From lay preaching and rainbow spectacle to interreligious synodality, Rome blesses nearly every breach of Catholic order—then discovers its canonical backbone when Tradition refuses to play along.
Where does Canon law or any other rule of the Church hold or imply that it is a violation of Catholic principles for a Catholic to believe that a certain claimant to the papal chair is not valid?
During the Great Western Schism, when there were two and even three competing claimants to the papal chair, virtually every Catholic necessarily thought that there was a false claimant to the papal chair.
Who was the greater schismatic during the great western schism do you suppose: St. Vincent Ferrer or St. Catherine of Siena? Is it too late for their paperwork of contrition and reconciliation to be sent to the FSSP?
The example of the saints and our obligation to love God with our whole mind require us to apply our intellects to legitimate areas of contention in the Church, such as invalid claims to the papal chair and revolutionary teachings that contradict the perennial teachings of the Church.
The revolutionary teaching that all religions lead to God is the one that strikes me as being of the sheerest stupidity. I would think it could be argued that any papal claimant teaching such a thing, in any way shape or form, demonstrates an intellectual incapacity that precludes an inherent intellectual capacity requirement for validly occupying the papal chair.
as always, your research and writing is excellent. what is most interesting is that you end the titles of your most recent articles with: "....meanwhile the sspx is in 'schism'". the reality of your research brings us to full circle.
Having a lay person give a homily (or commentary or whatever someone might want to call it) greatly obscures the avenue for proper punishment and correction if something heterodox is taught from the pulpit. And just maybe that is the whole reason for allowing lay persons to preach.
“Culture is custom”. Canon law does not matter to these men nor does the Word of God nor does Natural Law. For they violate natural law with their unnatural lusts for other men. So what makes one think they will follow God’s written word let alone canon law? They use canon law when it suits them and violates it just the same. The root problem in the Church is a homosexual problem. Everything is going “gay” because they are “gay”.
One of those "can't make this stuff up" moments. 1) I hope to sign up to do lay commentary at Catholic Masses -- it'll be a doozy. 2) I would like my Missouri Lutheran pastor friend to evaluate my archdiocese. In many ways he is closer to the Catholic Faith than to the current regime in Rome. 3) Any cleric who habitually uses the words "synodality, discernment, listening, maturing, templates, assemblies, and submission channels" should be forced to fast on bread and water for a year. 4) Where do you find five-hundred weirdos willing to be painted in rainbow-homo colors and line up naked?
Answer to your 4th point - almost anywhere there's a sodomite presence, which these days is everywhere. 500, 600, 1,000 sodomites and/or sodomite sympathizers - no problem.
What’s going on in Kansas sounds almost like a “struggle session” during the Cultural Revolution in China. I guess no one will be beaten or shot but there’s the same note of almost ritualised humiliation. I doubt they’ll get many takers, though, because it’s a voluntary process—no one’s going to be dragged there by force. It’s all sustained by fraud rather than force. And who’s really going to buy the story with everything that’s going on? It’s rather shameful that it’s the FSSP doing this. It’s not as if it were McElroy or something.
Honestly Chris your explanations are masterful…and “they” claim we are mentally ill!!! Those awful ad hominem attacks can be so hurtful and almost convincing when there is no one else around thinking soundly.
I just so appreciate being able to associate with right thinking people. It’s an immense blessing! Thanks be to God for Him and His Faith! And I thank Him for having raised you up to be one of His spokesmen.
Blessed be Jesus Whose mother is Mary, CoRedemptrix, Mediatrix of all graces and Queen of all creatures!!!
This is not the first time Holy Trinity has gotten into trouble with homilies given by someone other than a priest. As a longtime parishioner, I learned that for the first time we were given a non-Jesuit pastor, Father William Byron (former president of Catholic University), because the church had allowed a non-priest to preach the homily (I was not in attendance when it occurred). Oddly enough, it happened when, I think (not 💯) McCarrick was archbishop.
One priest’s Easter homily declared his support for women priests. An earlier pastor said John Paul 2 “would wasn’t his pope.” A 50ish new priest with a late vocation said he had given up his homosexual lifestyle for the priesthood. Then there was the BLM banner that, last I saw maybe a year ago, was raised outside the church in October 2020 and remains.
