Tag: Abbot Martin Werlen OSB

Abbot Martin Werlen on Church Reform, Tradition, and Being With One Another

“The future of the Church must concern all of us, not just Rome. If I were to expect from the Pope that he flip a switch and everything changes, we would more or less be in the same place as before. In the Church as a whole, a new culture of being with one another…

February 4, 2013
Swiss Abbot Harshly Criticizes Church Structures, Calls for Reform in the System of Naming Bishops

“In our church we have serious structural problems. The problem is that bishops achieve their position through this system, and consequently they have no interesting in questioning the current system. The church thus becomes a closed system. Perhaps it eventually has to collapse or fall apart before anything happens.” – Benedictine Abbot Peter von Sury

December 15, 2012

Abbot Martin Werlen on Church Reform, Tradition, and Being With One Another

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