{"id":7286,"date":"2011-01-24T08:25:38","date_gmt":"2011-01-24T14:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/?p=7286"},"modified":"2011-01-24T08:26:41","modified_gmt":"2011-01-24T14:26:41","slug":"unrest-in-german-catholic-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2011\/01\/24\/unrest-in-german-catholic-church\/","title":{"rendered":"Unrest in German Catholic Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Benedict is scheduled to visit his homeland, Germany, this coming September. No doubt the German Catholic church will be in the headlines between now and then.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, eight prominent politicians of the Christian Democratic Union (Angela Merkel&#8217;s party) <a href=\"http:\/\/in.reuters.com\/article\/idINIndia-54322320110122\" target=\"_blank\">called on the bishops<\/a> work for the admission of married men to the priesthood.<\/p>\n<p>But on Saturday, <em>Der Spiegel<\/em> journalist Matthias Matussek <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/politik\/deutschland\/0,1518,741053,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">published a critique<\/a> online of these politicians. \u201cCertain circles and levels of Catholics, of whom the Pope spoke in his book <em>The Light of the World<\/em>, are just waiting to strike at him.\u201d \u201cIt is always bewildering, how ready these \u2018certain circles\u2019 in the Church are to capitulate to the demands of modernity. They genuflect before it. Precisely in an era of watered down wellness religiosity and Protestant notions of taking time for reconsidering, one can only wish the Catholic Church had full pride in its tradition, full resistance to the world and steadfastness. Without a doubt, celibacy is a part of this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, the former abbot of St. Boniface Abbey in Munich, Odilo Lechner,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.abendzeitung.de\/muenchen\/242962\" target=\"_blank\">took the politicians&#8217; side<\/a>. Celibacy is a great value and was the right decision for him, he said, but celibacy should not outweigh the higher value of providing for those communities, increasing in number, in which it is no longer possible to have Sunday Mass because of the shortage of priests.<\/p>\n<p>It is estimated that 2\/3 of Catholic parishes in Germany will be without a resident pastor by 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, eight prominent politicians of the Christian Democratic Union (Angela Merkel&#8217;s party) called on the bishops work for the admission of married men to the priesthood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[388],"class_list":["post-7286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ordained-ministry","tag-germany"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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