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by bcadmin | Jan 30, 2022 | Bishop accountability, Catholic Church (Germany), Catholic News Service, Church in Europe, clergy sex abuse crisis, German bishops, German Cardinal Reinhard Marx, Munich, News, Pope Francis | 0 |
No other German bishop has dominated Catholic life in Germany as much in recent years as Cardinal Reinhard Marx, who announced he will stay on as archbishop of Munich and Freising.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 6, 2021 | Cardinal Bernard Law, Cardinal Marc Ouellet, Cardinals, clerical sexual abuse, Congregation for Bishops, German Cardinal Reinhard Marx, lead, Munich, News, News Analysis | 0 |
Cardinal Reinhard Marx of Munich has not resigned, because in the Catholic system bishops don’t get to resign of their own accord. They can submit their resignation to the pope – in fact, they’re required to do so at the age of 75 – but it’s always up to the pope whether to accept.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 6, 2021 | Bishop Georg Bätzing, Cardinal Jean-Claude Höllerich, Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki, Church in Europe, Father Hans Zollner, German Cardinal Reinhard Marx, lead, Munich, News | 0 |
Abuse scandals have exposed “systemic weaknesses in the church that also call for systemic responses. A purely legal review and administrative changes are not enough,” said Bishop Georg Bätzing of Limburg, noting that Marx’s decision was a “personal response” to the failures of the past.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 26, 2021 | Church in Europe, clerical sexual abuse, German Cardinal Reinhard Marx, Germany, lead, News, Reform, Sexual morality, Synod, synodal path, Women | 0 |
Critics charge that in the German “synodal path,” the suffering of abuse victims is being weaponized for ideological ends by forces seeking to revive old arguments in Catholicism over power and sex, trying to use the abuse crisis to justify profound changes in Catholic teaching and tradition.
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