The EWTN News portal reports that the bylaws for the so-called “German Synodal Conference” — a permanent body designed to implement the radical German Synodal Way — remain under review by the Roman dicasteries of the conciliar sect nearly six months after submission. The president of the German “Bishops’ Conference,” “Bishop” Heiner Wilmer of Münster, admits the first meeting scheduled for November 2026 is unlikely, as the statutes are “being passed from one dicastery to the next.” The contentious core: the bylaws provide for joint deliberation and decision-making by “diocesan bishops and non-bishops” on “important issues of Church life of supra-diocesan significance.” Three “bishops” — Woelki, Oster, Voderholzer — have nominally withdrawn from the Synodal Way, yet the conciliar “pope” Leo XIV, like his predecessor Francis, has never formally demanded the process’s termination. Wilmer declares: “For me, the Church is synodal… We can only move forward if we journey together… internationally, ecumenically, and with our Jewish and Muslim brothers and sisters.” This article exposes not a bureaucratic delay, but the consummation of the conciliar revolution: the replacement of the divine, hierarchical Constitution of the Church with a Masonic-parliamentary counter-church.
The Synodal Conference: A Masonic Parliament Usurping the Divine Monarchy of Christ
The very phrase “synodal decision-making processes” — enshrined in the bylaws as the modus operandi of this “Synodal Conference” — is a coup d’état against the divina constitutio Ecclesiae (divine constitution of the Church). Our Lord Jesus Christ established His Church as a perfecta societas (perfect society), monarchical and hierarchical, with the Roman Pontiff as supreme head and bishops as successors of the Apostles, non ex consensu fidelium, sed ex vocatione divina (not from the consensus of the faithful, but from divine vocation). Pius XI, in Quas Primas, teaches that “Christ received from the Father unlimited right over all that is created, so that all is subject to His will” and that “His reign encompasses also all non-Christians, so that most truly the entire human race is subject to the authority of Jesus Christ.” The German “Synodal Conference” — with its lay veto over episcopal authority — is a de facto declaration that the Church is a human association governed by democratic consensus, a res publica christiana without Christ the King.
The Syllabus of Errors (Pius IX, 1864) condemns as error: “The Church is not a true and perfect society, entirely free… but it appertains to the civil power to define what are the rights of the Church” (Error 19). Today, the “civil power” is the synodal assembly; the “laity” are the new magistrates. The bylaws’ provision that the Conference “deliberates and makes decisions… on important issues of Church life of supra-diocesan significance” is a direct usurpation of the potestas iurisdictionis (power of jurisdiction) which belongs exclusively to the hierarchy by divine right. As Pius XII teaches in Mystici Corporis: “The Church is not a human society… but a supernatural society… whose head is Christ, whose law is the Gospel, whose end is eternal salvation.” The Synodal Conference reduces this supernatural society to a Verein (association) governed by Robert’s Rules of Order.
The Conciliar “Pope” as Accomplice: Qui tacet consentire videtur
The article notes with telling understatement: “Despite all the criticism of the Synodal Way, the Vatican under Pope Francis — and now under Pope Leo XIV — has never formally demanded that the process… be terminated.” This silence is not administrative inertia; it is formaliter heretical complicity. A true Roman Pontiff, as Vicar of Christ and Supreme Teacher, has the munus (office) to confirmare fratres suos (confirm his brethren) and to pascere oves (feed the sheep) — which includes defending the deposit of faith against wolves intus (within). The “pope” Leo XIV (Robert Prevost), like the entire line of usurpers since John XXIII, is a manifest heretic who has ipso facto lost all jurisdiction, 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, lib. 2, cap. 30).
The “Defense of Sedevacantism” file demonstrates that Canon 188.4 of the 1917 Code declares an office vacant ipso facto “if the cleric… publicly defects from the Catholic faith.” The Synodal Way’s resolutions — blessing same-sex unions, demanding women’s “ordination,” denying priestly celibacy, relativizing doctrine — constitute publica defection a fide (public defection from the faith). The conciliar “pope” who refuses to condemn them, who instead “accompanies” them, is ipso facto no pope at all. His “dicasteries” reviewing the bylaws are not organs of the Holy See but departments of a paramasonic structure managing the controlled demolition of Catholic Germany.
