{"id":7047,"date":"2004-07-09T08:22:42","date_gmt":"2004-07-09T08:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2004\/07\/german_troubles.html"},"modified":"2004-07-09T08:22:42","modified_gmt":"2004-07-09T08:22:42","slug":"german_troubles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2004\/07\/german_troubles.html","title":{"rendered":"German troubles"},"content":{"rendered":"

And yet again from the Tablet, one German cardinal strongly critiques another.<\/a><\/p>\n

Germany\u2019s leading conservative cardinal has bitterly criticised Cardinal Karl Lehmann, the Archbishop of Mainz, for allowing dissident theologians to express their views at last month\u2019s annual Katholikentag conference.<\/p>\n

Cardinal Joachim Meisner, Archbishop of Cologne, criticised Lehmann, who is the president of the German bishops\u2019 conference, in a hard-hitting article for the Cologne diocesan newspaper. Cardinal Meisner accused Lehmann of liberalism and excessive doctrinal tolerance, which he claims was manifested at the conference in Ulm. Meisner is forming a group of conservative priests and lay people together to denounce liberalism in the German Church. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Can you even imagine one US prelate strongly and openly criticizing another? I can’t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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