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During the radio interview, [Bishop] Fischer, a trained psychotherapist, compared homosexuality to alcoholism or an anxiety neurosis. He said there was literature that made that claim, so why not believe it. . . .
[bishop-designate] Wagner has been in the news lately owing to a number of controversial public statements. He has called the Harry Potter book series an invitation to devil worship and implied natural disasters like Hurricane Katrina and the Southeast Asian tsunami were God’s punishments for human sin. . . .
110 Catholics had left the Church in the Linz diocese last week, four times [last year’s number for the same week. An] official of the Linz diocese had commented the number had been “unusually high” [He] added many Catholics had sent his office emails in which they said the Wagner’s nomination as auxiliary bishop of the diocese was the reason for their departure from the Church. Many people had also criticised Pope Benedict XVI for his rehabilitation of bishops in the Pius X Brotherhood in their emails, the official said.
According to Reuters, the Austrian Catholic Church is holding and the Vatican’s readmission of a banned bishop who denies the Holocaust, officials said on Friday." The confluence in time of these two events seems to have led to this crisis and it has caused, according to Reuters, even Austrian prelates to criticize the pope: “In one of the bluntest criticisms from a prelate, Salzburg Archbishop Alois Kothgasser said on Tuesday the SSPX bishops seemed to be heretics who had shut themselves out of the Church. He also said the Church must not shrink into ‘a sect … with few but strictly obedient members’ – a veiled criticism of Pope Benedict, who once suggested the Church might have to reduce to a hard core to survive the secular modernist age.”
During the radio interview, [Bishop] Fischer, a trained psychotherapist, compared homosexuality to alcoholism or an anxiety neurosis. He said there was literature that made that claim, so why not believe it. . . .
[bishop-designate] Wagner has been in the news lately owing to a number of controversial public statements. He has called the Harry Potter book series an invitation to devil worship and implied natural disasters like Hurricane Katrina and the Southeast Asian tsunami were God’s punishments for human sin. . . .
110 Catholics had left the Church in the Linz diocese last week, four times [last year’s number for the same week. An] official of the Linz diocese had commented the number had been “unusually high” [He] added many Catholics had sent his office emails in which they said the Wagner’s nomination as auxiliary bishop of the diocese was the reason for their departure from the Church. Many people had also criticised Pope Benedict XVI for his rehabilitation of bishops in the Pius X Brotherhood in their emails, the official said.
According to Reuters, the Austrian Catholic Church is holding and the Vatican’s readmission of a banned bishop who denies the Holocaust, officials said on Friday." The confluence in time of these two events seems to have led to this crisis and it has caused, according to Reuters, even Austrian prelates to criticize the pope: “In one of the bluntest criticisms from a prelate, Salzburg Archbishop Alois Kothgasser said on Tuesday the SSPX bishops seemed to be heretics who had shut themselves out of the Church. He also said the Church must not shrink into ‘a sect … with few but strictly obedient members’ – a veiled criticism of Pope Benedict, who once suggested the Church might have to reduce to a hard core to survive the secular modernist age.”