The National Catholic Register (NCR) portal reports that the “Bishop” of Mainz, Peter Kohlgraf, chairman of the pastoral commission of the German Bishops’ Conference, has publicly declared the Vatican’s prohibition on lay preaching at the Novus Ordo service “not entirely consistent.” While paying lip service to the ban issued by the Dicastery for Divine Worship under “Cardinal” Arthur Roche, Kohlgraf explicitly refuses to sanction parishes in his diocese where laymen — and laywomen — have usurped the homily. He admits the practice is “customary” and vows non-intervention, effectively legitimizing a liturgical abuse that strikes at the very nature of the priesthood. This episode lays bare the total collapse of authority in the conciliar sect: a “bishop” openly contradicts Rome, Rome issues contradictory directives, and the faithful are left in a wasteland of liturgical anarchy where the only law is the whim of the modernist functionary.
The Illegitimacy of the Conciliar Hierarchy: No Authority to Bind or Loose
The entire spectacle presupposes a legitimacy that does not exist. The “Vatican” issuing the ban, the “Cardinal” Roche enforcing it, and the “Bishop” Kohlgraf defying it are all functionaries of the Church of the New Advent, the conciliar sect erected upon the ruins of the Second Vatican Council. They possess no jurisdiction, no sacramental validity, and no mission from Christ. As St. Robert Bellarmine teaches, “a Pope who is a manifest heretic, by that very fact ceases to be Pope and head, just as he ceases to be a Christian and member of the body of the Church” (De Romano Pontifice). The line of usurpers beginning with John XXIII has publicly professed the heresies of religious liberty, ecumenism, and collegiality — condemned by the Syllabus of Pius IX and the encyclicals of St. Pius X. Therefore, ipso facto, they hold no office. Kohlgraf is not a bishop; he is a layman in episcopal vestments, ordained in the invalid Pauline rite of 1968 by the freemason Liénart, exercising a pretended authority over a Protestantized assembly. His “defiance” is not a conflict of jurisdiction but a squabble between two revolutionary factions within the abomination of desolation occupying the Vatican.
Lay Preaching at the ‘Mass’: A Sacrilegious Usurpation of the Prophetic Office
The core of the controversy is the admission that in the Diocese of Mainz, “it has become established that this happens from time to time nonetheless” — that laypeople, including women employed as “personnel officers,” ascend the ambo during the Novus Ordo service to deliver the homily. This is not a mere “liturgical violation”; it is a blasphemous intrusion into the munus docendi, the teaching office reserved exclusively to the ordained priesthood by divine institution. The Council of Trent anathematizes those who say “that the bishops… have not the power of defining dogmatically that the religion of the Catholic Church is the only true religion” (Syllabus, Error 21), but more fundamentally, the priest acts in persona Christi Capitis. A layman — worse, a woman — preaching at the Holy Sacrifice is a sacrilege crying to heaven, a visible sign that the Novus Ordo is not the Mass of the Catholic Church but a cena, a Protestant communion service where the “presider” is merely a facilitator and the “assembly” the true subject of liturgy. Kohlgraf’s refusal to sanction — “I will not intervene disciplinarily or sanction it under canon law” — makes him an accomplice to this profanation. He chooses the lex orandi of the revolution over the lex credendi of the Church.
The ‘Synodal Way’: Modernist Subversion of the Divine Constitution
The request for lay preaching originated from the “Synodal Way”, the German engine of the conciliar revolution. This pseudo-synod is the embodiment of the condemned proposition of Lamentabili Sane Exitu: “The Church listening cooperates in such a way with the Church teaching in defining truths of faith, that the Church teaching should only approve the common opinions of the Church listening” (Prop. 6). It inverts the hierarchical constitution established by Christ: “He gave some as apostles, others as prophets, others as evangelists, others as pastors and teachers” (Eph 4:11). The laity have no mandate to preach the homily at Mass; their role is to hear the Word, to assent with obsequium fidei, and to live it in the world. The “Synodal Way” seeks to democratize grace, to make the priesthood a “function” delegated by the community — the very essence of the Lutheran heresy condemned at Trent. That the “Vatican” rejected this specific request while having authored the chaos through Lumen Gentium and the 1983 Code is the height of hypocrisy. The rot proceeds from the head.
