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November 4, 2019 (LifeSiteNews)
– Bishop Athanasius Schneider, the auxiliary bishop of Astana,
Kazakhstan, has granted LifeSiteNews a lengthy video interview about the
Amazon Synod and the state of the Catholic Church.
Bishop
Schneider is one of the most outspoken defenders of Catholic orthodoxy
in the world. It was Bishop Schneider who, along with Cardinal Raymond
Burke and other prelates, issued in June 2019 the “Declaration of Truths”
to correct the rampant “doctrinal confusion” in the Church. Bishop
Schneider has been at the forefront of defending the Catholic faith
amidst the accelerating crisis in the Church during which bishops,
cardinals, and even the Pope have either openly flouted or at least
muddied Catholic teaching on a host of moral issues.
In
his interview with LifeSiteNews, recorded on October 24 – the feast day
of St. Raphael the Archangel – Bishop Schneider explained how the
Amazon Synod was being used as a “tool” to change the Church and create
“a new kind of religion, even.”
He reacted to Bishop Erwin Kräutler’s claim
that indigenous peoples of the Amazon “don’t understand celibacy” –
“without [a] doubt, this is racism,” said Bishop Schneider – and
commented on attempts to undermine the practice of priestly celibacy and
introduce female “deacons.”
In this wide-ranging interview, Bishop Schneider also spoke about the liturgy, the significance of the cassock, and life as a Catholic child in the Soviet Union.
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