Michael Voris:
Well, first of all, Your Excellency, thank you very much for giving us the interview. We are rushing from the airport, you are rushing to the airport. Can I ask you, so many good Catholics feel such a sense of confusion in the church these days. What is the cause of the confusion? Why is there so much ambiguity?
Bishop Schneider: The cause? We have to go back some time. The cause is not only what is happening now. We have to seek the remote causes. The remote causes lie in the fact that we have been living for fifty years in a church climate of relativism, of doctrinal relativism, of moral relativism, which was unfortunately propagated by a great part of the clergy, in catechesis and elsewhere.
Relativism means that the ever-valid truths which Christ gave us and which the Church transmitted unchangeably were not taught clearly. This created a climate and environment over the past decades of relativism and lack of clarity.
Now, the topic of family, marriage, and sexuality is only a concrete revelation of this situation. It has brought to light the situation in which we were already living. There were topics that were unclear before, but now, on family, marriage, and sexuality, there is no possibility to remain neutral in the Church. Everyone has to decide for themselves: I accept the truth of God on these topics, or I will go with the current of the world.