Cardinal Reinhard Marx
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“Some priests would be better off if they were married”
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“Are we a demolition squad now? Am I a winding-up bishop?” Cardinal Reinhard Marx during an interview in Munich’s Palais Holnstein.
(Photo: Alessandra Schellnegger)
Cardinal Reinhard Marx advocates the abolition of compulsory celibacy. What if all the priests get married? A fortiori a sign that it doesn’t work well that way. A conversation about male societies, priestesses and Catholic sexual morality.
Interview by Bernd Kastner,
Nicolas Richter and Annette Zoch
Archbishop Cardinal Reinhard Marx welcomes in the Palais Holnstein, his official residence in the center of Munich. Passing a bust of Benedict, we enter a large meeting room. Under the eyes of the Archbishops of Munich, painted in oil, you can take off your coats beforehand. Almost two weeks ago, the law firm Westpfahl Spilker Wastl published the abuse report for the archdiocese. Marx, 68, commissioned it.
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