Germany: Ecumenical Convention Uses Body of Christ as Toy for Act of Defiance
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The two presidents of the Convention made a start with a childish act of defiance. The President of the Central Committee of German Catholics, Thomas Sternberg, took part in the Protestant service and ate bread there. The Protestant President, Bettina Limperg, the president of the Federal Supreme Court in Karlsruhe, sacrilegiously took the Body of Christ at a mass in Frankfurt Cathedral the same evening (pictured).
The celebrant of the mass, pro-homosex Father Johannes zu Eltz, "apologised" to Protestants by insulting the Church with the gratuitous claim that the Protestants had to struggle under the "arrogance" and "efforts of demarcation" from the Catholic side: "I ask forgiveness for this and thank you for your forbearance."
The president of the German bishops, Limburg's Georg Bätzing, sat in the mass and picked up communion in the hand.
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