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Tübingen / Bonn / Passau (dpa) - In the dispute over a comparison between discrimination against women in the church and racism, the chairman of the German Bishops' Conference (DBK), Georg Bätzing, asked the Tübingen theologian Johanna Rahner to withdraw her controversial sentence.
"With the pointed statement" But if you do not want to change anything, you are nothing more than a racist ", Prof. Rahner has exaggerated, and that damages a factual debate," tweeted Bätzing on Friday.
Theological questions would continue to have to be raised primarily with theological arguments.
"Otherwise we will not get any further - and we will not stay on the path together as a church," wrote Bätzing.
"In this way it would be good if Prof. Rahner could take back the pointed sentence."
At the beginning of the week, the Bishop of Passau, Stefan Oster, took the sentence from Rahner, which had fallen at a women's forum in the Rottenburg-Stuttgart diocese over the weekend, to call for a debate about who is allowed to teach theology at German universities and which media are supported with church taxes.
He saw a line crossed.
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«Women cannot do away with their discrimination in the Catholic Church themselves;
this is the responsibility of men, ”said Rahner after Oster's criticism when asked by the German press agency.
Those who see the discrimination against women and do not take action against it behave racistly like those whites who do not campaign against discrimination against blacks.
The theologian rejected Bishop Bätzing's criticism.
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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
Lecture by the theologian Rahner