For a surprise, it's a surprise.
One of the most powerful German bishops, cardinal of his state and close to Pope Francis - who had appointed him in his inner circle of government, the C9, to conceive the reform of the Church - Cardinal Reinhard Marx, archbishop of Munich and Freising (Germany) - and president of the German Bishops' Conference from 2014 to 2020 - submitted his resignation to the Pope.
The latter has not yet accepted it.
Official motive:
“the failure”
of the institutional German Church in its management of pedophilia cases, which the cardinal intends to endorse by this spectacular gesture while calling for a
“reform”
of the Church by
“the synodal way”
.
To read also:
Pedophilia: the bishops in special assembly
On Friday afternoon, the cardinal revealed during a press conference in his archdiocese that he had met the Pope in Rome on June 21 to tell him so.
Francois would have asked her to think again before deciding.
A telephone conversation followed.
The cardinal confirmed his willingness to leave
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