In this episode Trent breaks down the German Synod's recent document supporting transgender ideology and shares what the Church can really do to help people with sexual identity disorders.
As a catholic, raising my daughters with my wife in Germany, I feel sad and angry because of these developments in the local church… deeply worried about the future - Please pray for the German bishops and the Church of Christ here.
Don't think there is anything at all wrong with German Catholics, lay people, Priests etc. etc. You are every bit our brothers and sisters. The problem seems to be 'who' is being heard. To be honest the German Church is not alone in this, it's been festering, and it's best we see it clearly in daylight. Dont worry..have peace, don't let anybody take your peace. There's only one person at the helm!
My sister (lapsed Catholic and active participant in a local Baptist church) recently got her hair cut short for the specific reason of being disgusted by being referred to as a lady with she/her pronouns. She experiences same-sex attraction but has a boyfriend, so she has identity issues on the sexuality and gender identity fronts. I ask all who view this comment to please pray for her that she may accept that she is a daughter of God, not a son, not a non-binary child, a daughter. Pray for her to grow in the virtue of chastity and that she will be able to act on her desires in a healthy way in the context of marriage, God willing.
I will pray for her. It is very hard. My dear niece going through gender crisis as well. Did you ask her what gender she thinks her body will be in the resurrection. Likely different for your sister, but at least for my knees and even myself when I was struggling with things about the modern woman that I dislike, there's often something their perceiving about what a woman should be in the culture. They greatly rebel against that. And the case of my niece, she was so beautiful as a young child that everybody would tease her about if she had a crush yet. Everybody was waiting and waiting to see who would be her first boyfriend and they really pressured that to her so much that it's very sad that they oversexualized a child like that. She was not interested in romance at all and she began to really rebel against her gender. If a female was just somebody who is constantly pressured into liking boys and dressing up and acting slutty in this way she wanted nothing to do with it and so she decided she was a boy so that she could dress and conservative clothes and feel more comfortable. In my case, when I was a kid, my stepmother greatly abused me emotionally and used the biblical verses about women's submission out of context to make me believe that women were second class citizens. Of course I don't want to be a second class citizen, so for a while I really didn't like my gender. Of course back then nobody was saying that you could switch your gender. So I think God every day that was never an option for me because I probably would have wanted to be a boy as well. At any rate, May God bless you and your sister! One of the things I have been doing is going to different ministry sites, there are some convent sites at the site for the American shrine of the Divine Mercy where you can put your dear family on prayer lists as well.
I'm always so confused about synods. Like do we have to hold everything they teach? Do we have to hold anything they teach? If the answer to these questions is no then what is their purpose?
The Blank Baptismal Certificate Dispensation seems rather imprudent if there's no limit to how long it can be left blank. Still great video however, thank you! Pray that Papa Francis shows zero tolerance for such defiance of the Church and pray for the reversion/reconciliation of the German people!
This whole thing is a very sly attack from Satan, he somehow got it right to got many otherwise normal Christians to believe that homosexuality is the one special sin, the one where your sin becomes your identity. The one sin you cannot be reformed from, the one sin you are born to do and you can't do anything about it, the one sin given a special flag, a special month and the one sin that we are constantly reminded that we need to affirm there lifestyle. This sin became so special that even the Vatican can't treat it like any other. If these Bishops approved of racists (a sin less popular in the world these days) they would have been excommunicated long ago with the world cheering. So what I learned is that sins popular in the world is popular in the Church, sins scoffed at by the world is scoffed at by the church.
“The church should be a place where everyone is welcomed, AND ENCOURAGED TO SEEK HOLINESS.” That second part is what a lot of progressive Christians (if you can even call them that) miss out on. They fundamentally miss the one of the big points of the church. You don’t go to church to be “accepted” You go to Worship GOD and encourage one another to be holier. And to transform yourself and your life and ideas about life.
