Catholic bishop: The Church in Germany has betrayed what is Christian
Catholic Bishop Athanasius Schneider. Photo: FSSPX News
RCC Bishop Athanasius Schneider, in an interview with the German newspaper Junge Freiheit, harshly criticized the leadership of the Catholic Church in Germany. He accused German hierarchs of “cowardly complicity” with left-wing ideology and of betraying the foundations of the Christian faith.
Schneider said the Church in Germany has fully adapted itself to the “spirit of the age” and the agenda of the ruling parties. In his view, this is a betrayal of what is truly Christian and Catholic. The bishop expressed confidence that one day people will read with shame the names of the bishops who presided over all this as cowardly accomplices.
The bishop called on Europeans to create a new movement to defend traditional values: family, reason, and natural law. He stressed that modern ideology operates as a “refined totalitarianism” and seeks to disorient people. He compared the methods of excluding dissenters in Europe to the practices of the Soviet dictatorship, from which his parents suffered.
Schneider paid particular attention to migration, calling the mass resettlement of Muslims into Europe a “clearly planned political action.” According to him, this process is aimed at eroding Europe’s Christian identity through a mass influx of Muslims. He urged Christians not to lose hope and to unite in order to save civilization.
Earlier, the UOJ reported that the Vatican hierarch had warned of the rise of Christianophobia in the West.
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