Cardinal Reinhard Marx has said that he cannot rule out asking Pope Francis to accept his resignation for a second time.
The Catholic archbishop of Munich and Freising discussed the possibility of a second resignation offer in a letter issued on July 23. He read out in churches in the archdiocese at the weekend, reported CNA Deutsch, CNA’s German-language news partner.
“I do not understand my service as a bishop as an office that belongs to me and that I have to defend, but as a mission for the people of this archdiocese and as a service to the unity of the Church,” he wrote.