VATICAN CITY (AP) — Germany’s Catholic bishops insisted Saturday that their reform process won’t lead to a schism and vowed to continue it after tense meetings with Vatican officials who want a moratorium on proposals to ordain women, bless same-sex unions and rethink church teaching on sexuality.
Conservative Catholics have criticized the moves and warned the German reforms, if approved, could lead to schism.
The bishop said he was returning home with a sense of “relief and worry,” after a week of meetings with Vatican prefects and Pope Francis, as well as the belief that continued talks were necessary., calls for involving Germany lay representatives in round-table talks with Vatican officials as the process continues.The German lay group We Are Church said Saturday that it was fortunate the idea of a moratorium, floated by some Vatican and German bishops, was averted.
One matter that was discussed, but not resolved concerns the fate of Cologne Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki, aFrancis gave Woelki, 66, a “spiritual timeout” last year but has not acted on the cardinal’s offer to resign, which was submitted in March.
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