Who will begrudge His Eminence Walter. Card. Kasper a long long rest.
The Cardinal retires now from his position at the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of Christian Unity.
He is to be replaced by H.E. Kurt Koch, Bishop of Basel. Bishop Koch is made Archbishop. Perhaps later he will be a Cardinal.
Archbishop Koch is known to be in the theological orbit of Papa Ratzinger.
Hopefully Card. Kasper will have a good rest and not trouble himself with too much… writing.
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Very diplomatic farewell, Father Z.
Indeed. I liken his retirement to that of Cardinal Martini’s. Hopefully, he will keep a lower profile than Martini has done. May he have a long and quiet retirement.
Perhaps now our ecumenical work can truly begin.
10. September 2009, 12:20, NZZ
OnlineSchweizer Bischöfe lehnen die Minarett-Initiative deutlich ab Schweizer Bischöfe lehnen die Minarett-Initiative deutlich ab.
Schweizer Bischöfe lehnen die Minarett-Initiative deutlich ab.
Die Schweizer Bischöfe finden klare Worte gegen die Anti-Minarett-Initiative. …
(sda) Die Schweizer Bischöfe finden klare Worte gegen die Anti-Minarett-Initiative. Ein Minarett-Verbot in der Schweiz würde den gemeinsamen Weg der Integration behindern. Diese deutliche Haltung tue aber der grossen Solidarität mit verfolgten Christen keinen Abbruch.
«Wir Schweizer Bischöfe sind nicht blauäugig», sagte Bischof Kurt Koch am Donnerstag vor den Medien in Bern. Die Schweizerische Bischofskonferenz (SBK) sei sich bewusst, dass nicht alle islamischen Länder die Religions- und Kultusfreiheit respektierten. Daher betone die SBK ihre Nähe und Solidarität gegenüber verfolgten Christen.
Aber eine Symmetrie des Unrechts könne er unmöglich unterstützen, sagte Koch weiter. Zudem freuten sich die Bischöfe, dass es in der Bundesverfassung keine religiösen Ausnahmeartikel mehr gebe. Daher sollten durch die Abstimmung über die Anti-Minarett-Initiative vom 29. November keine neuen Ausnahmen eingeführt werden. Zu diesem Schluss sei die SBK an ihrer 285. Konferenz in Delsberg gekommen.
So deutlich die SBK ein Minarett-Verbot ablehnte, so eindeutig strich SBK-Präsident Koch die Solidarität mit unterdrückten Glaubensbrüdern hervor. Als «eklatantes Beispiel für verfolgte Christen» nannte er das Kloster Mor Gabriel im Südosten der Türkei.
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Basically, Bishop Koch is demanding to see Muslims have the freedom to construct and use minarets in Switzerland, though he does also request freedom of religion for Catholics who are so very persecuted in many Islamic countries.
I know something about how Switzerland came to be the way it is, but not enough to comment on this. Anyway, the good bishop is going to Christian Unity, not Interreligious Dialogue.
Ouch! Sounds like we have a few popes right here! ;-)
Koch appointed, Kasper retired:
http://visnews-en.blogspot.com/2010/07/other-pontifical-acts.html
All eyes now on the Congregation for Clergy and Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life… Come on Holy Father you’re on a roll, don’t stop now!
He was nicknamed “Kasper the Unfriendly Geist” by some Byzantine Catholics in reference to his oppostion to a Ukrainian Catholic patriarchate so as not to “hurt” relations with the Russian Orthodox Church.
Deep Six, for both.. ;)