Very good video! I will need to watch it again, maybe a couple of times. My granddaughter, a PhD. in psychology, attended one of the most widely recognized "woke" universities in the U.S., obtaining her undergrad, do I dare say, indoctrination. Her post-grad has come from a more traditional, very good, private university, FIT. She has very well exercised arguments for this whole gender / sex issue. Although she has chosen not to practice any faith, she is not an atheist, and therefore, I feel I may still have a way to reach her. At least, give her some very philosophical and theological alternatives to consider. Thank you for yet another educational and enlightening video.
This kind of happenings within the Church is what causes many people to quit the Church (remember your previous video "Bad Reasons to leave the Church", Trent?). It's like riding on a bus heading to, say, Yosemite ("J" = Jesus, the focus). But somewhere along the way, people in the bus told the driver to take this way and that way and at the end the bus is not heading to but away from J. So the other passengers who still want to go to J would hop off the bus. I'm sorry if I make a bad analogy. I'm just tired. Recently Ascencion Press posted a poll: Are you a Catholic? I can't even answer that. Not because "or non-Catholic?" but because "what does 'Catholic' here/now mean anyway, to us/me?"
Really appreciate your charity Trent but as you said yourself these people are disingenuous and although we cannot judge their hearts, we can certainly affirm their fruits are bad. Not worried about my own faith but concerned for those who fall away from the Church over this.
@@Crusader33ad hopefully not. Pope Francis already told them Bishops can’t bless sin. If the Pope let’s this go I think it’ll invalidate the faith. It violates Scripture in that the Holy Spirit will lead the Church into all truth
@@brianfarley926 - watching Francis operate makes me uneasy. He may be influenced by Peronism, a political tactic from Argentina. One tries to placate both sides while having a leftist agenda. On abortion, Francis says it’s wrong, then praises and greets warmly Italy’s most notorious abortionist, Emma Bonino. Francis’s silence speaks volumes. After all he is the one who set up this ridiculous synod which had no authority until his pontificate
@@Crusader33ad we shall watch and see what happens. I think regarding that he speaks vehemently against abortion but was polite when meeting someone who is pro abortion isn’t wrong. I disagree with many people who are pro abortion doctor but I can’t get anywhere if I’m an ass to them either for them to recognize they’re on the wrong side of history. Being polite creates an opportunity for dialogue as well
@@brianfarley926 - brian, Francis didn’t invite the most egregious pro abort in Italy’s history to convert her. He PRAISED her! She developed a method to kill babies using a pump so it could circumvent italys abortion ban. She is pure evil and Francis warmly lauded her Not “politeness”. Just as he has invited transvestites and sodomite couples and warmly embraced them with cameras clicking. Classic Peronism
these modern abominations are literally preventing me from committing to a conversion to the Catholic church. the level of worldliness oozing into the church in the recent decade is mind boggling. what is going on? it is shaking my recent acceptance that Christ was guiding this church by His Spirit. :|
This document can’t be taken seriously. The wordings used indicate that a choice had already been made before trying to back it up by shallow science. Starting a sentence by “However, it can by no means” entails that a precise statement based on solid science would follow. Instead, the person follows with a loose usage of the terms hormones and epigenetics. Hormone production doesn’t determine the genetics, but it’s the other way around. I’ve never heard of a hormone “oestradistol”. I find it weird for a biological scientist to use typology to explain the obvious fact of genetic variability. The logic seems forced in many ways. I doubt the author of this excerpt is a scientist. Whether he’s Christian, I’ll leave it for a more experienced person to say..
This document may be one of the Gold Standard Examples of what James Lindsay calls the "Iron Law of Woke Projection". Pray for the church, that God will depose these bishops.
