Someone asked on Reddit if there would be a Schism in Germany because of the liturgical abuses and more churchmen becoming pro-LGBTQ.
In my opinion, what’s unfolding in Germany isn’t a crisis of the Church so much as a mirror of humanity’s inner conflict. Institutions, like individuals, evolve according to the beliefs that sustain them. When beliefs about authority, love, and morality begin to shift, the structures that express those beliefs must shift too. Or fracture.
Beliefs create reality.
The Church is a vast thought-form shaped over centuries by collective focus. As new generations redefine compassion, sexuality, and personal freedom, that thought-form trembles and reorganizes. The fear of schism is the ego’s fear of transformation; of losing familiar boundaries before new meaning takes form.
The debates around money and doctrine are surface symptoms. On a deeper level, consciousness is moving from external mediation of truth (“the Church tells me”) toward internal communion with it (“I know the divine within me”). Germany, in this sense, is a symbolic stage where the soul of organized religion rehearses its next act.
There is no true division in essence, only differing versions of the same search for union with the divine.
The seeming conflict is creative. It’s how collective beliefs grow new wings.