Although I doubt it, maybe Holy Trinity’s homilies will improve. The priests’ were, while well written, generally “Smile! God loves you” varieties, with all the spiritual nutrition of cotton candy. So far as I could tell, the only sins they were aware of were racism (something the majority white liberal parishioners were certain they weren’t doing) and climate change.
I began attending the parish when I was an undergraduate at Georgetown and stayed for a long time. The Jesuits had an amazing reputation and I trusted them. They betrayed that trust.
This new non- Catholic Synodal (whatever Synodal means) church keeps morphing along into further inanity, insanity and absurdity. This exact same thing happened to the UMC and the faithful actual Bible believing non-LGBTQ, non- DEI, non- Woke Methodist Christians were forced to leave. It also has happened in the Anglican/Episcopalian Churches. It happened here too 60 odd years ago but no one wants to admit or acknowledge it. This is the crux of the SPPX issue. Yet even they don’t want to admit the truth that what is presented as the Catholic Church is no longer Catholic but a fancy version of Unitarian Universalism or Christian Universalism espousing the tenets of Liberation (nee Marxism) Theology.
Why is it a okay when climate is changed by nature, as is always happening, but a grave sin when climate is changed by man?
If only we could master time travel and send back the climate alarmists to the not so distant past when a half mile of ice covered the center of our country, so they could experience how much they like it if you don't warm the climate.
Cold is way more dangerous than heat. And as a bonus excess carbon dioxide is plant food. The lie is that carbon dioxide is a by product of climate change. I suggest to any looking at pictures of coastlines say the Statue of Liberty in the 1880’s vs now. There is no change. It is a pagan religion worshipping Mother Earth. Pachamama. Sound familiar.
It is not okay that the climate is changed by man---for he's doing it intentionally, violently, aggressively with bombardment, missile strikes, electronic pulse explosive devises, machine-gunner direct killings of innocent human beings; also the pulverizing of villages, farming properties, mining facilities, oil wells + refineries...and the minute demolition of homes and businesses in Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Iran, and now the West Bank a target. See where the climate pollution stems from?
That’s not climate change. War is never good but don’t conflate the evil follies of men with the climate. And also without oil you have nothing. No goods, no groceries, no farming, no heat, no AC, no transportation absolutely nothing. It’s probably not good to be so dependent on one commodity (among others too) but that too is a different problem. Also do not think that somehow windmills (which kill thousands of birds and whose blades have to be buried because they are not biodegradable or recyclable) are anywhere near a solution. It also takes a huge amount of oil to produce an EV and are dependent (for now) on Lithium. Besides one good solar flare and our grid is gone for years and to me hardening the grid and stockpiling the generators necessary in that event to me is more important.
Andrew, my apology to you if you think that I am agreeable to the falsity of prognosticators blaming climate change on man. What I meant to communicate by my comment is that the climate of our planet is being destroyed by the actions of men wielding weapons of destruction in wars. 85 wars since WWII provoked and abetted by the United States at the head of the allied West.. Shocking destruction by repeat demolition of human beings and urban properties, industrial complexes of buildings. I am a fossil fuel advocate. I despise the green energy programs. Wind turbines are a killer of God's creatures throughout His earthly kingdom, not only birds and whales and salmon, but of people too; forests and farmlands and sea fronts are also destroyed in the building of such ugly ruinous devices. I hope other persons regognize the cost of conflict beyond innocent deaths, false pretexts, insidious narratives of conflict status, and murderous deaths for the ambitions of greed.
Scripture gives us a clear command in Ephesians 5:11:
“Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them.”
Our culture has become dangerously desensitized to sin. Someone once traced the tragic, five-stage progression of how evil gradually conquers a society:
First, we overlook evil.
Then, we tolerate evil.
Then, we legalize evil.
Then, we celebrate evil.
Finally, we persecute those who still call it evil.
The Bible foresaw this exact endpoint in Isaiah 59:15:
“...whoever shuns evil becomes a prey.”
God issues a stern warning to any nation that reaches this point of moral inversion in Isaiah 5:20:
“Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!”
The culture mirrors the church as it has overlooked evil within its own seminaries, tolerated it for the end goal of having more masses, ignored the legalization process as Cardinal Dolan made sure to be out of NYC when they approved same sex marriage and now we see they celebrate it openly in "all are welcome" churches. Yet, the SSPX are excommunicated, Bishop Strickland is cancelled and other good priests who stand against evil. Pray for God’s mercy, and ask Him for the courage to warn those we love of the coming judgment. In the end, every one of us will stand before God and give an account of how we lived."
