Cardinal Reinhard Marx replaced his Friday evening sermon in Munich's Liebfrauendom with a tirade against the instruction of the Congregation of the Clergy on the leadership of parishes.
He garnished his rant with well-known mantras, all of which applicable to himself: "It is a little strange when a document comes from Rome without anybody discussion with us about it - is this a coexistence of the universal and particular Church, as one would wish? Not really”.
Marx misses "togetherness" and "listening to one another" and "going together": “One cannot simply proclaim something while the other has to follow, but we must listen to one another, learn with one another, absorb the experiences of the local Church - something I miss in the document that was published these days."
Marx recalls the "great unanimity" of the German Bishops' Conference in producing the text "Being Church Together": "One does not feel that something of that has been registered".
According to Marx, the instruction …More