Dr. Eowyn:
The author of this condemnation of the final “relatio” from the recently-concluded Synod of Catholic Bishops on the family, Athanasius Schneider, 54, is the Auxiliary Bishop of the archdiocese of Saint Mary in Astana, Kazakhstan.
Schneider’s parents were ethnic Germans from Ukraine who were sent by Stalin to gulags in the Ural Mountains after the Second World War. They traveled to Kirghiz in the former Soviet Union after being released from the camps, where Schneider was born. In 1973, at age 12, Schneider made his first Holy Communion by the hand of priest and martyr Bl. Oleksa Zaryckyj. Shortly after, the Schneider family left for Germany.
Bishop Schneider encourages Catholics who truly believe they are receiving Christ in the Blessed Sacrament should kneel and receive Communion on their tongues.
At a theological conference in Rome in December 2010, Bishop Schneider proposed the need for “a new Syllabus” (recalling the 1864 Syllabus of Errors), in which papal teaching authority would correct erroneous interpretations of the documents of the Second Vatican Council.
Originally posted on From Rome:
A back door to a neo-Mosaic practicein the Final Report of the Synod
By H. E. Bishop Athanasius Schneider
Bishop Athanasius Schneider
The XIV General Assembly of the Synod of the Bishops (October 4 – 25, 2015), which was dedicated to the theme of “The Vocation and Mission of the Family in the Church and Contemporary World”, issued a Final Report with some pastoral proposals submitted to the discernment of the Pope. The document itself is only of an advisory nature and does not possess a formal magisterial value.
Yet during the Synod, there appeared those real new disciples of Moses and the new Pharisees, who in the numbers 84-86 of the Final Report opened a back door or looming time bombs for the admittance of divorced and remarried to Holy Communion. At the same time those bishops who intrepidly defended “the Church’s own fidelity to Christ…
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