Thursday, March 14, 2019

Bishop Athanasius Schneider: Brazilians Do Not Want Married Clergy

Bishop: This is an idea of ​​'white priests' like Bishop Kräutler and not the Brazilian

Kazakhstan (kath.net) Catholics in Brazil do not want married priests. This is an idea of ​​"white priests, not the natives." This was emphasized by Bishop Athanasius Schneider in an interview with "LifeSiteNews." Schneider explained that he himself had been working in Brazil for seven years and that he knew the people very well there.
Married priests are an idea of ​​priests who do not lead a "deep apostolic and self-sacrificing life." According to Schneider, Brazilians are "very pious and simple people. They would never get the idea of ​​married priests.” Two prominent Catholic "white priests" who want to push married priests there are, according to Schneider, the Austrian bishops Erwin Kräutler and Fritz Lobinger. Both are now emeritus, but Kräutler was to be found in the Preparatory Committee for the Amazon Synde.

According to Schneider, the shortage of priests is recognizably only an "excuse to practically (not theoretically) abolish celibacy in the Latin Church.” This was the goal since Luther. For the enemies of the Church and the sects, the first step is always to abolish celibacy. Priestly celibacy is the last stronghold that would be abolished in the Church. The sacramental life is only the pretext for it.

The auxiliary bishop explained:  "The shortage of priests in the Amazon is an example to me of the opposite: Perhaps the priests lack a deeply committed and devoted life in the spirit of Jesus, the apostles and the saints. They are therefore looking for human replacement. Indigenous married clerics will not lead to deepening and growth in the Amazonian Church. Certainly the advent of married clerics in the indigenous culture of the Amazon and in other parts of the world of the Latin rite will cause other problems.”

The German-born Schneider is an Auxiliary Bishop in the Archdiocese of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Astana, Kazakhstan.

Trans: Tancred vekron99@hotmail.com
AMDG

7 comments:

M. Prodigal said...

The corrupt modernist destroyed currently in power in the Church could care less what the people want. They have an agenda and the power to impose it..

Tancred said...

These allegedly popularist organizations like Call to Action are made up of professional activists and wealthy, interested parties with precisely that agenda. These elitists claim they represent popular opinion, but as you say, they don’t care about that any more than they care about the salvation of souls.

Peter W said...

Jesus was the founder of A Call to Action. It's known as Christianity.

Tancred said...

The anti-Christ

Catholic Mission said...

March 15, 2019
The Catholic Church has changed for Bishop Athanasius Schneider
https://eucharistandmission.blogspot.com/2019/03/the-catholic-church-has-changed-for.html

From Fr. Khouri said...

Is the bishop an expert on the Church in Brazil? Maybe instead of running
all over the world he should remain in his diocese to help govern it as was his charge at his Ordination to the Episcopate.

I agree that the bishop says many good things. But he also puts his opinion out as the deposit of the Faith.

Tancred said...

Ikr, Saint Paul was a huge busybody.