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Bishop Schneider Says Next Pope Must Reaffirm Doctrine on Marriage, Sexuality, Male Clergy



March 20, 2025 

Bishop Athanasius Schneider has said that the next pope must clarify Church doctrine on marriage, sexuality, and the solely male priesthood to combat confusion on these dogmatic issues within the Church.

In an interview conducted in German with LifeSiteNews journalist Andreas Wailzer, Bishop Schneider explained what he believes are the main issues the next pope should address.

The bishop from Kazakhstan said that the pope’s main task is “to strengthen the brethren in the faith.”

“This is a divine mandate, one of the first tasks of a pope, and he must carry it out with clarity, not ambiguity,” he stated, stressing that the pope must unambiguously declare the doctrine in “those aspects that have caused the most confusion in recent decades and above all in our time.”

One of these key issues is “the relativism of faith,” i.e., “that supposedly dogmas and faith evolve according to the scheme of Hegel, i.e., evolutionism, which is completely against the Spirit of Christ and the Gospel and the 2000-year tradition of the Church.”

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