Cardinal: German Church Is "Liberal Party" More Than Christian Reality
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Duka explains that “abuse is not a crime of the Church, it is a crime of people.” He has doubts about abuse reports “that go back 100 years,” and explains that a bishop is not a judge and not a policeman. Therefore homosex cases must be entrusted to the criminal justice.
While Ratzinger explains increased abuses with the moral collapse of the '68 [= Vatican II], the Germans plan is to use the same abuses to present this collapse as new moral norm, Duka says. For him, the German Synod is not a movement of the universal Church because the Germans act "as if the Church is not founded by Jesus Christ and his Apostles, but rather see it as a business or a political party.”
Accordingly, the German Synod seems “more like a liberal party than a Christian reality.”
Picture: Dominik Duka © wikicommons, CC BY-NC-SA, #newsPjjlvwkxzd
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