Follow us on: Facebook  Twitter
Subscribe to RSS RSS

Posts Tagged Switzerland

Renovation of Famous Cathedral of St. Gall, Switzerland, Encounters Opposition – UPDATED 2-24

Moving the altar nearly in the middle under the cupola and placing a golden ring above it was the plan of the London architectural firm “Caruso St. John Architects.”

Tags: , , , , ,

Swiss Bishop Sees Urgent Need for Reform of Roman Curia

“Sometimes the curial offices worry about things that simply are not their beer.” – Bishop Felix Gmür of Basel

Tags: , , , , , , , , , , ,

Swiss Abbot Harshly Criticizes Church Structures, Calls for Reform in the System of Naming Bishops

“In our church we have serious structural problems. The problem is that bishops achieve their position through this system, and consequently they have no interesting in questioning the current system. The church thus becomes a closed system. Perhaps it eventually has to collapse or fall apart before anything happens.” – Benedictine Abbot Peter von Sury

Tags: , , , , , , , , , , ,

Communion for the remarried: Swiss clergy and laity disobey, and head of German bishops calls for change in discipline

Forty priests and pastoral ministers from the Diocese of St. Gall, Switzerland, have issued a statement that they will continue to offer communion to the divorced and remarried.

Tags: , , , ,

Update on petitions in German-speaking countries

As of March 2nd, 238 theology professors in German-speaking countries, 288 clergymen of the diocese of Freiburg, and 287 religion teachers in Germany have signed on to the statement calling for massive reforms in the Roman Catholic Church.

Tags: , , , , ,

German-language translation: Delay and controversy

The former abbot of Einsiedeln, Georg Holzherr, stated that the Vatican is betraying the spirit of the Second Vatican Council with the commission Ecclesia celebrans. German-language translation work was far advanced at the end of the 1990s, only to land in the archives.

Tags: , , ,

Translation Update: German and Dutch Languages

In many cases the German bishops elected to retain the current text of the Missal. Dutch speakers have only recently begun to work on a new translation.

Tags: , , , , , , , , , ,