Bishop Georg Bätzing (left) and Cardinal Kurt Koch / Maximilian von Lachner / Synodaler Weg // Paul Badde / EWTNCNA Newsroom, Oct 5, 2022 / 06:46 am (CNA).Following demands for an apology and a threat he might "file an official complaint with the Holy Father," the German Bishops Conference president met with a Vatican cardinal in Rome this week.Bishop Georg Bätzing sat down with Cardinal Kurt Koch on Oct. 4 to apparently clear the air over what the German Bätzing had called a "totally unacceptable gaffe" by the Vatican cardinal, who is a native of Switzerland and president of the Vatican s Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity.The exchange was the result of a disagreement over remarks involving "German Christians," Nazi ideology, and theological claims of a key document of the German Synodal Way."For Cardinal Koch and Bishop Bätzing, it is clear after the conversation that the theological debate, to which the cardinal wanted to contrib
Swiss Cardinal Kurt Koch apologized for offending people and said he never intended to imply that supporters of the German church’s Synodal Path were acting similar to a group of Christian supporters of the Nazis in the 1930s.
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