In a recent interview, Bishop Georg Bätzing of Limburg, the new president of the German bishops’ conference, signaled openness to both married priests and women’s ordination and appeared to criticize a lengthy essay by Pope Benedict XVI on the causes of the clerical sexual abuse crisis.
German bishops’ head: No retreat from “synodality”
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