2012-03-03 14:40:10

German Bishops' Conference ends plenary meeting


The president of the German bishops' conference this week welcomed progress in a national dialogue on the Catholic Church's future. Archbishop Robert Zollitsch said he hoped the dialogue would be advanced by the church's Katholikentag festival in May and a national eucharistic congress in 2013.
A March 1 bishops' conference statement said the dialogue was about "the challenge of social pluralism to the church and how best to demonstrate the church's public and charitable purposes.”
The head of Vatican Radio’s German Section, Jesuit Father Bernd Hagenkord, explained this dialogue has been in response to recent crises in the Church in Germany.
“After the crisis of abuse, after other crises, the financial crisis as well, the Church started about a year ago a process of dialogue, and meetings all over Germany,” he said.

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