German Catholic Church to sell Wetbild

[TheTrueCentrist]

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Germany’s Catholic Church has announced this week its intention to sell Weltbild, one of the largest publishing groups and booksellers in the country.

The alliance had been an uneasy one for some years but things came to a head last month following a report in the trade paper Buchreport that Weltbild’s book catalogue included a number of erotic titles with potentially pornographic content.

Weltbild was founded in 1948 as a publisher of Catholic magazines. Carel Halff joined the company whose annual turnover is now more than €1,6bn (£1,38bn) in 1975 and has been its c.e.o. since 2001.

 

[Joe_5859]

That separation was probably long overdue.