Stuttgart (kath.net/KNA) The traditional Society of St. Pius X is calling upon "Catholics true to Tradition", not to pay any more Church-tax and to give the money instead to 'those works which are true to Tradition and the Church'. In the March edition of their "Bulletin" there is a form with which a person can declare their 'Exit from the Church'.
In clairification, it is specified that it is limited to leaving "soley and exclusively the Church as public and legal entity". The reason they give is the "abuse of Church-tax money", which is used "for the destruction of the Faith of the Church".
A large part of the money is used for that, "to pay each of the lay organizations, counsellors and functionaries who are basically destroying the Church," it says. The money should be applied instead "to those works which remain true to Tradition and therefore to continuing the building of the Church."
The Society of St. Pius X bases itself in its recommendation to exit on Rome. In the eight page dossier of the Stuttgart published "Bulletin" appears under the heading "Remain Catholic Without Church-tax" referernces a clarification of the Papal Council for Legal Documents, according to which it clarifies that exit from the Church according to state recognition does not result in excommunication, therefore suffices for being stripped of all rights in the Church. This 2006 "Clarification" the German Bishops refused to obey.
The President of the German Bishops' Conference, Archbishop Robert Zollitsch, briefly explained that the German Catholic Bishops are in "discussions at this point with Rome". Zollitsch is confident, "that we we will come to a way of going forward that will be bearable for everyone."
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