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German cardinal questions the Catechism saying it is 'not set in stone'

‘I want to move Church teaching forward,’ the influential German cardinal said in a new interview.

As a german Catholic, I am against this heresy. This Cardinal needs to be excommunicated. 

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            Germany's most senior cleric has offered his resignation to Pope Francis. Munich's Cardinal Reinhard Marx said that he wanted to share responsibility for what he called the "catastrophe of sexual abuse" by members of the Catholic church. Marx has long been a leading voice in the call for church reforms. Those calls have been growing louder as sex abuse investigations revealed a decades-long cover-up by the clergy. Marx said investigations and reports of the past 10 years showed him there had not only been "a lot of personal failure and administrative errors," but "also institutional and systemic failure" within the Catholic Church. Recent discussions had shown "that some in the church do not want to acknowledge this element of co-responsibility and thus also complicity of the institution and are therefore opposed to any reform and renewal dialogue in connection with the abuse crisis," he wrote in a letter to the pope dated May 21 and published on Friday by his archdiocese in Munich. The archdiocese said in its press release on the issue that Pope Francis had since responded to Cardinal Marx, telling him that he could make the letter public, and  to remain in his role until he received an answer.

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Germany’s Largest Lay Group’s Call for Same – Sex Blessings Cardinal Reinhard Marx, President of the German Bishops' Conference, has "rebuked" the country's largest lay group, the Central Committee of German Catholics (ZdK), for its call for a change in Church teaching.

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Another Cardinal Not Fussed About (Civil) Gay Marriage

Another Cardinal Not Fussed About (Civil) Gay Marriage

Just last week it was Cardinal Schonborn saying to an Irish conference in preparation for the World Meeting of Families, that all families need protecting – including queer families. Also last week, another senior cardinal effectively acknowledged in a newspaper interview, that gay marriage is not a major issue for the Catholic Church. Cardinal Reinhardt Marx (more…)

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A Catholic Obligation for LGBT Apology

A Catholic Obligation for LGBT Apology

A notable and extremely welcome feature of last year’s family synod was the apology offered by the entire German speaking bishops’ small group to the gay and lesbian community, for the harm done to them by the church. That call was later repeated by Bishop Doyle of Northampton, on his return to the UK. Now, Cardinal Reinhard Marx of Munich and Freising, who is chairman of the German Catholic…

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Cardinal Reinhard Marx's homily from Monday June 4, 2012.

"Jesus came to renew God's covenant with Israel, and his Church is now the vineyard. God gave his vineyard to the modern scribes: the theologians, the priests, the bishops. Pope Benedict has said that, even as bishop of Rome, he is just a humble worker in God's vineyard."