German Prelate’s Half-Measures Expose Synodal Apostasy
The website EWTN News (January 27, 2026) reports that Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki of Cologne declared the German Synodal Way “concluded” for himself while refusing to attend its sixth assembly. The article details Woelki’s skepticism toward establishing a permanent synodal conference and his insistence on answering to “ordination vows” and unity with “Pope Leo.” Archbishop Georg Gänswein is quoted denouncing the Synodal Way as leading “away from the faith.” Both prelates criticize the process while paradoxically maintaining communion with the modernist structures that birthed this heresy.