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Passau / Tübingen (dpa) - The Bishop of Passau, Stefan Oster, calls for a discussion about which Catholic media are financed with church taxes and who is allowed to teach theology at the university.
The current occasion is a statement by the Tübingen theologian Johanna Rahner on equal rights for women in the church: Anyone who does not actively oppose discrimination is "a racist".
Church media had also reported about it.
Oster criticized this on his homepage and called for consequences.
"Anyway, I think it's worth a debate."
The Bishop of Passau is considered to be decidedly conservative in the current reform debate within the church.
Oster described the situation as “almost grotesque”: “We bishops, who actually have a special responsibility for Catholic doctrine and have solemnly promised this, enable the use of church taxes to finance certain media through our consent and thus enable a big stage , on which we ourselves (at least I feel that we mean myself) can be described as “racists” - without a lot of contradiction or without an editorial team considering what they are producing, despite all the journalistic freedom they enjoy. "
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Rahner was a speaker at a women's forum in the Rottenburg-Stuttgart diocese on Saturday.
The diocesan council and the council of priests of the diocese had quoted these statements on the Internet in their communication for the event.
From Oster's point of view, Catholic theologians should take a closer look: "We bishops also share responsibility for who is allowed to teach Catholic theology in our faculties."
In the Roman Catholic Church, theology professors - just like religious teachers in schools - must have a teaching permit, the so-called Missio canonica.
It can also be withdrawn from them.
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Oster sees the current reform debate on issues such as sexual morality, celibacy and the opening of the priesthood for women as a “disrespect for the teaching office, in which we bishops also have a special share”.
As an example, he cites the reactions from Germany to the Vatican's recent rejection of the blessing of homosexual partnerships.
"The most recent statement by the Roman Magisterium as a clarifying response to an important question was simply dismissed by large parts of the Church in our country," criticized Oster.
«As if those who deal with the preparation of such texts in Rome, including the Pope who approves him, were all people whose horizons were by no means wider and wider, but in any case narrower and smaller than all those who were have long wanted what they call «further development». "
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Homepage Stefan Oster
Report on statements by Rahner
Communication from the Diocesan Council and the Council of Priests Rottenburg-Stuttgart to the women's forum with quotations from the theologian Rahner