Please pray for those few German bishops who publically and at great personal risk opposed the heretical notions put forth by their colleagues: His Excellency the Most Reverend Rudolf Vorderholzer, Bishop of Regensburg His Excellency the Most Reverend Gregor Maria Hanke, Bishop of Eichstätt His Excellency the Most Reverend Stefan Oster, Bishop of Passau His Excellency the Most Reverend Dominikus Schwaderlapp, auxilary Bishop of Köln His Excellency the Most Reverend Florian Wörner, auxilary Bishop of Augsburg as well as everyone who opposed at least some of the texts and voted "yes" or "neutral" on others. That too took great bravery given the circumstances.
this is so very disappointing. I truly hope America doesn't follow suit. my parish has a come as you are campaign. I haven't been to it, but I really hope they aren't giving a blanket acceptance of gay and trans ideologies
We must pray for the faithful Catholics in Germany, both clergy and laity. They do exist. I hope they will rally behind Mueller and Ganswein. I feel sure that Pope Benedict XVI would be shocked at what is happening in his land. The Pope has repeatedly stated that the Church cannot and will not bless sinful unions [same sex unions]. Still the German want to go ahead.
To say that the church has often shrunk and contracted down the centuries in various areas is a false equivalence, and somewhat disingenuous. It might be so that the church does not exist in prominence in certain areas of the world any more, such as Turkey and North Africa, but for the almost entire corruption of the clergy as we have today is a first. It's not just the German bishops, it's most of the clergy these days. Like in my own parish, a priest told me in confession the sin I was confessing wasn't really a sin, and I know it's a sin since it's in the bible. And again another priest, off the altar put into doubt the veracity of the old testament simply because it seems cruel to modern sensitivities. He said that God's will had been misinterpreted for things like the the command to kill the Canaanites. We also have Bishop Barron espousing the same lies and nonsense to placate a world that has become so far removed from nature and reality, they think eating an animal is wrong. We have a huge level of corruption of the clergy, and cardinal Pell said as much before he died. Stop making excuses Trent and call it for what it is, an ecclesial mess. Okay, let's see Pope Francis stand up as chief pastor of the catholic church and condemn and anathematize these bishops.
"Is a first" Not really. 90% of bishops used to be Arians. The point trent was making is that while the gates of hell will not prevail this does not mean the Catholic church will not struggle. In fact there has been moments in time where it looked bleaked. The church it's self was sold out accusations of a pope being an anti pope or the criticisms of the clergy makes ours look like an utter inconvenience in. comparison.
Jesus, the Nazarene stumbled three times on the way to His crucifixion. BUT, He stand up and continued!! Church will fell to the ground but will RISE UP to it's feet to finish the journey.
I'm a protestant, and I just can't understand what is even the point. I've heard so many times from Trent when he debated for the necessity of Papacy that Church needs it to safeguard the orthodoxy but now, it seems to me that when Catholic Church breaks in half you're going through the exact same thing we protestants go. Your elders go in both directions leaving lay people scared, disoriented and confused and your leader is silent when he should be excluding the heretics immediately and declaring truth from the rooftops to preserve as much of the floch as he can. It seems to me it was all talk. There really isn't any gatekeeping in Vatican, just an abstract idea of it.
I would reply that the only way you have perfect unity is with perfect leadership (Jesus) which only happens in the church's glorified state in heaven. Instead, we can only *begin* to replicate that here on earth with our popes and bishops as Jesus desired to begin to imitate the eternal reality. The only way you can even start grasping at that reality, though, is by having a church leader with the ability to bind and loose in a unique and singular way. Without that, unity under one or a few leaders is truly abstract as authority is derived from consent of the governed instead of authority from heaven. That's how I see it at least.
There have been many schisms and heresies in the history of the Church. This wouldn't be the first episode of it. There are many assumptions in your comment such as "When" the Church breaks...which is not a forgone conclusion- by any means. The Holy Father has already declared that this is an error from the German Bishops so he is guarding orthodoxy. It is just not as forceful as some of us would like. There is a segment of baby boomer generation of leaders in the Church who are desperate to lead it astray but they, like all their predecessors, will not succeed. Your argument seems to cut against all Christian churches and how they will fracture into heterodoxy, tread lightly, friend. Jesus is with us till the end of the age.
"Breaks in half" is a bit strong when you consider this is only one country and the majority of faithful Catholics across the globe are opposed to this. Just because Francis hasn't spoken yet doesn't mean he won't and even if he never does, at the end of the day, Catholics DO have a means to settle these disputes and Protestants don't. If the German bishops are truly in schism it is because they left the Catholic Church who hasn't changed her teachings on the matter.
