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Inhumane positions are always inacceptable 

Bishop Bätzing: Commitment to the AfD and the Church is problematic

Do involvement in the AfD and in the Church go together? The bishops' conference chairman Georg Bätzing calls this "problematic". He sees a conflict with the Christian view of humanity - and consequences for the church.

The Chairman of the German Bishops' Conference, Bishop Georg Bätzing , calls it "problematic to get involved in the AfD and to carry out a task in the church". The “Bild” newspaper (Sunday, online) quotes the Limburg bishop as saying that this does not fit with the Christian view of humanity and could make the church untrustworthy. “The church must simply always brand inhumane or anti-democratic positions as unacceptable and intolerable.”

For some time now, prominent voices in the Catholic Church have been speaking out about how to deal with the AfD. In August, the President of the Central Committee of German Catholics, Irme Stetter-Karp, reiterated her demand to exclude AfD members from elective church positions. "My position is clear: Anyone who is in the AfD should not have any power in the church." The party's attitude is an "attitude of destruction".

Augsburg Bishop Bertram Meier, on the other hand, does not want to exclude AfD members from positions in the Catholic Church, such as lector. “Party membership alone is not a criterion for excluding people,” Meier said recently. "If we started to exclude people, we would push them even more into an extreme corner." In such cases it is more a matter of seeking conversation. For Catholics, however, it is important to strengthen political forces that represent humanity, reconciliation, peace and social justice.

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