Meet the ‘Queer-Sensitive’ New Head of German Novus Ordo Bishops

Heiner Wilmer succeeds Georg Bätzing…

Meet the ‘Queer-Sensitive’ New Head of German Novus Ordo Bishops

Heiner Wilmer of Hildesheim is now Germany’s top Novus Ordo bishop
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The body of apostates officially known as the ‘Roman Catholic bishops’ of Germany is meeting this week for its spring conference.

This morning, Feb. 24, the assembly elected a new president. He is ‘Bishop’ Heiner Wilmer, the local ordinary of Hildesheim:

On Tuesday morning, Wilmer, the bishop of Hildesheim, was elected by the 56 bishops attending the spring plenary assembly as the successor of Bishop Georg Bätzing of Limburg.

Wilmer is known as a heterodox prelate and supporter of the heretical German Synodal Way. He regularly voted with the majority of bishops and the Synodal Assembly in favor of heretical documents that seek to change Church doctrine.

(Andreas Wailzer, “German bishops elect new leader who rejected Church teaching on homosexuality”, Life Site, Feb. 24, 2026)

Considering the position Wilmer now holds, it will be good to review a few facts about him to demonstrate what religion he does not believe in: Roman Catholicism.

Heiner Wilmer, SCJ (b. 1961) joined the Congregation of the Priests of the Sacred Heart in 1982. On May 31, 1987, he was ‘ordained a priest’ by ‘Abp.’ Oskar Saier in the Novus Ordo rite. In 2015, he became Superior General of his congregation. His current assignment is that of playing Catholic bishop of the diocese of Hildesheim, a position to which he was appointed by the Argentinian apostate Jorge Bergoglio (‘Pope Francis’) on Apr. 6, 2018. And as of today, he is also the president of the national conference of Novus Ordo bishops.

In late 2022 and early ’23, there was a rumor that ‘Pope’ Francis was going to pick Wilmer to become the new Prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith. Conservatives and traditionalists alike were alarmed at the prospect of Wilmer being in charge of doctrine for the global church:

• A Christmas Surprise? – Francis to name Über-Modernist German Bishop as Prefect for Doctrine of the Faith (Rorate Caeli)
• Pope Francis to appoint heterodox German bishop as Church’s doctrine chief: reports (Life Site)
• This Controversial German Bishop May Soon Be Vatican’s Doctrinal Head (National Catholic Register)

Ultimately, of course, Wilmer did not get chosen for that position. Instead, Francis decided that the infamous osculatory remediation expert Victor Manuel Fernandez would be the best choice. Whether that is an improvement over Wilmer may be debated. Theologically, the two are probably on the same page.

A quick look at Wilmer’s recent record in Hildesheim will help to shed some more light on what goes on theologically behind the man’s forehead: He introduced what’s known as ‘queer-sensitive pastoral care’.

On Sep. 2, 2024, the diocese published a report announcing three diocesan points of contact for this specialized type of ‘care’. For those wondering what one might wish to contact any of these staff members for, the report lists as examples “when a lesbian couple registers their child for baptism, a trans person wants to celebrate their transition with a blessing ceremony, or parents of a non-binary child seek pastoral accompaniment” (our translation).

Ugh. Did you get that? In Wilmer’s ‘Catholic’ diocese, lesbian “couples” can register “their” child for baptism; a “trans person” can get a “blessing” for his decision to deny the sex God gave him (what happened to ‘born this way’?!), which may even include surgical genital mutilation; and parents can have a “non-binary” child (!).

Let’s be clear about something: No child has two mothers; there are no “trans people”, there are no “non-binary” children (nor adults, for that matter); and any kind of “gender transition” should get an exorcism, not a blessing.

The diocesan news report explains further that the creation of such “queer-sensitive” pastoral care

will broaden the focus on dealing with gender diversity, in particular transgender and intersex people. The commissioning is also the continuation of a central demand from the Hildesheim Declaration “Blessing for this world” from March 2021: “People are an equal part of the church regardless of their sexual identity. God’s blessing is for them and their relationships as partners – because it is for all loving relationships without exception.”

(“Neue Ansprechpersonen für queersensible Seelsorge”, Bistum Hildesheim, Sep. 2, 2024; our translation.)

