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Passau / Tübingen (dpa) - Passau Bishop Stefan Oster has rejected criticism of his statements about Catholic media and theologians at German universities.
"The alleged demand to take a closer look at the Catholic media and theology professors in Germany is imputed to me," he told the German press agency.
"I did not raise such a statement, rather I see the need to have a debate about crossing borders."
In the "Passauer Neue Presse" (PNP) he spoke of an "irresponsible exacerbation of the debate".
The current reason for his remarks 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 had then initiated a discussion in a post on his homepage about which Catholic media are financed with church taxes and who is allowed to teach theology at the university.
The bishops had a «joint responsibility for who is allowed to teach Catholic theology in our faculties», he wrote.
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In addition, the bishops enabled «a big stage on which we ourselves (at least I feel that we are meant to be) can be described as“ racists ”- without raising great contradictions or without an editorial team considering all the journalistic freedom that is so gladly granted. what it produces there ».
That is "almost grotesque".
Reformers sharply criticized him for his statements and see them as an attempt to torpedo the current reform movement “Synodal Way”.
The “PNP” said Oster that he was “really very concerned about the general situation and the culture of debate”.
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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