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Conservative Catholics see an “aggressive mood” against their church and a campaign against the former Pope Benedict XVI.
“The attacks against the Catholic Church are directed against outstanding representatives.
They are morally disqualified and exploited with the aim of creating a “different church”, ”said a statement by the Forum of German Catholics on Wednesday.
The association describes itself as "loyal to the Pope and the Church".
The declaration is aimed at a book by the ex-nun Doris Reisinger and the director Christoph Röhl, entitled “Only the truth saves.
The abuse in the Catholic Church and the Ratzinger system ”has been on the market since this week.
The authors draw the German Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger and later Pope Benedict XVI.
as a figure who was largely responsible for a system that ignored victims and placed the reputation of the church above everything.
"Joseph Ratzinger was not a hero," says the book.
Reisinger and Röhl criticize, for example, that he did not speak up when abuse and violence became known to the Regensburg cathedral sparrows.
The choir was led for decades by his late brother Georg Ratzinger.
Otherwise they accuse the Pope emeritus of having remained inactive in several cases.
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The forum does not share this opinion.
“The Forum of German Catholics speaks Benedict XVI.
expresses his undivided trust and thanks him for his efforts to uncover the sexual abuse cases, ”the statement said.
The 93-year-old now lives in the Mater Ecclesiae monastery in the Vatican.
He gave up his post as Pope in February 2013.
Less than two weeks later, Pope Francis from Argentina succeeded him.