders turn away from their current path and embrace the perennial teachings of the Church. This outcome, Kelle writes, is obviously most desirable but unfortunately least likely.
- A “dirty schism” in which the German Church effectively breaks from the universal Church, but without any formal rebuke from the Vatican. The result would be a case of conflicting authorities, with the secular government siding with the German rebels against loyal Catholics. This outcome, the author says, is both worst and most likely.
- Outside schism, in which the German hierarchy renounced ties with Rome, would be disastrous. But at least in that case the situation would be clear.
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