The chairman of the diocesan council in the Archdiocese of Cologne, Tim Kurzbach, considers the chance of changes after Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki's time off to be low. With real crisis management it is not far away, said the Lord Mayor of Solingen and SPD politician the "Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger" (Saturday). "Instead, everything is administered and pious sauce is poured over everything - until the day of Woelki's return."
Cologne - As the temporary administrator of the archdiocese during the break, at least someone from outside should have been appointed, said Kurzbach.
Instead, Pope Francis preferred a purely internal solution and appointed Cologne Auxiliary Bishop Rudolf Steinhäuser as administrator.
“Typically Cologne, even if it was decided in Rome.
Carry on as if nothing had happened - and in the end it's always "jot jejange", "said Kurzbach.
But people have long since recognized what is being played here.
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The chairman of the German Bishops 'Conference, Georg Bätzing, expressed understanding for the criticism of Pope Francis' decision to keep Hamburg's Archbishop Stefan Heße in office.
"I can understand that really well," said Bätzing on Monday at the start of the autumn plenary meeting of the German Bishops' Conference in Fulda.
The Pope had turned down Heße's offer of resignation last week.
Bätzing expresses understanding for criticism of the Heße decision
Woelki had taken a break this week until the beginning of March.
The relationship between him and the diocesan council - the body of the laity, the non-clergy - is considered broken.
The largest German diocese has been in crisis since Woelki decided a year ago not to publish an opinion on how to deal with allegations of abuse due to legal concerns.
It was temporarily thought possible that the Pope would recall the Archbishop of Cologne, but in September the Vatican announced that Woelki would remain in office despite “big mistakes”.
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