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Passau / Tübingen (dpa) - The Catholic reform movement “We are Church” accuses Passau Bishop Stefan Oster of “a threat to theologians who think differently and also to Catholic media who are prepared to talk”.
Oster had called 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.
"It is outrageous when he threatens unpopular people with the withdrawal of their academic license to teach and unpopular media with the withdrawal of financial resources," said "We are Church" on Tuesday.
It is “revealing” that the Bishop of Passau expressed himself in this way in the middle of the “Synodal Way” reform process.
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"Instead of insisting on historically outdated dogmatizations and episcopal positions of power, he should rather face the future-oriented theological debate, as it is urgently needed in the Roman Catholic Church and which Pope Francis has repeatedly encouraged," the message said.
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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