Tag: Switzerland

Swiss Vicar General Warns of Massive Ecumenical Setback

“Through the bonds of baptism, all are members of the one Church of Jesus Christ. At the Table of the Lord, at least in confessionally mixed marriages, this unity should not continue to lead down separate paths.”

March 5, 2014
German Missal Translation: “Collapsed”

Two things led the German bishops to reject the new missal: the recent debacle of a failed translation of the burial rites, and a change of pope.

October 10, 2013
Under Pressure, Swiss Catholic Priests Reject Ecumenical Eucharistic Celebration

Tomorrow the Catholic bishops of Basel, Chur, and St. Gall will meet in Rome with the prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Archbishop Gerhard Müller.

June 30, 2013
Renovation of Famous Cathedral of St. Gall, Switzerland, Encounters Opposition – UPDATED 2-24

Moving the altar nearly in the middle under the cupola and placing a golden ring above it was the plan of the London architectural firm “Caruso St. John Architects.”

February 22, 2013
Swiss Bishop Sees Urgent Need for Reform of Roman Curia

“Sometimes the curial offices worry about things that simply are not their beer.” – Bishop Felix Gmür of Basel

February 17, 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
Communion for the remarried: Swiss clergy and laity disobey, and head of German bishops calls for change in discipline

Forty priests and pastoral ministers from the Diocese of St. Gall, Switzerland, have issued a statement that they will continue to offer communion to the divorced and remarried.

May 16, 2012
Update on petitions in German-speaking countries

As of March 2nd, 238 theology professors in German-speaking countries, 288 clergymen of the diocese of Freiburg, and 287 religion teachers in Germany have signed on to the statement calling for massive reforms in the Roman Catholic Church.

March 2, 2011
German-language translation: Delay and controversy

The former abbot of Einsiedeln, Georg Holzherr, stated that the Vatican is betraying the spirit of the Second Vatican Council with the commission Ecclesia celebrans. German-language translation work was far advanced at the end of the 1990s, only to land in the archives.

February 24, 2011