German bishop: I will not ordain traditionalists as priests

FULDA, Germany, October 2, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – A German bishop has expressed dislike for “pre-conciliar types of clerics," stating that he will not ordain them.

Bishop Felix Genn of Münster made his views clear to journalists at a September 26 press conference in Fulda, Germany where he spoke about the upcoming Youth Synod in Rome.

“I can decidedly say I don’t care for pre-conciliar types of clerics, and also I will not consecrate them,” he said.

Genn, who has been implicated in the dissemination of LGBT literature to young people, will himself be taking part in the Youth Synod, which begins tomorrow.

His remarks appeared to be a response to Paul Metzlaff, a representative from the German bishops’ Youth Ministry Office, who had remarked on the love of some young Catholics for more traditional forms of worship and prayer.

According to Die Tagespost, Metzlaff said that these “traditional-postmodern” young Catholics treasure traditional forms of piety and classical forms of prayer. He observed that the strongest criticism of the Youth Synod’s working document had come from young people in the United States, and that these young Catholics had declared that the Extraordinary (or traditional) Form of the Mass had not been respected to their satisfaction.

“In Germany we didn't even have it on our radar that young people would subscribe also to these Forms,” Metzlaff said.

Austrian-American Benedict Waldstein, 30, told LifeSiteNews that he was curious about Metzlaff’s remarks.

“It would be really interesting to hear what Metzlaff had to say because in what is quoted he talks about American youth, but he may well have found out that there are also such people in Germany that hadn’t been on his radar, though clearly they had been on the bishop’s.”

Jutta Maria Popp, who resides in the neighboring diocese of Essen, took issue with the Bishop of Münster’s attitude.

“Genn is par for the course for official German Catholicism,” she told LifeSiteNews. “They are deeply opposed to anything really Catholic. Their church was founded in 1965.”

“They try and stop the [traditional] Latin Mass as much as they can, so what Genn says is typical and honest,” she continued. “Most bishops won't even allow priests to say the Traditional Latin Mass, or hire the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter (FSSP) priests, although the FSSP seminary is full to bursting, and the diocesan seminaries are empty.”
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Is this a secret Russian plot to trick all western Christians into wanting to become Orthodox?
Because it's working.

Dumb old v2 farts are realizing that everything they fought for is despised by the next generation and will be reversed, their architecture sucks, their politics suck, they self aggrandizing sucks and they know it

I hope so but I think this is the beginning of the antichrist's church.

Well, we'll see. They have to be in control for long while for that to fully occur. They are all old fogies, they are going wherever they are going sooner rather than later.

This is nothing new and infact has gotten much better in the past decade or two

Uh what? Postmodernism is the polar opposite of traditionalism. Traditionalism is a very rigid philosophy with clear delineations between right and wrong with a healthy dose of respect given to the opinions of our ancestors and their input on what facilitates a healthy life and society. Postmodernism is the rejection of all authority and the acceptance of pure relativism where there are no objective truths and everything is reduced down to a fuzzy mess where right and wrong are simply a matter of how people feel.

The biggest youth organisation in my archdiocese for high schoolers is a charismatic group. The vast majority stop participating when Catholicism is no longer games with friends and singing songs. The second largest is a traditional group mainly of young adults. 18-25 year olds across the whole city come to the one parish that holds the traditional mass. Also the traditionalists are run by an oratory outside the jurisdiction of the archbishop, so there's nothing he can do to cuck us. In that one oratory parish they've got more vocations than the whole archdiocese .

It doesn't really take a genius to put 2 and 2 together and figure out whats happening.
the future belongs to us, filthy dumb concilliar scum

Why are germans so anti-God? Is it genetic?

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I think you misinterpret; most of mankind is anti-God, to one degree or another. And Genn is hardly the only bishop/archbishop like this; why, there was recently an Australian archbishop who told the anti-Communist clergy in China (regarding the Vatican-PRC deal we've talked about previously) to basically suck it up and shut up.