I took the questionnaire but struggled on question 1: «Did he ever conclude that the visible institution had ceased to function as the authentic Church?»
Well, there was that one time when the pachamama was worshipped in the Vatican with the Pope in attendance - it kind of made me squirm a little.
But I’m sure that’s nothing that a female commentary or a double act with the Bishop could not set me straight on. I do have a tendency to split hairs.
I have to admit that the Sarah Mullally photo op is bearing its fruit more rapdily than expected. I bet the attitude and paradigm shifters in Rome are giddy with delight.
The practice of lay preaching seems to be cleverly initiated by both outward declarations of its desirability (Germany) and far less advertised implementations of the same (Washington, D.C.). And I hadn't realized just how far gone Holy Trinity was until this article...sheesh what a mess, but then again, that's exactly what Bergoglio wanted the kids to do: "Make a mess!"
The one true Church, founded by Jesus Christ, passed on to us through Papal authority, is being controlled by The WORLD Council of churches led by the German Protestant wing of named group. More than ever do I believe that there is no salvation outside the true Roman Catholic Church. Viva Cristo Rey!!! And, let’s return to treating and respecting Him as our King!!
Prideful painted demons, they love the stage. Prideful women who want to be in the pulpit. Not my religion, which St James said includes keeping yourself unspotted from the world.
You wrote: "A Catholic diocese exists to profess the revealed faith, offer the true sacrifice, administer the sacraments, govern the baptized, and convert souls to Jesus Christ." One could add outreach by feeding the poor, clothing the naked, visiting the sick and prisoners.
This kind of summary of the purpose and mission of a Catholic diocese would have been uncontroversial in the past, recalling the Great Commission of Matthew 28:20. But once fulfilling the mission of the Church itself becomes questioned or compromised--deemed "exclusionary," "unpastoral," insufficiently "relational," or "triumphalist" (therefore, not "synodal")--every other aspect of Church life becomes vulnerable to decay or outright dismantling. There are so many examples, as you report day by day.
Father Sven Leo Conrad (FSSP) told the german news outlet 'domradio' that he dislikes being called "traditionalist": "We are Catholic," the president of the Society's academic council clarifies. "Traditionalism," he says, "has become an ideological term. It's based on a false understanding of tradition, one that disconnects past traditions from the Church of today. But you can't pit the Church of today against the Church of yesterday, or vice versa." He is annoyed that the Society of St. Peter is constantly lumped together with the Society of St. Pius X. (...)
He considers it normal that not everyone agrees with everything; this discussion also takes place at the universal church level and even among cardinals: "But fundamentally, it is clear that we recognize the Second Vatican Council as one that has produced something good."
Vatican II? A solution in search of a problem. Of course the “problem” is Jesus Christ. God. The Word. His teachings conflict with the world. Being “in the world but not of the world” is too old fashioned. The Church needed to keep up with the times. Exchange truth for a lie.
Well I, too, object to being labeled a “traditional Catholic”. Nope! I’m just Catholic! What are you? It’s like being born either male or female and then told you can choose to be whatever sex you prefer. Total insanity.
St Michael's Church in Munich? I assume that it is this eye popping structure:
"St. Michael's is a Jesuit church in Munich, capital city of the state of Bavaria, Germany. It is the largest Renaissance church north of the Alps. The style of the building had an enormous influence on Southern German early Baroque architecture."
The one with the eye popping architecture, a short walk from the Cathedral and several other magnificent churches? Well, if lay pastoral official Theresia Reischl is going to break the rules, do it in a really stylish setting. Get used to ministering in a grand place of worship, so you are prepared for full ministry and Episcopal office. Though how many of the citizens of Munich will still be worshipping with Mother Theresia is another question.
They charged me two Euros to visit the many local Royals entombed in the crypt. But then it is run by the Jesuits (Quick, put your surprise face on). With the billions in Church Tax, you might have thought they could afford to let foreigners in for free....
Where does Canon law or any other rule of the Church hold or imply that it is a violation of Catholic principles for a Catholic to believe that a certain claimant to the papal chair is not valid?
During the Great Western Schism, when there were two and even three competing claimants to the papal chair, virtually every Catholic necessarily thought that there was a false claimant to the papal chair.