I think there are many more reasons for the necessity of the papacy. However, in regard to the point you're making, I have a few points: 1) I understand your frustration with the Pope not taking a greater stand against the German heretics. I agree that he should. 2) Despite that, the Pope clearly has the authority to "gatekeep" as you mentioned, and other popes in the past have used that authority to do so. It just so happens that in this instance, the pope isn't using his authority to do so when we think he should. 3) Think of a father, who clearly has authority to reprimand his children. He might fail to do so in some instances when he should. Does that mean there's no point in him having that authority? Of course not! It just means that he should be using it. 4) Therefore, there is a point in having a pope to safeguard orthodox Christianity.
The difference is that the Catholic Church has already ruled on all these issues. These German bishops are teaching otherwise after the fact, making them manifest heretics according to a pre-established objective standard. When Protestants split up in the same way, new denominations are formed by the relative heretics, but the relative orthodox believers of the original group don't change their name. Now, the other way protestants split up is on Undecided matters. In those instances, the Catholic Church follows Jesus' system: Try to work it out, if not, try to work it out with more people, if not, take it to the church. Whomever hears fails to hear the church is anathema (Matthew 18:17).
I am sure that any minute now Papa Francis will step in and excommunicate these heretic bishops and put the house in order. Unless of course he is a heretic himself and thus an Antipope.
Hebrews 10:10 By which we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ ONCE for all 11 And every priest (Jewish priest) stands daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices (according to the law), which can never take away sins: *12 But this man (Jesus Christ), after "He had offered ONE sacrifice for sins FOR EVER" sat down on the right hand of God; (ONE sacrifice of actually giving His blood and body once for all for the forgiveness of all sins on the cross) *14 For by "ONE offering" He has perfected FOR EVER them that are sanctified (true believers forgiven of all sins for ever and set apart). *18 Now where remission of these (sins) is, "there is NO MORE OFFERING for sin" (no more offering for sin such as masses, confessions through popes, priests, or sacramental works administered by the RCC).
You’re interpretation of scripture is both false and lacking any authority. Both Catholics//orthodox for 2000 years follow Christ. You follow a man made religion started by Luther Christ is the high priest, so by logic there are less higher priests. Jesus NEVER abolished the priesthood but your founding Protestants did. 2peter 1:20- Protestants like you have NO authority to interpret scripture. None. You are false and thus are opposed to the truth of Christ. Why would you think that your private interpretation means anything?? It doesn’t. Oh and Jesus’s sacrifice IS once for all TIME. So as He said “do this in remembrance of Me” remembrance in Greek is anamnesis which means present in the now Protestantism is a false religion started by Luther and Calvin and even they opposed each other as heretics
I thought that Catholic Church has monolithic unity... Not like the Protestant... But seems like I was wrong! There are so many types of Catholic practices that looks pretty the same than Protestant churches... Even all are under de papacy umbrella
No, there is one teaching on every issue. That’s why Saint Paul wrote all the epistles to correct errors in the early church, the official teaching of the Catholic Church remains the same for 2000 years. The heretics will lose this battle as well. The spirit of Martin Luther lives on in these heretical bishops.
There is one doctrine. If you follow it you are a Catholic. If you don't you are a heretic. Simple as that. So when you see these bishops they aren't Catholics and are excommunicated in their hearts for now. That is same as saying I thought scientists agree Earth is spherical and than some crazy guy comes saying it is flat despite the evidence. Science isn't wrong. That person is.
this is the exact divisions that occurred in Paul's letters. It's almost impossible possible to have a agreeable universal Church for many reasons. However , dividing the church is unbiblical, so what does one do?
Isn't the church supposed to be the people? Not a building or a location? Isn't the new temple the holy spirit in followers of Christ and when they commune together considered the church?
Yes and a physical structure of authority that Jesus left. Same as God did with the Jews in the OT. The people are as lay priests, deacons, priests and bishops
If the pope does not use his authority granted to him by Jesus to direct the church according to His teachings, the pope does not deserve his authority.
