German Archbishop sees growing "Catholic-phobia"

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11 Feb 2013, 10:25 am

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Archbishop Meisner sees growing 'Catholic-phobia'

Cologne’s Archbishop Joachim Meisner has complained of a growing “Catholic-phobia” in Germany in the wake of two negative incidents involving the Church.

Meisner’s archdiocese confirmed that he recently wrote a letter to all priests and lay workers serving under him.

“In the past few weeks, the Church in Cologne has experienced a public opinion storm unlike anything I’ve every seen in my years as bishop,” he wrote, according to the Kölner Stadtanzeiger newspaper.

Oh, the poor little lamb. Bless Joachim's poor little cotton socks. He's seeing that the public are finally turning against him, his wretched church and its wretched, hypocritical standards of behaviour and so he's tried to jump on the Islamists' bandwagon.

Catholicophobia? Bring it on, baby, bring it on. :)



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11 Feb 2013, 10:50 am

There was an essential point on people officially leaving the church and that was the two years, when the catholic church completely failed to handle issues of sexual harassment in an border school around 1970-1980. There has been no excuse for these doings, there has been no help for the victims, and the offenders were moved in positions without further contact to children.

This is not as people expect these things to be handled in the 21 century. If catholic church wants to stay in the last centuries, its their decision, but then they must not wonder, why they are more and more alone.



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11 Feb 2013, 11:00 am

I hope this is a sign of people leaving religion behind.



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11 Feb 2013, 11:05 am

hadapurpura wrote:
I hope this is a sign of people leaving religion behind.


I do hope so. Perhaps people are developing religionophobia!



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11 Feb 2013, 11:11 am

Tequila wrote:
hadapurpura wrote:
I hope this is a sign of people leaving religion behind.


I do hope so. Perhaps people are developing religionophobia!


Now this would be the ideal scenario.