Who was the greater schismatic during the great western schism do you suppose: St. Vincent Ferrer or St. Catherine of Siena? Is it too late for their paperwork of contrition and reconciliation to be sent to the FSSP?
The example of the saints and our obligation to love God with our whole mind require us to apply our intellects to legitimate areas of contention in the Church, such as invalid claims to the papal chair and revolutionary teachings that contradict the perennial teachings of the Church.
The revolutionary teaching that all religions lead to God is the one that strikes me as being of the sheerest stupidity. I would think it could be argued that any papal claimant teaching such a thing, in any way shape or form, demonstrates an intellectual incapacity that precludes an inherent intellectual capacity requirement for validly occupying the papal chair.
I think so, too; it is appalling that contemporary Church's anchor is "comfort" for lay faithful and unfaithful alike.
as always, your research and writing is excellent. what is most interesting is that you end the titles of your most recent articles with: "....meanwhile the sspx is in 'schism'". the reality of your research brings us to full circle.
Ok yeah Chris I agree this is all bad!!!
Having a lay person give a homily (or commentary or whatever someone might want to call it) greatly obscures the avenue for proper punishment and correction if something heterodox is taught from the pulpit. And just maybe that is the whole reason for allowing lay persons to preach.
“Culture is custom”. Canon law does not matter to these men nor does the Word of God nor does Natural Law. For they violate natural law with their unnatural lusts for other men. So what makes one think they will follow God’s written word let alone canon law? They use canon law when it suits them and violates it just the same. The root problem in the Church is a homosexual problem. Everything is going “gay” because they are “gay”.
One of those "can't make this stuff up" moments. 1) I hope to sign up to do lay commentary at Catholic Masses -- it'll be a doozy. 2) I would like my Missouri Lutheran pastor friend to evaluate my archdiocese. In many ways he is closer to the Catholic Faith than to the current regime in Rome. 3) Any cleric who habitually uses the words "synodality, discernment, listening, maturing, templates, assemblies, and submission channels" should be forced to fast on bread and water for a year. 4) Where do you find five-hundred weirdos willing to be painted in rainbow-homo colors and line up naked?
Answer to your 4th point - almost anywhere there's a sodomite presence, which these days is everywhere. 500, 600, 1,000 sodomites and/or sodomite sympathizers - no problem.
First mortal sin, endorsing homosexual behavior. Second mortal sin, running around naked. Is there a third? Defacing one's body?
Appearing naked in public is a sign of the demonic
What’s going on in Kansas sounds almost like a “struggle session” during the Cultural Revolution in China. I guess no one will be beaten or shot but there’s the same note of almost ritualised humiliation. I doubt they’ll get many takers, though, because it’s a voluntary process—no one’s going to be dragged there by force. It’s all sustained by fraud rather than force. And who’s really going to buy the story with everything that’s going on? It’s rather shameful that it’s the FSSP doing this. It’s not as if it were McElroy or something.
Honestly Chris your explanations are masterful…and “they” claim we are mentally ill!!! Those awful ad hominem attacks can be so hurtful and almost convincing when there is no one else around thinking soundly.
I just so appreciate being able to associate with right thinking people. It’s an immense blessing! Thanks be to God for Him and His Faith! And I thank Him for having raised you up to be one of His spokesmen.
Blessed be Jesus Whose mother is Mary, CoRedemptrix, Mediatrix of all graces and Queen of all creatures!!!
AMEN! 👏
This is not the first time Holy Trinity has gotten into trouble with homilies given by someone other than a priest. As a longtime parishioner, I learned that for the first time we were given a non-Jesuit pastor, Father William Byron (former president of Catholic University), because the church had allowed a non-priest to preach the homily (I was not in attendance when it occurred). Oddly enough, it happened when, I think (not 💯) McCarrick was archbishop.
One priest’s Easter homily declared his support for women priests. An earlier pastor said John Paul 2 “would wasn’t his pope.” A 50ish new priest with a late vocation said he had given up his homosexual lifestyle for the priesthood. Then there was the BLM banner that, last I saw maybe a year ago, was raised outside the church in October 2020 and remains.
Although I doubt it, maybe Holy Trinity’s homilies will improve. The priests’ were, while well written, generally “Smile! God loves you” varieties, with all the spiritual nutrition of cotton candy. So far as I could tell, the only sins they were aware of were racism (something the majority white liberal parishioners were certain they weren’t doing) and climate change.
