Bishop Schneider: ‘Remarkable number’ of Church leaders have ‘lost the faith’

(LifeSiteNews) — Bishop Athanasius Schneider of Astana, Kazakhstan, has said a “remarkable number of high-ranking clergy” have “lost the Catholic faith.”

“They want another Church: half-Protestant Church, half worldly, adapted to the impression of the world,” Schneider told Catholic writer and podcaster Matt Gaspers during a larger discussion about the Second Vatican Council and the Society of St. Pius X.

“There are a remarkable number of them over the past 60 years. They have influence in the Church … They’ve promoted [t]his with interior conviction, a desire to really change the Catholic faith, to adapt it completely to the world, and to have a new religion which is relativistic, a kind of syncretism,” said the bishop.

The time frame he specified points to the conclusion of the Second Vatican Council in 1965 as a turning point for the apparent orthodoxy of the Catholic faith. Indeed, Schneider has openly criticized Vatican II and the loss of clear, traditional teaching – and faith – in its wake.

Schneider said that it is “difficult” to ascertain which clergy members have the attitude to “change the Catholic faith,” but that we can declare the result, the “fruits”: “A tremendous general confusion, obfuscation, darkness regarding doctrine, morals, and liturgy.”

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