Germany Cardinal Warns German Church From Becoming "National Church"
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At the end of the Corpus Christi procession (May 31) he stressed that Protestant Communion is “a matter of life and death” as it is about Christ, the Church and the eternal life.
Woelki underlined that Germany is "not an island“, "We are not a national church. We are part of the large, universal Church.“
Many doubt that this is true. The disintegrating "Catholic" Church in Germany has very little in common, for instance, with the neighbouring Catholic Church in Poland.
Distributing Holy Communion to Protestants has been practiced in Germany for decades.
Picture: Rainer Maria Woelki, © Raimond Spekking, CC BY-SA, #newsKcqqpliiow