Ahead of the Amazon Synod, prayer campaigns and events highlighted disputes over indigenous respect, married priests, ecology, and women’s roles, with groups both opposing and supporting aspects of the synod’s working document.
Pope Francis’s attitude toward critics worries many Catholics, prompting calls for prayer by Burke and Schneider. Yet faith in Christ’s love and wisdom remains a source of hope amid Church tensions.
Burke and Schneider highlight errors in the Amazon Synod document and call for prayer and fasting to safeguard priestly celibacy and orthodox doctrine against theological confusion and heresies.
Bishop Schneider contends the Abu Dhabi document wrongly affirms God wills religious diversity, contradicting the First Commandment. He urges clearer teaching to preserve Christ’s uniqueness and the Gospel’s truth amid interfaith dialogue.
Bishop Schneider warns the Abu Dhabi document’s claim that God wills religious diversity contradicts the First Commandment. He urges clear teaching to uphold Christ’s uniqueness amid interfaith dialogue and Church mission.
Corrupt clergy are contrasted with Bishop Schneider’s persecuted, faithful family. Bishop Schneider defends Eucharistic reverence, urging traditional practices like kneeling and receiving on the tongue, while criticizing casual attitudes in modern Catholic worship.
Bishop Schneider opposes married clergy proposals in the Amazon Synod, urging priestly celibacy and eucharistic devotion. Other leaders also warn the synod promotes false teaching and threatens Church tradition.
Bishop Schneider condemns Amazon Synod proposals for married clergy, calling them ideological and harmful. He urges celibate priesthood, missionary renewal, Eucharistic devotion, and fidelity to apostolic tradition amid growing Church dissent.
Cardinal Burke and Bishop Schneider signed a declaration confronting doctrinal confusion. It defends traditional Catholic teachings on faith, morality, sacraments, and warns against errors threatening the Church and souls today.
Cardinals and bishops released a 2019 declaration affirming 40 Catholic truths amid doctrinal confusion, urging faithful to publicly confess and defend these teachings with charity, aiming to restore spiritual health in the Church.
In June 2019, bishops led by Cardinal Burke issued a declaration reaffirming Church teachings amid doctrinal confusion, urging public witness of faith and entrusting the effort to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
Bishop Schneider rejected accusations of formal heresy against Pope Francis, called for correcting theological errors in the Abu Dhabi statement, and opposed female deacons and married priests, stressing fidelity to Church doctrine.
Bishop Schneider affirms the Open Letter’s heresy charge against Pope Francis’ Abu Dhabi statement, demanding a clear correction to uphold the unique truth of Christ and protect the Church’s deposit of faith.
Bishop Schneider says Pope Francis' private clarification on religious diversity is inadequate, as the Abu Dhabi statement still stands. He urges a public correction to defend Christ’s unique role and Catholic doctrine.
Bishop Schneider views the Notre Dame fire as a symbol of the Church’s spiritual decay, urging penance, doctrinal fidelity, and evangelization. He finds hope in youth prayer during the tragedy.
Bishop Schneider's op-ed addresses heretical popes, offering theological insight and practical guidance. He urges faithful responses, including correction, prayer, and possibly ending habitual relations with erring popes to protect faith.
Bishop Schneider rejects sedevacantism, citing history and theology to affirm no pope has lost office due to heresy. He urges correction, not deposition, following the Church’s enduring tradition and authority.
Kazakhstan bishops back Archbishop Chullikatt against misconduct claims, affirming his good service, lawful staff treatment, and commitment to defending traditional family values, hoping for his continued apostolic work.
Bishop Athanasius Schneider, Auxiliary Bishop of Astana, counters a compromised magisterium by creating the Gloria Dei website to support faithful Catholics globally. May God bless and keep him.
Bishop Schneider questioned Pope Francis on religious diversity and criticized the Vatican abuse summit for ignoring root causes such as homosexuality and moral relativism, emphasizing a need for deeper love of Christ.
Bishop Schneider welcomes Cardinal Müller’s Manifesto as vital for faith clarity, condemns Cardinal Kasper’s rejection, and calls for a united, faithful resistance against doctrinal confusion and neo-gnostic distortions in the Church.
Bishop Schneider declared Christianity the only God-willed religion, opposing religious pluralism in the Abu Dhabi document, and emphasized Jesus as the sole way, truth, and life, with true brotherhood found only in Christ.
Bishop Schneider stated clerical sexual abuse stems mainly from homosexual vice and moral relativism, warning the Vatican summit will fail without confronting these issues and the existence of homosexual networks in the Church.
Bishop Schneider received a verbal Vatican order to reduce foreign trips, highlighting a pattern of silencing critical voices while others receive leniency, reflecting unease with open criticism within the Church hierarchy.
Bishop Schneider critiques the Youth Synod’s sentimental language and papal-approved document, stresses non-infallibility of such teachings, and warns that frequent deliberative synods risk conciliarism and distract bishops from prayer and evangelization.
Bishop Schneider says the Vatican Youth Synod document shows sentimentalism and that senior clergy used youth to push agendas, avoiding key issues like homosexuality’s role in sexual abuse and promoting ambiguous doctrines.
Bishop Schneider’s extensive interview discusses key Church issues, including Vatican II, Amoris Laetitia, liturgy, and youth synod, available as a free e-book titled Catholic Church: Where Are You Heading?
Bishop Schneider supports Archbishop Viganò’s sworn testimony accusing Pope Francis of covering up abuse, urging complete transparency in the Church, especially from the Pope, despite the gravity of accusing a reigning pope.
Bishop Schneider warns that LGBT ideology threatens the Church, likening it to early Christian persecution. He criticizes clergy supporting “gay pride” and calls for a proper Catholic response in his statement.
Bishop Schneider condemned gay adoption as moral abuse, supporting Catholic agencies refusing placements with same-sex couples. Philadelphia ended contracts with such agencies, leading to a federal lawsuit over religious freedom violations.
