Sisters and Brothers in Christ. At the recent opening of the Continental Synodal Assembly for Europe Cardinal Mario Grech said that ”giving the People of God an active participation in the life of the Church in nothing detracts from ( its ) hierarchical ministry”

If this is true then the Synod on synodality will tragically fail . Mother Church needs radical systemic change to address an historical hierarchy that facilitated a systemic culture of world wide clerical sexual abuse the scale of which should have consigned the Catholic Church to the darkest pages of history. The People of God are crying out for the hierarchy to be dismantled and for clerics to become what Jesus ordained them to be , servants of the people and not the powerful overlords that they have become.

Bishop Franz-Josef Overbeck of Essen, Germany once said :

“Sexual abuse has only one origin, [and it is] in the wrong use of power in our church,”

That power has been abused for too long. Giving the People of God an active participation in the life of the Church means nothing unless it results in the detraction from its current hierarchy. The synod on synodality means nothing unless it results in the dismantling of its corrupt privileged elitist clericalism.

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1 Corinthians 13: 1-7