Fri Nov 25, 2022 - 2:09 pm EST (LifeSiteNews) — The head of the German bishops’ conference has declared that he does not want to “accept an irrevocable ‘No’ from the Vatican” regarding the ordination of women priests. According to a report by the German bishops’ own news site katholisch.de, Bishop Georg Bätzing said that “even if Rome sees this point as settled, it is still an urgent question” that has been asked and is therefore “on the table.” Bätzing stressed that women are the central issue for the future. “Access to the ecclesiastical office must be opened up, or it is hard to imagine the future of the Church in our country,” the prelate said. “We must vigorously defend our German causes,” he proclaimed. At the same time, he also dampened expectations that celibacy for priests would be lifted and women admitted to the ordained ministry at the end of the German Synodal Way. “On Universal Church issues, we can only ask for our concerns to be processed,” Bätzing said. “We …
There go the Germans, acting as if they have all the authority in the earth and heavens. Hey, all crappy ideas over the last 500+ years came from the German people.