German Synod and Nazism - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Sun, 09 Oct 2022 11:29:43 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg German Synod and Nazism - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 German Synod and Nazism: Cardinal Koch apologises https://cathnews.co.nz/2022/10/10/german-synod-and-nazism-cardinal-koch-apologises/ Mon, 10 Oct 2022 06:51:29 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=152831 Cardinal Kurt Koch, a top Vatican official, has met with one of Germany's leading Catholic bishops and has "apologised" to "all those who felt offended" by a parallel he recently drew between the methods used by the country's Synodal Path and the theories of a historic pro-Nazi Lutheran group. The closed-door meeting between the Swiss Read more

German Synod and Nazism: Cardinal Koch apologises... Read more]]> Cardinal Kurt Koch, a top Vatican official, has met with one of Germany's leading Catholic bishops and has "apologised" to "all those who felt offended" by a parallel he recently drew between the methods used by the country's Synodal Path and the theories of a historic pro-Nazi Lutheran group.

The closed-door meeting between the Swiss cardinal and Bishop Georg Bätzing, president of the German Bishops' Conference (DBK), took place on Wednesday in Rome, according to a DBK communique.

The encounter between the two prelates was meant to put an end to a controversy that erupted on September 29 when the conservative German weekly Tagespost published an interview with the 72-year-old cardinal.

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