ABOUT THE CHURCH AND THE VATICAN

*rant alert*

This round table was created to prevent sexual abuse of children ‘throughout society'. A very noble, but also a very impossible task.
Surely, the main institutions will be there and they will be in the spot-light. Mostly, of course, the Catholic Church. The protestants are simply too boring and too conform to be concerned about.
The main part is the failure inside families. This problem will not be solved. I assume it will get bigger. Considering the huge and growing amount of single parents and patchwork families we have in his country.
Also, the huge amount of children given up for day-care when they're under one, or two years old won’t make it better. The systematic devaluation of families.... and… and… and...
It would certainly bust this format to go and on about what's wrong with this country...
I do think, in this particular case, it was a good move by Zollitsch to refuse the plans for a 'separate' round table - exclusively reserved for the Catholic Church (!!!).



As for the resignation of Bishop Mixa: words fail me on that one.
He was successfully brought down by the media. Surely, he could have taken the Georg Ratzinger approach and admitted to have occasionally disciplined a child by slapping it in the face and he could have apologized for it in a sincere, heartfelt way (as we all know – slapping was a very common and standard measure back then –> irony: tens-of-thousands of teachers should now step up an apologize). His initial denial to have done so, mixed with the bias, relentless, intentionally incorrect reporting by our own version of 'Hells Bible' -> SZ, gave it a good push.

Considering, that the original accusation was brutally mistreating orphans when he was Priest of Schrobenhausen, by beating them with objects such as carpet beaters, or by punching them with his fist, he is now taken down for first denying to have used physical violence, and then admitting to have occasionally slapped a child.

I do assume his media adviser (who has now been sacked) should have done a better job handling this matter and/or advising the Bishop to simply lay out the facts.
None of those severe punishment accusations have been proved. None of the ‘victims’ have agreed to a meeting with Mixa to explain their point of view. Acc. to SZ, there are affidavits, but they were not given to a court, or to a laywer, but to a newspaper!!!?

And then!!! The worst of all!!! Zollitsch and Marx (!!!) publically asked Mixa to ‘take some time off’. Not during quiet consultations in a private meeting, but in public!! And in the press!! They handed him over to the frenzied mob on a silver platter!



You have NO idea how disappointed I am in Archbsp. Marx. He's due to get his red hat this year. What kind of an example is he giving to young Bishops? Caving in to the pressure and handing his brother in faith and in office over to a bunch of atheists? What’s his goal? Trying to soothe the media? That's just inexcusable!

Bishop Mixa was also the official Catholic Military Bishop of the German Army, which is engaged in heavy fighting in Afghanistan, and which is sending home dead soldiers on almost weekly basis.
The secretary of defense - K.T.- zu Guttenberg - has finally managed to make people accept that our soldiers are not merely keeping peace, but they’re at war with the Taliban.
Many soldiers have spoken up and are furious about having lost ‘their’ pastor, whom they had the highest regards for. I seriously hope that there will be a quick solution for them! You can’t leave them in the field with the knowledge that they’re without a shepherd!

Now, we have members of the ultra leftist German media with the taste of first blood on their tongues. Who’s going to be next? Mons. Müller??

And! Now we have politicians (!!) advising the Pope on whom/or what he should appoint.
One statement was: “I hope it will be liberal Bishop like Mons. Marx of Munich!” O M G !!!!!!!

I really hope that B16 will go for the worst case scenario and appoint the most conservative, outspoken, media savvy, educated, fearless, in-your-face candidate to the chair of St. Ulrich. Preferably a member of a rather conservative order - Opus Dei would be the best!!
Nothing to lose at the moment, anyway!!

Here is an interesting article about a piece in ‘Stern’ – showing the real fear of the press, and disclosing their real agenda!

www.kath.net/detail.php?id=26471

One good thing is: many people are being awakened out of their comfortable slumber to finally get a taste of reality!
When even members of the Supreme Court are warning against anti-Christian tendencies in our society, when Altars are torched and when forums are spilling over with pure hate and ignorance, it’s time to wake up and it’s time to stand up and fight!
Many are prepared to do so. And many of them are very young, educated and orthodox and they love their Pope and the true, non-diluted catholic faith with a passion!!

Germans do have a tendency for mass hysteria. That's the scary part!




Sorry I didn't get to see this earlier. I have been inhabiting the BENEDICT thread to the exclusion of others,,, Thanks for your observations on how things stand in Germany about all this sound and fury.

I, too, was rather surprised at how Mons. Mixa was apparently sidelined without the usual 'fraternal courtey' that bishops owe each other, particularly when one of them is in trouble. Zollitsch and company showed the same surprising lack of courtesy as did Fr. Lombardi with Cardinal Castrillon, as I observe in the next post.

The Norwegians and the Belgians were more considerate of their disgraced bishops, giving them a chance to make their statements along with or slightly ahead of their respective bishops' conference announcements.

It's not very Christian to treat sinners or unpopular persons like instant pariahs, and I don't understand why some men of God are setting such a bad example.... It's sad when their first criteria seems to be 'What will the media think?' of 'Let's not give the media more ammunition to use' not 'What would Jesus do?"....


TERESA