Friday, September 9, 2011

German church head backs communion for divorcees

The Tablet
Sept 9, 2011

Three weeks before the Pope is due to visit Germany, the President of the German bishops' conference, Archbishop Robert Zollitsch of Freiburg, has come out in favour of discussing the issue of communion for remarried divorcees. Archbishop Zollitsch told Die Zeit: "We are all faced with the problem of how we can help people in whose lives certain things have gone wrong and that includes a wrecked marriage ... This is a very serious problem but I really think that we will move forward on the issue of remarried divorcees within my lifetime." Cardinal Meisner of Cologne and the apostolic nuncio in Germany, Archbishop Jean-Claude Perisset, immediately distanced themselves from Archbishop Zollitsch.

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