German Bishops Elect New President

Limburg Bishop Georg Bätzing, 58, is the new president of the German bishops’ conference.

In his New Year’s Eve sermon, Bätzing labeled the exclusion of women from Holy Orders “unjust.”

He believes celibacy should become “optional.”

Bätzing backed gay-blesser Jesuit Ansgar Wucherpfennig as the rector of Frankfurt Sankt Georgen College.

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