So under Wilmer’s watch, the ‘Catholic Church’ in Hildesheim accepts “gender diversity” and believes in “transgender people” as well as “intersex people”. They accept “sexual identity” and claim that relationships that are diametrically opposed to the natural law and God’s own revelation can nevertheless be genuinely “loving” and as such deserve God’s blessing. (How much God actually ‘blesses’ such things can be seen, for example, in Gen 19:1-29, Rom 1:24-32, and Jude 7.)

If God blesses “all loving relationships without exception”, as Wilmer’s Modernist club insists, will Hildesheim churches soon offer blessings for incestuous couples, throuples, polygamous romances, pedophilic relationships, unnatural unions between man and beast, etc.? Or perhaps ‘love’ between people who identify as non-binary unicorns? Don’t say it can’t happen! Not long ago anyone claiming there were more than two genders would have been locked up in an insane asylum, and look at how fast things have changed in just a few years!

Hildesheim wants to be a “safe space” for the sexually confused, the article notes further. To be clear: There are a number of (usually quite young) people who are truly confused regarding their bodies and their God-given sexuality — the documentary Dysconnected tells the story — due to all kinds of factors stemming from their childhood, family situation, education, exposure to pornography and the occult, etc. Of course such people are victims and need spiritual and psychological help; they are certainly deserving of genuine Catholic charity. We are not condemning those who are sincerely struggling and wish to be normal. We are condemning those who declare wrong to be right; evil to be good; delusion to be sobriety; disorder to be sanity; and disease to be soundness, and want to celebrate this insanity.

Further on in the report, one of the diocesan contact people remarks: “As a church, we want to be a place where all people are welcome.” No, they actually don’t. They have no interest, for example, in welcoming people who oppose their diversity madness, people they would describe as closed-minded, intolerant, discriminatory, rigid, regressive, hateful, homophobic, etc. It really isn’t about welcoming everyone, which is an impossibility anyway, it’s simply about swapping one set of excluded people for another.

If there is one place in existence that all are welcome to join unconditionally, it is hell. The road that leads to it is incredibly broad and very comfortable: “…for wide is the gate, and broad is the way that leadeth to destruction, and many there are who go in thereat” (Mt 7:13). For those in the state of mortal sin, there are no requirements for admission: “Come as you are and stay forever” is the motto there. There is a reason why the Apostles preached repentance and acceptance of the Gospel (see Acts 2:22-42) and not simply unconditional welcome. In this they imitated Our Lord, of course (see Mk 1:15).

By the way: In a 2018 interview he gave to Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger, ‘Bp.’ Wilmer maintained that “abuse of power is part of the Church’s DNA” and said this needed to have consequences for theology. He went on to praise as a “prophet of our time” the German Über-Modernist Fr. Eugen Drewerman (b. 1940), who like Fr. Hans Küng (1928-2021) is so obvious an apostate that in the early 1990s even the Vatican II Church saw the need to revoke his faculties to teach and act as a priest.

There is nothing Catholic left in Wilmer’s diocese, and that is probably what got him elected as his country’s top ‘bishop’. After all, he is simply taking Amoris Laetitia and Fiducia Supplicans to the next level and is only doing what ‘Pope’ Leo XIV’s late predecessor had called for: confirming ‘queer people’ in their ‘identity’ and ensuring that the aberrosexual agenda finds acceptance in the church in practice, which is where it will matter most. Granted, Francis is dead, but Leo XIV is very much alive, and he’s already shown his (rainbow) colors. There is no doubt he is pleased with the “queer-sensitive” pastoral approach Wilmer takes. Perhaps that is what they spoke about when Leo received Wilmer in audience on Nov. 13, 2025.

So now Germany’s apostate pseudo-bishops have a new boss, but given the rapid decline the Vatican II Sect in Germany has been in, does it even matter? It’s not terribly important whose face gets to ‘accompany’ the inevitable ‘path to completion’.

Aside from ‘Bishop’ Bätzing, who held the post from 2020 until now, other former presidents of the national episcopal conference include such beacons of orthodoxy and sound morals as Reinhard Marx (2014-2020), who believes Christ didn’t proclaim any divine doctrine; Robert Zollitsch (2008-2014), who denies the Atonement; and Karl Lehmann (1987-2008), whose persistent work to undermine Catholicism was awarded by the Lutheran Church.

Clearly, Wilmer is a fitting successor to these men.

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