Cardinal Raymond Burke criticized the German Synodal Way and the concept of “synodality,” which he said is a “placeholder” for “all kinds of ideologies” during an interview with Pints with Aquinas host Matt Fradd.
“Today we have this terrible situation in Germany with this so-called Synodal Way and in general this whole notion of ‘synodality,’” Cardinal Burke said. “I’ve spoken about this on many occasions that no one can define what synodality is, it isn’t a term that ever existed in the history of the Church, but it seems to be a kind of placeholder in which all kinds of ideologies can enter in and [lead] to the division of the Church.”
“We see this happening in Germany even with regard to the nature of the Church itself and then with regard to questions of morality and doctrine,” the American cardinal told Fradd.
He stressed that the Church today needs a period similar to the Middle Ages, with an “intense, deep doctrinal and liturgical and moral life.”