@@samueljennings4809 You don't know that. The development of doctrine can also help your church leaders change things. It did that with Mary and the papacy.
The Holy Spirit doesn’t lead Bishops to teach heresy. So there’s that. It’s heretical to bless sin. Pretty much any Christian should understand that concept So if it’s your position that homosexual marriage should be blessed that’s never been taught in the Catholic Church because it directly contradicts scripture, and the sacred tradition of the Church. The Pope has also been very clear that Bishops can’t bless sin
@@Justas399 I’m not even Catholic and your points about doctrinal development don’t apply anyway. The same standard goes for those also. If it doesn’t line up with Scripture and apostolic tradition of the Fathers in line with said Scripture, it isn’t from the Holy Spirit. The Bible itself says that the Holy Spirit doesn’t lead into confusion about topics like this. God does not change His mind on what He calls abominable behaviour and will not tolerate sin. He extends mercy for the penitent but He does not condone sin or encourage people to stay in their sin but to be redeemed from the law of sin and death and reborn into the royal law of Christ and live a life pleasing to God. Our sanctification from our sin by following Jesus Christ by picking up our cross daily, and loving others is the will of Zhou (John 6, 1 John 3). The Book of Hebrews states that God has made His ultimate and final revelation of Himself in Jesus Christ. There is no future “revision” to come. That is it, until Jesus comes back.
@@brianfarley926 Your bishops taught heresy at the council of Trent when they denied the gospel in its canons. Your church is in the process of affirming homosexuality. They will find a way to bless and marry homosexuals. Many bishops already are talking about changing your catechism on homosexuality. Over 50% of catholics approve of gay "marriage". Couple with this with so many priests and bishops being homosexuals. In fact, fr James Martin who promotes homosexuality is never rebuked by your pope.
I am from germany and i had no idea that this was going on. I think it's time for the church to take a clear and definitive stance on this whole gender and lgbt nonsense; to call out and condemn heresy when it tries to sneak its way into our sacred tradition.
The rosary was initially given by Our Lady to combat heresy. How many Catholics today truly believe this and how many will pray it everyday for the situation in Germany? I'm not sure tbh but it's a great place to start 👍
The problem is that it's a waste of time deconstructing these documents, we know their complete nonsense. What we should focus on is what rot has affected the Church that documents like this are even taken seriously. We have to call out heresy
I disagree. Of course we know they're full of nonsense, that's not in debate. However it IS a fruitful endeavor to deconstruct these documents because by doing so it shows us where the nonsense is ripest, and can give us a clearer idea of how to combat 'the rot' as you say. Also, keep in mind, there are a lot of people out there that don't have the logical capacity to see the nonsense, or that just accept whatever is thrown at them because they have no will to fight; the sheeple, if you will. For their sake, at the very least, this kind of deconstruction is very valuable. This is the first step of many
I'd argue that this is not a waste of time. Heresy should not be combated with heresy but with truth. Without a clear delineation as to where these documents have fallen short, the impression it gives to the unsure faithful is that there are just two sides arguing, trying to shout over each other. To be clear, I am not saying that we should not focus on the root cause either, but my argument is simply that we should not dismiss this as a waste of time. We ought to be cognisant of the vice of wrath.
I don’t understand why these German bishops, and folks like James Martin, still have a job. Why are they not sternly warned, and then fired if they do not heed the warning? Like, what does the pope do all day?
