Archbishop Robert Zollitsch continues to divide Catholic parishes.

Bishop Mixa joins battle. Archbishop Zollitsch while still clearly not labouring under any prohibition against thinking about the abolition to celibacy cannot bring himself to speak about it anymore.


Cathcon translation of
Erzbischof Robert Zollitsch spaltet weiterhin die katholische Kirchengemeinde.

Shortly after his election as chairman of the German Bishops' Conference Zollitsch, in an interview, spoke out against "prohibitions against thinking" about celibacy . The theologian Hans Küng goes a step further and calls for the German bishops to promote the abolition of celibacy to the Vatican. The Bishop of Augsburg, Walter Mixa, however, called Zollitsch's statements "not helpful" for the Church. Zollitsch himself will not speak further about the debate on the abolition of celibacy.