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Public spat between German bishop, Swiss cardinal leads to private meeting in Rome

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 ....

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