
Confronting Controversy: German-Polish Bishops’ Dialogue Highlights Synodal Way Tensions
The German prelate roundly criticized the Polish archbishop for raising several serious concerns about the controversial German process with Pope Francis.
The German prelate roundly criticized the Polish archbishop for raising several serious concerns about the controversial German process with Pope Francis.
COMMENTARY: The run-up to Pope Francis’ trip to Malta and Holy Week included ‘Canada week,’ ‘Poland week,’ a meeting with the head of the Syro-Malankara Church and the publication of a major instruction on Catholic education.
COMMENTARY: That Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople would travel to Warsaw to stand alongside a Catholic bishop to call out the Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill is altogether remarkable.
The Polish archbishop quoted a Russian soldier in Ukraine as saying: ‘We don’t know who to shoot at; they all look like us.’
In a letter published Feb. 22, Archbishop Stanisław Gądecki questioned whether the initiative bringing together Germany’s bishops and laypeople was rooted in the Gospel.
Pope Francis sent a video message to participants in the Warsaw meeting in which he urged leaders to put the welfare of victims ahead of the Church’s reputation.
The archbishop praised people who not only worked for full legal protection of unborn life, but also offered help and support to expectant mothers.
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