{"id":2112,"date":"2015-11-30T22:38:59","date_gmt":"2015-11-30T22:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=2112"},"modified":"2025-09-28T05:07:43","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T05:07:43","slug":"pope-francis-reads-riot-act-to-german-bishops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=2112","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis reads riot act to German Bishops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"http:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e201bb08978c4a970d-pi\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Pope to Germans\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d834525a2f69e201bb08978c4a970d img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e201bb08978c4a970d-120wi\" style=\"width: 120px;\" title=\"Pope to Germans\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Blunt and to the point &#8211; at their ad limina (every five year visit) to the Vatican.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">&quot;Pulling no punches, Pope Francis laid out statistic after statistic before a group of German bishops and wondered aloud why the Church in Germany is in freefall.&quot;<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/big-government\/2015\/11\/20\/pope-francis-calls-german-bishops-account-eroded-faith\/\" target=\"_self\" title=\"\">It is time, he said, \u201cfor bishops to diligently carry out their mission as teachers of the faith \u2013 the faith that is preached and lived in communion with the universal Church \u2013 in the manifold areas of their pastoral ministry.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The Pope\u2019s words came barely a month after the Vatican synod of bishops on marriage and the family. As a group, the German clerics have been the&#0160;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholicworldreport.com\/Blog\/2913\/german_bishops_push_to_change_guidelines_for_divorced_and_remarried_catholics.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">most aggressive<\/a>&#0160;and most united group in the Church in pushing for a relaxation of sacramental discipline. Despite opposition from Rome, the German bishops seem determined to go it alone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blunt and to the point &#8211; at their ad limina (every five year visit) to the Vatican. &quot;Pulling no punches, Pope Francis laid out statistic after statistic before a group of German bishops and wondered aloud why the Church in Germany is in freefall.&quot; It is time, he said, \u201cfor bishops to diligently carry out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2112"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8107,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2112\/revisions\/8107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}