Carlo Acutis: Swiss Bishops' News Portal Calls Relics "Pure Perversion"

On 23 July, a certain Barbara Ludwig published on the news portal of the German-speaking Swiss bishops (kath.ch) an angry stunt against the relics of Carlo Acutis, an Italian teenager who died of leukaemia in 2006 and was beatified by Francis in 2020.

The occasion was a pilgrimage with a heart relic of Acutis through Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium.

Last Sunday, more than 500 faithful were blessed with the relic during a Eucharist presided over at the Church of the Holy Spirit in Munich.

Hiding behind unqualified Facebook comments (sic), Ludwig calls the relics "corpse snatching" and "perverse fetishism", adding that Catholics have a "fundamentally strange preference for corpses and body parts".

According to Ludwig's trusted experts, this "perverse fetishism" fits in with the "religion of suffering and death".

Abandoning any critical journalism, Ludwig simply repeats the rantings of others and speaks of "this madness for relics" which is supposedly more effective than the "so-called" (Ludwig) Eucharistic blessing.

Ludwig repeats defamations that the blessing of the relic was "pure perversion", that it was "more than distasteful" and that Jesus didn't stay in the tomb to avoid "the desecration of his body".

All this from a website that claims to act "on behalf of the Roman Catholic Church in Switzerland".

The so-called "Roman Catholic Church in Switzerland" (including kath.ch) would collapse within weeks if it were not kept artificially alive by the church tax.

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