German Liberal Archbishop Zollitsch Charged in Abuse

This must certainly be payback for stabbing Bishop Mixa of Augsburg in the back, or at least, this is well deserved; it's poetic justice. We certainly hope that the head of the German Bishop's Conference expresses remorse for letting Bishop Mixa go down over an empty accusation of sexual abuse and engaging in what was a number of years ago a normal way of educating students with corporal punishment.

You should also note the comparative kid gloves treatment being meted out to Cardinal Mahony in the United States, owing perhaps to Germany's traditional animus against the Catholic Church which criminals of ++Mahony's mind in Germany give provide them with ammunition.


Wednesday, 2 June 2010

[RTE] Germany's top Catholic bishop has been charged with aiding and abetting a known abuser by allowing him to get a new job in a German parish.

Robert Zollitsch, head of the German Bishops' Conference and archbishop of Freiburg, was accused by prosecutors in Freiburg in southwest Germany of permitting a priest accused of child abuse in the 1960s to be reappointed to a parish job in 1987.

However the Church in Freiburg accused the prosecutors and media of 'sensationalism' by talking of charges of 'aiding and abetting sexual abuse' against the 71-year-old archbishop and denied that the appointment was his direct responsibility.

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Archbishop Zollitsch, of course, for those who do not know has been explicitly hostile to Tradition, so his inevitable resignation won't be a sad thing, it won't be a bad thing, here at the Remnant by Michael Matt,

Never mind that the head of the German Bishops Conference, Bishop Zollitsch, recently told Meinhard Schmidt-Degenhard in an interview on German television that the death of Jesus Christ was not a redemptive act of God to liberate human beings from the bondage of sin. “Christ did not die,” argued the bishop “for the sins of the people as if God had provided a sacrificial offering, like a scapegoat.” No, Jesus offered only “solidarity” with the poor and suffering.

And here we all thought Christ was the sacrificial lamb, crucified on the altar of the Cross in order to redeem sinful men and reopen the gates of Heaven! What were we thinking?

Well, at least the bishop didn’t question the number of victims of the Holocaust or anything serious like that. Sure, back in February of 2008, he did claim that priestly celibacy should be voluntary and is not “theologically necessary”; and it’s true that he is in favor of homosexual civil unions; but the really important thing is that Bishop Zollitsch is in “full communion with Rome”. Right?

Of course, some of ++Zollitsch's concerns took place over problems with SSPX ordinations which were happening last year. One wonders if he won't be too preoccupied to take issue about them again this year; more later.