Musst du nicht Bruder. Es ist ja nicht das 1. Mal, dass sich eine Gruppe abspaltet. Die Kirche hat es 2000 Jahre erlebt und immer überlebt Gottes Segen
I'm a catholic convert. It was difficult for me to reconcile a lot of this theological and political upheaval when I was considering. I don't want to minimize your concern and say, just go for it, it'll be clearer on the other side, I don't want to do that. But the one thing that helped me to make the decision was to remember who the true head of the church is. We follow the bishops, as they follow Christ. We follow the Pope, as he follows Christ. When earthly authorities fail us, we fall back on Christ. He is the Rock, He is the Healer, He is the Guide. When nothing else makes sense, look to Christ. That's what helped me bridge the gap. If what Jesus says about Himself is true, then I can follow Him. The Eucharist is the place to start. Things will begin to fall into place after that. May God bless you, I wish you all the best
Thankfully Pope Francis through this ill-defined process of Synod on Synodality, whether wittingly or unwittingly, has allowed many Bad Shepperds to finally reveal themselves. Matter of fact, it has been said that this Synod on Synodality is the movement of the Holy Spirit. Perhaps this is the way the Holy Spirit has decided to cleanse the Church.
That CC is done in Germany unless Pope Francis goes in a defrocks all these Bishops for teaching heresy. These bishops can’t hid from being ignorant of Catholic teaching they are Bishops so if they are ignorant they deserve to be defrocked and by teaching heresy they deserve to be defrocked Only way to shut this down is the church slamming the door on it otherwise it’ll keep coming up
Hilarious. The german church, like every other catholic church, is destined for eternal damnation. 330,000 little boys in France were raped by 3,000 catholic pedophile priests, and it barely made the news, because people EXPECT that from catholics. Jesus said child rape was UNFORGIVABLE (Matt 18:6-14), and everyone who supported it will get eternal damnation. That means every catholic.
If only we had an individual, dare I say, a Successor to Peter, that could declare Church teaching on this issue and punish dissenters. Oh wait, we do; why hasn't he? Why has he taken concrete measures against the Traditional Latin Mass, but used only words that have gone unheeded on matters of Church teaching such as in this situation? It's extremely troubling.
This is the sentiment that many of feel, it becomes disheartening at times. Cardinal Roche just declared the TLM represents an "Old Theology". I was unaware that the Novus was ushering in a new theology, hopefully what is happening in Germany is not an off-shoot of this. Regardless, we need to continue to pray for the Church & the Holy Father.
I'm a protestant, and I just can't understand what is even the point. I've heard so many times from Trent when he debated for the necessity of Papacy that Church needs it to safeguard the orthodoxy but now, it seems to me that when Catholic Church breaks in half you're going through the exact same thing we protestants go. Your elders go in both directions leaving lay people scared, disoriented and confused and your leader is silent when he should be excluding the heretics immediately and declaring truth from the rooftops to preserve as much of the floch as he can. It seems to me it was all talk. There really isn't any gatekeeping in Vatican, just an abstract idea of it.
He has already made plenty statements against them and warning them. It hasn't been that long since the release of this document, so he may take action now that they have went through despite his warning. Also, as you will know, popes have the disciplinary authority to reform missals, whether it is prudentially right or wrong, and we shouldn't dissent from that. Ironically, traditionalists rebelling against the pope is why he is trying to limit the so called "Latin mass", which has been weaponised against reform. Let's be charitable to Francis and assume the best motive, as we must as Catholics, who himself said he has trouble with patience and may just have been trying to be patient with them previously to this statement.
@@mitromney Thank you! Indeed, Catholics mock Protestants relentlessly for their inner division on these topics, yet our own Pope will take action on these same issues. It's gravely scandalous, because one can reasonable interpret silence as consent - especially when the Pope is very vocal on other issues much less pressing. Talk is cheap, and actions speak louder than words, as they say. Thus, look who Pope Francis elevates: men who outright deny homosexual relationships to be sinful; men who are open to female ordination. Personnel is policy. Look who Pope Francis rebukes: not Catholic Biden and Pelosi, who use their faith to further abortion, but traditionalists who attend the Traditional Latin Mass.
Because it would be very disruptive to the Universal Church to excommunicate almost a whole episcopate. But probably the Church will have no other choice if they don't accept the Pope's final position at the Synod.
@@ghostapostle7225 exactly, people think that it's just easy to excommunicate them and replace them with new bishops. it's way more complicated than that
@@cherubintambwe6177 no one is saying it isn’t complicated. But this is disgusting and bad. Don’t replace them. As if there are actually faithful Catholics left in Europe. Grew up in the Netherlands and the local church was filled with unfaithful people, that clearly were just going there to socialize because they aged. Not even confessions were available. I didn’t have my first confession until I got married in the US at age 25! Didn’t even know it was a sacrament.