I began attending the parish when I was an undergraduate at Georgetown and stayed for a long time. The Jesuits had an amazing reputation and I trusted them. They betrayed that trust.
Thank you for this history! Sad!
I keep wondering what St Ignatius Loyala, St Isaac Jogues and all the Jesuit martyrs would do if they were here.
Burn the monsters at the stake.
This new non- Catholic Synodal (whatever Synodal means) church keeps morphing along into further inanity, insanity and absurdity. This exact same thing happened to the UMC and the faithful actual Bible believing non-LGBTQ, non- DEI, non- Woke Methodist Christians were forced to leave. It also has happened in the Anglican/Episcopalian Churches. It happened here too 60 odd years ago but no one wants to admit or acknowledge it. This is the crux of the SPPX issue. Yet even they don’t want to admit the truth that what is presented as the Catholic Church is no longer Catholic but a fancy version of Unitarian Universalism or Christian Universalism espousing the tenets of Liberation (nee Marxism) Theology.
Why is it a okay when climate is changed by nature, as is always happening, but a grave sin when climate is changed by man?
If only we could master time travel and send back the climate alarmists to the not so distant past when a half mile of ice covered the center of our country, so they could experience how much they like it if you don't warm the climate.
Cold is way more dangerous than heat. And as a bonus excess carbon dioxide is plant food. The lie is that carbon dioxide is a by product of climate change. I suggest to any looking at pictures of coastlines say the Statue of Liberty in the 1880’s vs now. There is no change. It is a pagan religion worshipping Mother Earth. Pachamama. Sound familiar.
It is not okay that the climate is changed by man---for he's doing it intentionally, violently, aggressively with bombardment, missile strikes, electronic pulse explosive devises, machine-gunner direct killings of innocent human beings; also the pulverizing of villages, farming properties, mining facilities, oil wells + refineries...and the minute demolition of homes and businesses in Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Iran, and now the West Bank a target. See where the climate pollution stems from?
That’s not climate change. War is never good but don’t conflate the evil follies of men with the climate. And also without oil you have nothing. No goods, no groceries, no farming, no heat, no AC, no transportation absolutely nothing. It’s probably not good to be so dependent on one commodity (among others too) but that too is a different problem. Also do not think that somehow windmills (which kill thousands of birds and whose blades have to be buried because they are not biodegradable or recyclable) are anywhere near a solution. It also takes a huge amount of oil to produce an EV and are dependent (for now) on Lithium. Besides one good solar flare and our grid is gone for years and to me hardening the grid and stockpiling the generators necessary in that event to me is more important.
Andrew, my apology to you if you think that I am agreeable to the falsity of prognosticators blaming climate change on man. What I meant to communicate by my comment is that the climate of our planet is being destroyed by the actions of men wielding weapons of destruction in wars. 85 wars since WWII provoked and abetted by the United States at the head of the allied West.. Shocking destruction by repeat demolition of human beings and urban properties, industrial complexes of buildings. I am a fossil fuel advocate. I despise the green energy programs. Wind turbines are a killer of God's creatures throughout His earthly kingdom, not only birds and whales and salmon, but of people too; forests and farmlands and sea fronts are also destroyed in the building of such ugly ruinous devices. I hope other persons regognize the cost of conflict beyond innocent deaths, false pretexts, insidious narratives of conflict status, and murderous deaths for the ambitions of greed.
Scripture gives us a clear command in Ephesians 5:11:
“Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them.”
Our culture has become dangerously desensitized to sin. Someone once traced the tragic, five-stage progression of how evil gradually conquers a society:
First, we overlook evil.
Then, we tolerate evil.
Then, we legalize evil.
Then, we celebrate evil.
Finally, we persecute those who still call it evil.
The Bible foresaw this exact endpoint in Isaiah 59:15:
“...whoever shuns evil becomes a prey.”
God issues a stern warning to any nation that reaches this point of moral inversion in Isaiah 5:20:
“Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!”
The culture mirrors the church as it has overlooked evil within its own seminaries, tolerated it for the end goal of having more masses, ignored the legalization process as Cardinal Dolan made sure to be out of NYC when they approved same sex marriage and now we see they celebrate it openly in "all are welcome" churches. Yet, the SSPX are excommunicated, Bishop Strickland is cancelled and other good priests who stand against evil. Pray for God’s mercy, and ask Him for the courage to warn those we love of the coming judgment. In the end, every one of us will stand before God and give an account of how we lived."
