Central Committee of German Catholics wants to Abolish Majority vote of Bishops in German Synods

Irma Stetter-Karp asked that future decisions in the Synod Committee or Synod Council no longer depend on a two-thirds majority of the bishops.

 

Editor (09/05/2023 09:48, Gaudium Press) The president of the Central Committee of German Catholics (ZdK) – which many say does not proportionally represent the laity of that country – has expressed her wish that at an upcoming German synod, the need to link the decisions of these meetings to the approval of a two-thirds majority of the bishops is abolished.

Certainly, Irma Stetter-Karp, president of the ZdK, blames this rule, for not having taken even more radical measures than those that have been adopted. For Stetter-Karp, this requirement was a “painful learning experience” from the German Synodal Way.

Joint decisions between bishops and laypeople in the German Church at the federal level will continue in the so-called Synodal Commission starting in November.

Stetter-Karp added that a minority among German bishops had expressed in recent months “that they have fundamental doubts of legitimacy about the path taken.” She considered it a “sign of weakness” in the Bishops’ Conference, assuring that the Synodal Path was not an initiative of the laity, but of the German episcopate.

We expect the German Bishops’ Conference to fulfill its responsibility as a whole,” said ZdK Vice President Thomas Söding. “We adhere to the joint resolutions.” In his opinion, the decisions of the synodal process in Germany are “a great opportunity to get the Catholic Church out of the paralyzing reform impasse.”

With information CNA Deutsch

Compiled by Carlos Ruiz

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