St. Gallen Mafia’s long war to change priesthood will have decisive moment at Amazon Synod
…."The shortage of priests is only an obvious pretext to abolish practically (not theoretically) celibacy in the Latin Church. This has been the aim since Luther." —Bishop Athanasius Schneider
….Forty-four years before he successfully led the crusade to elect Pope Francis, then-Fr. Cormac Murphy-O’Connor—a future member of the St. Gallen mafia—attended a 1969 synod under Pope Paul VI. ……..“perhaps the ordination of married men should be considered.”
….their future mafia comrades Walter Kasper and Karl Lehmann signed a 1970 document demanding a “serious investigation” of the law of celibacy and the possibility of ordaining married men.
….shortly before the 2013 conclave, Murphy-O’Connor announced that the issue “very well might come up,” ….. Then, a year after he successfully led the effort to elect Pope Francis, Murphy-O’Connor declared that he’d ask Rome “to ordain suitable married men” ……Cardinal Kasper, meanwhile, proclaimed that the new pope favored the proposal.
