{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "So some context on German bishops breaking with the Vatican to create validating rituals for same-sex unions:\nIn recent history...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/703027376057090049/", "html": "<p>So some context on German bishops breaking with the Vatican to create validating rituals for same-sex unions:</p><ul><li>In recent history Germany is mixed Catholic-Protestant, both identities more a matter of regional heritage than theology</li><li>The Protestantism is of the North/Baltic Sea type that remained a matter of historic identity largely by shifting with the population over the 20th Century</li><li>German Catholics therefore have <i>direct experience</i> of Christianity being made compatible with post-heteronormative norms</li><li>The Catholic Church&rsquo;s failure to keep pace is therefore understood as an unforced error embarrassing German Catholics before their Protestant compatriots</li><li>Tension with the Vatican is not understood as undermining the bishops&rsquo; authority; Catholic Germans never considered themselves Catholic by virtue of being aligned with the Pope, but by virtue of being <i>Bavarian</i>, etc.</li></ul>"}