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Criticism of Pope Benedict from German-speaking Catholics has refused to die down . . . “No calm after the storm” wrote Catholic weekly Rheinischer Merkur in an editorial on Thursday, referring to the Vatican lifting excommunications of four traditionalist bishops, including, Richard Williamson, who denies the extent of the Holocaust and says there were no gas chambers. “A powerful hurricane has just swept through the Catholic Church and its gale-force winds left especially deep marks in Germany,” it said. . . .
[Despite the papal meeting with Jews and unsigned statement of the Secretary of State on the Holocaust] dissent lingers in the German-speaking countries . . . “German bishops have a heightened sensibility . . .” said Anja Middelbeck-Varwich of Berlin’s Seminar for Catholic Theology. “Feelings run especially high as the pope is German,” she told Reuters, adding that the row fed into irritation over the pope’s apparent reluctance to fully embrace ecumenism and over a speech in Regensburg in 2006 which angered Muslims.
In Austria, Salzburg Archbishop Alois Kothgasser warned . . . against turning the Church from an open organisation to into a narrow group of obedient faithful, a veiled jab at Benedict who once said this was its future.
In related news, the German-speaking Bishops of Austria have issued a statement from their crisis meeting which addresses among other things the attitude they seek to have to future bishop appointments by the pope. The original German statement is here
diepresse.com/home/panorama/religion/453074/index.do?direct=452841
If you can’t read German, a translation is available here
Pastoral Letter of the Austrian Bishops
with some commentary here
Austrian Bishops in open revolt
Criticism of Pope Benedict from German-speaking Catholics has refused to die down . . . “No calm after the storm” wrote Catholic weekly Rheinischer Merkur in an editorial on Thursday, referring to the Vatican lifting excommunications of four traditionalist bishops, including, Richard Williamson, who denies the extent of the Holocaust and says there were no gas chambers. “A powerful hurricane has just swept through the Catholic Church and its gale-force winds left especially deep marks in Germany,” it said. . . .
[Despite the papal meeting with Jews and unsigned statement of the Secretary of State on the Holocaust] dissent lingers in the German-speaking countries . . . “German bishops have a heightened sensibility . . .” said Anja Middelbeck-Varwich of Berlin’s Seminar for Catholic Theology. “Feelings run especially high as the pope is German,” she told Reuters, adding that the row fed into irritation over the pope’s apparent reluctance to fully embrace ecumenism and over a speech in Regensburg in 2006 which angered Muslims.
In Austria, Salzburg Archbishop Alois Kothgasser warned . . . against turning the Church from an open organisation to into a narrow group of obedient faithful, a veiled jab at Benedict who once said this was its future.
In related news, the German-speaking Bishops of Austria have issued a statement from their crisis meeting which addresses among other things the attitude they seek to have to future bishop appointments by the pope. The original German statement is here
diepresse.com/home/panorama/religion/453074/index.do?direct=452841
If you can’t read German, a translation is available here
Pastoral Letter of the Austrian Bishops
with some commentary here
Austrian Bishops in open revolt