Pope Francis and Germany.

A lot of people don't understand that Germany, probably more than any other conference of

Catholic bishops, has driven the agenda for policy and even theological drift since 1940s,

1950s and especially to Dan explain why that is the case.

It's a little formula right here.

Money, of which the German Church has a lot, we're going to go into what that looks like.

Money drives influence and influence drives theological drift.

And we're seeing this in this week right now in which the German bishops and clergy are

flaunting Catholic moral teaching theology.

Even Pope Francis himself and moving forward with blessings of same sex couple, not Rita,

a little article kind of gives you a little snapshot of what's going on in Germany.

Right now we're going to look at the demographics of the Catholic Church in Germany.

And then I'm going to end today talking about how Pope Francis may or could or counter

what's going on in Germany, but the immense problem that's right here on his doorstep.

In a way he has created this, he's fermented this beverage for the past 10 years and easy,

they got to drink it or pour it out.

All right, I'm going to read the article, but before we do, I'm going to invite you to pray with me.

And we're going to pray the prayer that our Lord Jesus Christ taught us, the our Father, the Paternoster.

And normally, part 3, you see a spirit of whereby, we rise the Lord over, he isendo andwidth given

to them.

Teacher and teacher of the Churchんでh, we rise the Lord up and forth trucks of His highest purpose which we,

Sant'Anton Tazio, and Saliba Rano Somalo.

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