German Bishops-Backed Website Unwittingly Sends Up the Country’s Church

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It is a challenge to find an article on Katholisch.de that isn’t seemingly desperately pushing the narrative that the Church must change in some heterodox way, especially regarding sexual immorality

A quick glance at this week’s content on Katholisch.de — the German bishops’ conference-backed news website — and you will come across content that effectively parodies today’s dissenting German Church as its members push a radical heterodox agenda through its multi-year Synodal Path that many have warned could lead to schism.

Based in Bonn, where the bishops’ conference is headquartered, Katholisch.de bills itself as “the news and information portal of the Catholic Church in Germany” that “cooperates with the 27 German dioceses and other Church institutions.” Although not overtly part of the bishops’ conference, key conference officials are said to have considerable influence over its content.

First up is an article on a commentary penned by German theologian Hermann Häring, a former pupil and colleague of the late heterodox Swiss theologian Hans Küng, who blames the Christian doctrine of original sin for many ecclesiastical aberrations.

The article unapologetically airs Häring’s views, first published in the German magazine Christ in der Gegenwart, in which he writes that the Catholic Church has been “shaped by this dark, traumatizing view of man” that goes against the Christian image of man as having “undiminished freedom.”

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