@@ghostapostle7225 But it's not disruptive to the Church to have 88 Successors of the Apostles actively blessing sin and leading countless people to Hell? Come on now.
Gen&er "assigned at birth" feels forced, agenda-driven and "compulsory or else you're a phobe." It certainly doesn't appear to be an expression based on reason. It connotes an eeevil doctor randomly deciding what each child will be, possibly laughing maniacally and twirling his moustache as he does so. Why not just "sex observed at birth" ? Or, just "sex"? This was the first weird expression I heard in popular culture, and it always bugged me as illogical and political. It was soon followed by "pregnant people", "chest feeders", and "people who menstruate". Anything but the offensive W - word!
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With respect to his conclusion, I agree that we MUST show compassion and dispense appropriate accomodations for those with unresolved intersex disorders. But I completely disagree with Trent: we are under NO reasonable compulsion to relax proper sex roles even the slightest. We can acknowledge that there are feminine men and masculine women, without telling feminine men that they are not required to fulfil the duties of a man, and without telling masculine women that they are not required to fulfil the duties of a woman. We must self-sacrificially serve each other in accordance with our complementary strengths, or our society will continue its degredation.
Do you think we mistranslated Jesus' words to Peter? After looking at Church history until today, maybe Jesus actually meant the gates of GERMANY will never prevail over the Church.
"...Should not be done with the Gostapo suggestion from the German Synod..." 61k views in 2 hours is impressive and 100 comments, well done. Good video. Thanks.
Dark days in Germany, and in many other places. Our God is merciful and patient, but this madness cannot be taught alongside the truth. Perhaps that is the goal, to divert as many faithful as possible to "rad-trad" groups to make the main body more moldable in their image. God alone knows their hearts, let's pray they repent before they destroy any more lives.
I think it would be interesting if you talked to Richard Ackerman about this. Or really about anything; you two and Scott Hahn are my three favorite 21st-century apologists
I don't necessarily believe in strict gender roles- I'm not terribly feminine myself, although I have been called to motherhood- but do you think that men and women should strive toward masculinity and femininity, respectively? Obviously some gender roles are indeed biologically determined- only women are going to gestate and breastfeed- but how much further than that do you think gender roles should go, if you believe in them at all?
I'm no fan of Lofton, but to give credit where it's due, Lofton did say that Pope Francis has been overly indulgent and patient with the German Bishops. That said, he seems to think that Pope Francis is going to do something about it soon, and the evidence doesn't seem to support this claim.
@@sneed3529 oh he will do something about it, he'll lightly condemn them for being too fast in their "progress" then issue a quiet decree agreeing with it and permitting it.
The Pope has said "We don't need another evangelical church in Germany" to the German bishops referring to a protestant group that has all these liberalizations. The Pope has approved Vatican documents starting the Germans are limited in changes to governance. Curial heads were hostile to these ideas at the german ad limina visit. You can hold that Francis hasn't done enough or his actions have been insufficient but you can't say he has done nothing.
Don't expect someone with trad derangement syndrome to call out the actual problems. He'll be to busy arguing why miscegenation is actually a really good thing.
German bishops/priests receive approx 80,000 pounds in salary from the German government. Like Judas they act on behalf of and preach the gospel of those who pay them.
The question remains how can the Church be pastoral and compassionate to these individuals in a way which is true to the Catholic faith and which perceived pastoral and compassionate by transgender individuals as well. After all reminding them of their biological sex usually merely increases their suffering.
Didn't Christ say something about teachers leading the little ones astray. Or something about being lukewarm. I am starting to get the feeling that people are afraid to share the gospel because if it is not received then they have condemned their interlocutor. This fear seems to lead people to believe it would be better not to share the gospel thereby preserving their interlocutor from being condemned. And alleviate their own personal guilt.