False Obedience and the Cult of ‘Denunciation’: Inverting the Duty of the Faithful
Kohlgraf reveals the totalitarian mindset of the conciliar sect when he complains that the ban “is now encouraging denunciation” because “people who report liturgical violations to the bishop immediately and write directly to me… demand that I must intervene. Some even write to the nuncio or directly to Rome.” He treats the faithful’s duty to defend the liturgy as an annoyance, a “denunciation” (Delation). In the true Church, Canon 188.4 of the 1917 Code teaches that an office becomes vacant ipso facto by “public defection from the Catholic faith” — and the faithful have the right, indeed the duty, to resist a pastor who destroys the sacrifice. St. Pius X in Pascendi Dominici Gregis commands vigilance against Modernists who “insinuate themselves into the very veins of the Church”. Kohlgraf calls this vigilance “denunciation”; the Church calls it defensio fidei. His “friendly and unruffled” dismissal — “I take note of it and pass it on, usually to the respective pastor” — is the bureaucratic language of the paramasonic structure, protecting its own while the souls of the faithful are fed stones for bread.
The Novus Ordo ‘Mass’: The Stage for Liturgical Anarchy
The entire dispute takes place within the Novus Ordo Missae, the “table of assembly” fabricated by Bugnini and his freemasonic consultants to replace the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary. In this fabricated rite, the “homily” is not an integral part of the sacrifice but a didactic insertion, movable, optional, and now, apparently, delegable. The 1969 Institutio Generalis already blurred the distinction between priest and people; the 1983 Code (Can. 767) permits lay preaching “in certain circumstances” — a novelty unknown to the 1917 Code and to Tradition. Kohlgraf’s “liturgical commission” compiling “the many possibilities of the preaching ministry” for laypeople is the logical fruit of a rite that has no sacerdos, no victima, no altare. The “Vatican” ban is a desperate rear-guard action by a revolutionary government trying to slow the very chaos it unleashed. But you cannot put the genie back into the bottle of heresy. The Novus Ordo is the genie.
Christ the King Rejected: The Social Reign Denied in Word and Deed
Pius XI in Quas Primas declared: “When God and Jesus Christ… were removed from laws and states and when authority was derived not from God but from men, the foundations of that authority were destroyed”. The conciliar sect, in its “Synodal Way” and its lay-preaching parishes, has enthroned man as the measure of liturgy. The “bishop” who refuses to govern, the “Vatican” that issues contradictory decrees, the “laity” who seize the ambo — all proclaim the same antichristian principle: Non serviam. The true Church, the Ecclesia militans persevering in the catacombs of Tradition, knows that Pax Christi in Regno Christi. There is no peace in the conciliar sect, only the perpetual revolution of the father of lies. Kohlgraf’s Mainz is a microcosm of the neo-church: a Protestantized shell, canonically vacant, sacramentally empty, spiritually dead.
Conclusion: The Vacant See and the Duty of Separation
This report from the NCR portal is not news of a “dispute within the Church”; it is documentary evidence of the Great Apostasy foretold by St. Paul (2 Thess 2:3). The “Bishop” Kohlgraf is a manifest heretic who by that fact has no office (Bellarmine). The “Vatican” he defies is the seat of the antichrist. The faithful who “denounce” him are the only Catholics in the narrative. The only canonical, theological, and spiritual response for a Catholic today is total separation from the conciliar sect — its “Masses,” its “bishops,” its “canon law,” its “synods” — and adherence to the Tradition of the Fathers, the Mass of All Time, and the bishops and priests who maintain valid orders and the integral faith without compromise. Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus. The conciliar sect is not the Church; it is her counterfeit. Flee it.
Source:
German Bishop: Vatican Case Against Lay Preaching ‘Not Entirely Consistent’ (ncregister.com)
Date: 13.08.2026