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7th December 2022

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So some context on German bishops breaking with the Vatican to create validating rituals for same-sex unions:

  • In recent history Germany is mixed Catholic-Protestant, both identities more a matter of regional heritage than theology
  • The Protestantism is of the North/Baltic Sea type that remained a matter of historic identity largely by shifting with the population over the 20th Century
  • German Catholics therefore have direct experience of Christianity being made compatible with post-heteronormative norms
  • The Catholic Church’s failure to keep pace is therefore understood as an unforced error embarrassing German Catholics before their Protestant compatriots
  • Tension with the Vatican is not understood as undermining the bishops’ authority; Catholic Germans never considered themselves Catholic by virtue of being aligned with the Pope, but by virtue of being Bavarian, etc.

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    Also reminder that between Lutheranism, the Old Catholic Church (formed in response to Vatican I!), and investiture...