Beyond Saving: On the Loss of Substance within the Church

Hubert Windisch

[Blog Admin. note: This article pertains to the Papal Church in Germany, but the symptoms of their contagion clearly parallel what has infected the Orthodox Church today.]

 

 

Inconsistency exists when something is inherently no longer right, i.e., when the outside and the inside no longer match, when words and actions diverge, and when claims and reality contradict one another. This can be the case with individual persons, groups or political parties, major organizations such as the churches, or it can affect an entire commonwealth—that is, a state.

Let us look, for example, at the designation “RC” [Roman Catholic] of the Church. This designation claims an identity that is often no longer present in reality. This is illustrated by just three examples:

1) In the Diocese of Hamburg, parents are up in arms because their children are now expected to consume non-Christian material (LGBT, etc.) in sex education classes at Catholic schools. They turn to Rome. Rome admonishes the diocesan school authority in a response dated July 6, 2026, to the critical parent network, pointing to Catholic doctrine and the Christian image of man as found in the 2019 guidelines “Male and Female He Created Them.” The new sex education curriculum is mandated anyway. Rome remains silent. Contempt for parents, abuse of children!

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2) In the Diocese of Mainz, the bishop notes the new letter from the Roman Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments dated June 17, 2026, banning lay preaching during the celebration of the Eucharist, and even considers it correct, but chooses not to intervene against the now widespread practice of lay preaching. Misplaced tolerance as a pastoral method.

3) The cardinal of Munich issues a guide for the liturgical blessing of irregular, and thus also homosexual, relationships, even though not even the sophisticated Roman document Fiducia Supplicans permits this in this explicit manner. Rome remains silent and tolerates it. Anything goes.

The loss of substance within the Church due to inconsistency is enormous. We can watch the erosion of the “institution of grace” (Michael Ebertz) in fast motion. “RC” is rapidly becoming “DC,” i.e., differently Catholic, as the former chairman of the German Bishops’ Conference, Georg Bätzing, once boasted with regard to the Synodal Path. However, this very quickly turns into an “NC,” a no-longer-Catholic. This development hurts all the men who want to be or become priests in an honestly Catholic way; the faithful who want to experience a dignified celebration of the Eucharist with an authentic sermon on Sunday and who try to shape their daily lives through prayer and the sacramental life. For all of them, the Church is often no longer a home, but an externally still-functioning hollow space in which they freeze and starve spiritually.

The background and driving force for this loss of substance is, to put it metaphorically, a Church that has been moved from solid rock onto quicksand, primarily due to the so-called Bergoglian magisterium with its decisions prone to heresy and indeed apostasy (e.g., Abu Dhabi, Pachamama, Singapore, Amoris laetitia, Fiducia supplicans, among others, cf. Gavin Ashenden, The Quicksand Under the Cathedral). Everything is now called a (pastoral) process; truth is synodal, the journey is the destination. But if the journey is the destination, the journey no longer has a destination. That is the inconsistency of relativism. In reality, the so-called Synodal Path in the Church of Germany is nothing other than an attempt to institutionalize this inconsistency. And Rome is rushing to keep up on a global church scale

From a socio-religious perspective, a Church presenting herself in this manner is beyond saving. This is because the internal events described will create a substantial negative pressure inside the structure of the Church. At a certain point it will rupture the outer shell, and the system will implode. The Church herself, however, will not perish. In oases and on islands of contemporary history, and increasingly in catacombs, a (holy!) remnant of the faithful will gather, celebrating worship reverently with a few priests—whether in the Vetus or the Novus Ordo—having the Word and Sacrament as nourishment for their lives, and hearing anew the word of the Crucified and Risen One: “Be sure of this: I am with you always, even to the end of the world” (Mt 28:20).

 

 

Source: https://www.lifesitenews.com/blogs/theologian-laments-how-anything-goes-in-the-church-now/