Ravensburg (kath.net/KNA) Curial Archbishop Georg Gänswein has in his own words, no ambitions to occupy a German diocese. "Do you think that a cathedral chapter should my name ever appear there, would choose me? Hardly likely. This also does not offend me," said the Prefect of the Papal Household and personal secretary of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI. on Monday for the "Schwäbische Zeitung" in Ravensburg. "The ecclesiastical establishment has a negative image of me. I do not belong among their favorites."
As a longtime employee of the CDF, as secretary of Cardinal Ratzinger and Pope Benedict, he obviously bears a "mark of Cain" Black Forest native Gänswein added. "This has somehow managed to have me branded in public as a right winger or hardliner, without naming for offering concrete examples." Conversely, "the cathedral chapters are indeed not just known for having the highest loyalty towards Rome."
In the Catholic Church in Germany, the cathedral chapters outside Bavaria have some say in the selection of bishops.
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Photo Archbishop Gänswein (c) kath.net/Petra Lorleberg
He'll very quickly be elevated to Cardinal by the next Pope in a few years!
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Damian Malliapalli
'Altar Girls'...utterly pathetic.
ReplyDeleteThe Catholic Church has been the leader in trangendering.
ReplyDelete"Girl" altar boy is more appropriate
ReplyDeleteGreat observation!!Forgive my lack of modern gender fluidity awareness.
ReplyDeleteTruly appalling!
Deletechicks are good as female altar boyz........during the collect, the more nubile ones can use their rack as a bookrack!
DeleteYes, the tall lacy boy with the purple beanie, shawl and playing with himself cuts a very striking figure as King of the Kids.
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