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"German Cardinal criticizes plan to display crosses in gov’t buildings"
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"German Cardinal Reinhard Marx, the liberal head of the German Bishops’ Conference who believes the Catholic Church owes an apology to gays, has strongly criticized Bavarian Premier Markus Söder for requiring crosses to be installed at the entrance of all state administrative buildings by June 1...
Söder's office announced the decision on April 24, claiming it is intended to 'express the historical and cultural character' of Bavaria and to be 'a visible commitment to the core values of the legal and social order in Bavaria and Germany.'
Premier Söder, a Lutheran who belongs to the Christian Social Union (a political party that has ruled Bavaria since 1957), later tweeted that displaying the crosses is an 'avowal of our Bavarian identity and Christian values.'
The predominantly Catholic Bavaria, the birthplace of Joseph Ratzinger, already has crosses installed in public schools and courtrooms.
Speaking with German daily newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung, Marx claimed Söder was causing 'division, unrest and animosity' with his plan, and that Söder was 'expropriating the cross in the name of the state.'...
'You don't understand the cross if you only see it as a cultural symbol,' Marx proclaimed. The cross is 'a sign of opposition to violence, injustice, sin and death, but not a sign [of exclusion] against other people.' It’s not for the state to explain the meaning of a cross...
Voderholzer's remarks are indicative of the growing split among German Bishops, who are engaged in what has been called a small-scale civil war over the reception of the Holy Eucharist for Protestant spouses of Catholics.
The issue has become so divisive that seven German Bishops asked Rome to rule on the proposal, which was first approved by a majority of the German Bishops conference in February. Cardinal Marx will meet with Pope Francis in Rome on May 3 to discuss the matter further.
Marx’s comments were also met with opposition from the Apostolic Nuncio to Austria.
In an address Tuesday at the Cistercian Abbey of the Holy Cross in the village of Heiligenkreuz, Archbishop Peter Stephan Zurbiggen stated, 'As nuncio and as representative of the Holy Father, I am quite sad and ashamed that there are, of all people, bishops and priests who have to issue criticisms when in a neighboring country crosses are being displayed...'
Referring to Cardinal Marx’s heavily criticized decision to remove his pectoral cross while he visited the Jewish Wailing Wall and the Muslim Dome of the Rock on the Temple Mount in 2016, the Nuncio continued: 'When they make a pilgrimage into the Holy Land and are ashamed to carry the cross, for some kind of reason, then I am ashamed, too.'
Premier Söder’s decision has caused reverberations in the Bavarian political arena as well.
Since 2015, Germany has seen an influx of more than 1 million people from the Middle East thanks to Chancellor Angela Merkel’s open borders immigration policy...
Bavaria will elect its new government on October 14. On March 6 of this year, the Bavarian government dropped its plan to challenge a 2017 parliamentary decision that legalized same-sex 'marriages.'"
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