German bishops’ leader raps ‘unbrotherly’ Polish criticism
November 27, 2023
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CWN Editor's Note: Bishop Georg Bätzing of Limburg, the president of the German bishops’ conference, has reacted angrily to comments from his Polish counterpart about the German Synodal Path.
Bishop Bätzing said that Archbishop Stanislaw Gadecki of Poznan exhibited “unbrotherly behavior” when he wrote to Pope Francis to say that the German initiative endangered the unity of the Church. The German bishops’ leader said that Archbishop Gadecki was “enormously overstepping his authority” by making “false claims” about the Synodal Path.
Archbishop Gadecki recently told Catholic World Report that “the Church in Germany is in the greatest crisis since the Reformation.”
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Nov. 28, 2023 9:12 AM ET USA
Archbishop Gadecki was consecrated in 1992. Bätzing, who was made bishop by Francis in 2016, should listen and accept the critical voice of his older brother in episcopacy as "correctio fraterna" - a brotherly correction. The silence of the "good" shepherds in face of moral and doctrinal decay is what harms the Church from within.
