German Catholics rebuke senior bishop for employing pro-abortion activist in key church role

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(LIFESITE NEWS) – Maria 1.0, a German lay group of Catholic women, published on August 11 a letter to Bishop Georg Bätzing – the head of the German bishops’ conference – that they had sent to him on August 3. In that letter, they pointed out to him the scandalous fact that a prominent lay woman, Dr. Irme Stetter-Karp, had recently demanded “that the medical intervention of an abortion should be made possible across the board.”

Dr. Stetter-Karp is chairwoman of the ZdK (Central Committee of German Catholics), and thus formally the highest representation of Catholic laity in Germany, and is also co-president of the Synodal Path. As such, she is closely working together with Bishop Bätzing who is the other co-president of the Synodal Path, a discussion forum in the Catholic Church in Germany that has issued multiple demands for reform that are at odds with Catholic teaching, such as female ordination and the blessing of homosexual couples.

Clara Steinbrecher, the head of the faithful Catholic lay organization Maria 1.0, explained in a letter to LifeSite that the group decided to publish the letter to Bishop Bätzing after he did not respond to their correspondance. They thus turned the letter into an open letter and gathered more than 20 signatories of prominent German lay people, such as the pro-life activist Mathias von Gersdorff (see here an earlier LifeSite interview with him) and Professor Manfred Spieker. Alexander Tschugguel’s St. Boniface Institute is among the signatories, as well.

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