The chairman of the German Catholic bishops’ conference has responded to a letter from the Nordic bishops expressing alarm at the direction of the “Synodal Way.”
Bishop Georg Bätzing insisted in a letter dated March 28 that the controversial multi-year process presented no risk of schism.
In the letter, seen by CNA Deutsch, CNA’s German-language news partner, he said that the “Synodal Way” was not seeking to create a “Sonderweg,” a historically loaded term that literally means special path, for the German Church in isolation from the worldwide Church.
Bishop Georg Bätzing at the closing press conference of the spring plenary meeting of the German bishops’ conference. | Martin Rothweiler/EWTN.TV.