Great reporting Chris.
I took the questionnaire but struggled on question 1: «Did he ever conclude that the visible institution had ceased to function as the authentic Church?»
Well, there was that one time when the pachamama was worshipped in the Vatican with the Pope in attendance - it kind of made me squirm a little.
But I’m sure that’s nothing that a female commentary or a double act with the Bishop could not set me straight on. I do have a tendency to split hairs.
I have to admit that the Sarah Mullally photo op is bearing its fruit more rapdily than expected. I bet the attitude and paradigm shifters in Rome are giddy with delight.
The practice of lay preaching seems to be cleverly initiated by both outward declarations of its desirability (Germany) and far less advertised implementations of the same (Washington, D.C.). And I hadn't realized just how far gone Holy Trinity was until this article...sheesh what a mess, but then again, that's exactly what Bergoglio wanted the kids to do: "Make a mess!"
The one true Church, founded by Jesus Christ, passed on to us through Papal authority, is being controlled by The WORLD Council of churches led by the German Protestant wing of named group. More than ever do I believe that there is no salvation outside the true Roman Catholic Church. Viva Cristo Rey!!! And, let’s return to treating and respecting Him as our King!!
Prideful painted demons, they love the stage. Prideful women who want to be in the pulpit. Not my religion, which St James said includes keeping yourself unspotted from the world.
You wrote: "A Catholic diocese exists to profess the revealed faith, offer the true sacrifice, administer the sacraments, govern the baptized, and convert souls to Jesus Christ." One could add outreach by feeding the poor, clothing the naked, visiting the sick and prisoners.
This kind of summary of the purpose and mission of a Catholic diocese would have been uncontroversial in the past, recalling the Great Commission of Matthew 28:20. But once fulfilling the mission of the Church itself becomes questioned or compromised--deemed "exclusionary," "unpastoral," insufficiently "relational," or "triumphalist" (therefore, not "synodal")--every other aspect of Church life becomes vulnerable to decay or outright dismantling. There are so many examples, as you report day by day.
Father Sven Leo Conrad (FSSP) told the german news outlet 'domradio' that he dislikes being called "traditionalist": "We are Catholic," the president of the Society's academic council clarifies. "Traditionalism," he says, "has become an ideological term. It's based on a false understanding of tradition, one that disconnects past traditions from the Church of today. But you can't pit the Church of today against the Church of yesterday, or vice versa." He is annoyed that the Society of St. Peter is constantly lumped together with the Society of St. Pius X. (...)
He considers it normal that not everyone agrees with everything; this discussion also takes place at the universal church level and even among cardinals: "But fundamentally, it is clear that we recognize the Second Vatican Council as one that has produced something good."
"Traditionalism... disconnects past traditions from the Church of today."
He forgot to mention that Bergoglio and Prevost and all the other modernists are the primary culprits who did this disconnecting. Not traditionalists.
Vatican II? A solution in search of a problem. Of course the “problem” is Jesus Christ. God. The Word. His teachings conflict with the world. Being “in the world but not of the world” is too old fashioned. The Church needed to keep up with the times. Exchange truth for a lie.
Well I, too, object to being labeled a “traditional Catholic”. Nope! I’m just Catholic! What are you? It’s like being born either male or female and then told you can choose to be whatever sex you prefer. Total insanity.
St Michael's Church in Munich? I assume that it is this eye popping structure:
"St. Michael's is a Jesuit church in Munich, capital city of the state of Bavaria, Germany. It is the largest Renaissance church north of the Alps. The style of the building had an enormous influence on Southern German early Baroque architecture."
The one with the eye popping architecture, a short walk from the Cathedral and several other magnificent churches? Well, if lay pastoral official Theresia Reischl is going to break the rules, do it in a really stylish setting. Get used to ministering in a grand place of worship, so you are prepared for full ministry and Episcopal office. Though how many of the citizens of Munich will still be worshipping with Mother Theresia is another question.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Michael%27s_Church,_Munich
They charged me two Euros to visit the many local Royals entombed in the crypt. But then it is run by the Jesuits (Quick, put your surprise face on). With the billions in Church Tax, you might have thought they could afford to let foreigners in for free....