15 a desire to regain divine grace, or for any other pious reason, believe that you received the Spirit of the Lord, who will be accompanied by incredible consolations. REFLECTIONS The last decade of the Church’s history has been a period of exposing certain weaknesses and the gradual discovery of trends of schism which have become unprecedently noticeable e.g. in the Church of the German-speaking regions. In the process of the consultations during the Synod on Synodality summoned by Pope Francis for the years, 2021-2023, several interesting and yet alarming postulates have been formulated. Cardinal Reinhard Marx, the Archbishop of Munich and Freising, calls for lifting the rules of celibacy for priests in the Catholic Church and he does not preclude the priesthood of women; Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich, Archbishop of Luxembourg, following some circles of lay Catholics in Germany, postulates changes in the teaching of the Church on homosexuality claiming that the socio-scientific grounds of the teaching are no longer true.1 Also, the chairman of the German Bishops’ Conference, Bp. Georg Bätzing, calls for a change in the teaching of the Catholic Church on sexuality, particularly homosexuality. He believes that sexuality is not a sin and a sexually active homosexual may be a good Catholic. He claims that when a gay couple lives together faithfully and responsibly, they do not in any way break their relationship with God. Like others, he advocates for lifting celibacy and for the ordination of women.2 George Weigel, commenting on the above-mentioned stances, thinks that Germany’s synodal path abandons the Gospel. The American theologian describes these pursuits as the Catholic Lite project. It is an attempt to detach the Church from the Scripture and Tradition. It is a Catholicism that could not tell you with certainty what it believes in or what makes righteous living; a Church of open borders, unable or unwilling to define those ideas and actions by which full communion with the Mystical Body 1 Cf. https://www.fronda.pl/a/kard-marx-chce-zniesienia-obowiazkowego-celibatu-lepiej- aby-byli-zonaci,173170.html; https://www.fronda.pl/a/z-niemiec-homoherezja-wylewa-sie-na- caly-kosciol-kard-hollerich-kosciol-musi-zmienic-nauczanie-nt-homoseksualizmu,173204. html. 2 Cf. https://pch24.pl/bp-georg-batzing-chce-zmian-cel-blogoslawienie-homozwiazkow-i- kaplanstwo-kobiet/.
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