Friday, July 26, 2024

Catholic Priest in Germany Fires Altar Boy Over Political Affiliation

Edit: no, he wasn’t a Communist, or even an avowed member of NSDAP but the much more controlled and domesticated AfD.

The aggrieved acolyte is seeking legal redress, while the diocese or Paderborn is standing by its pastor’s most unpastoral, rigid and intransigent decision.

 CNA Newsroom, Jul 25, 2024 / 10:51 am

[Catholic Snooze Network] A Catholic priest in Germany has barred an altar server and lector from his duties because he works for the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party. According to areport by CNA Deutsch, CNA’s German-language news partner, the party has announced legal steps in response, but the archdiocese is backing the priest’s decision.

In early July, parish priest Father Ralf Dunker informed 20-year-old Julian-Bert Schäfer that he could no longer serve as an altar server, lector, and organist in the Parish of St. Francis of Assisi in Hamm in northwestern Germany. Dunker cited Schäfer’s active involvement with the AfD as incompatible with these volunteer duties.

While polling has shown the AfD as thesecond most popular party in Germany, the party is variously described in the media as a populist, right-wing, or far-right extremist outfit. 

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

I smell a jew in the woodpile.

David H. Goldfarb said...

If the nazi punk wanted to continue dressing up and playing church, he should’ve offered to blow the padre.

Anonymous said...

David, he’d have more luck asking a Rabbi. They’re the ones always gnoshing on the Johnsons of little boys.

Jeff Brine said...

True. Child molestation is an art form with those guys. But only if they are goyim children. No limits on them.

Myron Rindsberg said...

Jeff & Anon:

Those have to be the biggest anti-Semitic lies ever dumped in this cyber-landfill.

Next time , have the balls to leave you real names. Or ,better yet, your mailing addresses

Anonymous said...

https://hermanlaw.com/practices/clergy/judaism/

Anonymous said...

Maybe the good Father needs to sit down and enjoy a Hamm's.

Barnum said...

No Schaefer's for Fr. Ralf, though.

Jeff Brine said...

Why? Are you going to kill me with a jewish space laser?