Cardinal Woelki did not support any of the demands of the Synodal Way and, departing from the majority of German bishops, tried to push through a completely different statute. He warned against trying to “further develop the teaching” if that meant “total opposition to the existing teaching.” The cardinal suggested that the proposals of the Synodal Way could even be “against Revelation,” and that this threatened the unity of the Church. However, unlike the bishops of Passau and Regensburg, he did not formally take a position separate to the affirmative one taken by the rest of the German Episcopate.