The “Withdrawn” Bishops: Schism Within Schism, Not Resistance
The article highlights three “bishops” — Woelki, Oster, Voderholzer — who “withdrew from the Synodal Way some time ago, after the relevant Vatican authorities had issued several clear warnings.” This is presented as heroic resistance. It is nothing of the sort. These men remain in communion with the antipope, recognize his jurisdiction, accept the New Mass, the New Code of Canon Law, the New Rites of Ordination, and the entire conciliar magisterium. Their “withdrawal” is a tactical maneuver to preserve a veneer of orthodoxy while remaining inside the abomination of desolation. As the Syllabus condemns: “National churches, withdrawn from the authority of the Roman pontiff and altogether separated, can be established” (Error 37) — but these men do not separate; they negotiate. “Bishop” Oster’s statement — “If we do this in agreement with the universal Church, then I will participate” — reveals the truth: he seeks legitimation from the false hierarchy, not obedience to the true Church. They are those pretending to be traditional Catholics who, in the words of Abp. Lefebvre (himself a compromiser), “give us the old Mass, that is enough for us” — a capitulation to the conciliar principle that the liturgy is a disciplinary matter, not the lex orandi, lex credendi of the immutable faith.
Wilmer’s Creed: Synodality as the New Gospel, Religious Indifferentism as the New Charity
“Bishop” Wilmer’s interview is a manifesto of the Church of the New Advent. “For me, the Church is synodal. I associate synodality with deep respect and great appreciation.” Here synodalitas replaces hierarchia; the sensus fidelium replaces the magisterium; the “journey together” replaces the sequela Christi. This is the heresy of evolutionism condemned by St. Pius X in Lamentabili sane exitu: “Christ did not proclaim any specific, all-encompassing doctrine suitable for all times and peoples, but rather initiated a certain religious movement, applied or applicable to different times and places” (Proposition 59). Wilmer’s “synodality” is precisely this: a permanent revolution of doctrine by majority vote.
Worse: “We can only move forward if we journey together… internationally, ecumenically, and with our Jewish and Muslim brothers and sisters.” This is the condemned indifferentism of the Syllabus: “Man may, in the observance of any religion whatever, find the way of eternal salvation” (Error 16); “Protestantism is nothing more than another form of the same true Christian religion” (Error 18). Wilmer places the synagoga Satanae (synagogue of Satan, Apoc. 2:9) and the followers of the false prophet on equal footing with the Ecclesia Christi. Pius XI in Quas Primas declares: “There is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved” (Acts 4:12). Wilmer’s “journey” is a procession to the abyss.
The “Miracle” of the Conciliar Sect: Error Has Become Law
The article reveals the procedural farce: “The Vatican… has never formally demanded that the process… be terminated, nor has it demanded that bodies be established only in ways that are unproblematic under canon law and that already exist at all levels in Germany.” The 1983 Code (itself a product of the conciliar revolution) still nominally reserves decision-making to the bishop (can. 127, can. 536). Yet the “Vatican” tolerates a structure that ex lege abolishes episcopal monopoly on governance. This is the strategia tensionis (strategy of tension) of the Masonic operation described in the “False Fatima Apparitions” file: “Stage 3 (1958-2000): Takeover of the narrative by modernists, concealment of the Third Secret, ecumenical reinterpretation.” Today, Stage 4: institutionalization of apostasy via “synodal” bodies. The “dicasteries” passing the file “from one to the next” are not examining orthodoxy; they are calibrating the speed of collapse to avoid schism that would expose the fraud.
The Theological Bankruptcy: No Supernatural Reference, Only Sociological Management
Read the article again. There is not a single mention of: the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, the Sacraments, the state of grace, the Four Last Things, the conversion of sinners, the rights of Christ the King, the Immaculate Heart of Mary, the intercession of the Saints, the reality of hell, the necessity of the Catholic Church for salvation (extra Ecclesiam nulla salus). The entire discourse is horizontal: “bodies,” “bylaws,” “dicasteries,” “reciprocity,” “face-saving,” “process,” “journey.” This is the cult of man condemned by Pius XI: “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 Synodal Conference is the parliament of the Antichrist, where the only dogma is dialogue, the only sin is exclusion, and the only salvation is consensus.
Conclusion: The Gates of Hell Shall Not Prevail — Against This Counter-Church
The German “Synodal Conference” is not a crisis within the Church; it is the manifestation of the counter-church that has occupied the visible structures since 1958. The “bishops,” the “pope,” the “dicasteries” are personae fictae (fictitious persons) in the juridical sense: they hold offices they have ipso facto vacated by manifest heresy. The true Church of Christ — una, sancta, catholica, apostolica — subsists in the remanentes (those remaining) who hold the integral faith, the traditional Mass, the unchanging doctrine, and the sedevacantist position that the See of Peter is vacant. The “Synodal Conference” will meet or not meet; its “decisions” will be “approved” or “delayed.” It matters not. “The kingdom of Christ… shall not be corrupted” (Dan. 7:14, cited in Quas Primas). The abomination of desolation (Matt. 24:15) stands in the holy place. Let him who reads understand: non praevalebunt (they shall not prevail).
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Vatican still hasn’t approved Germany’s new synodal body, bishop says (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 25.08.2026