A New List of Three Episcopal Successors for the Archdiocese of Berlin

Editor: Bishop van Elst was the favorite last time we heard about this to replace the Old Liberal Archbishop Georg Sterzinsky. So that's two major Archdiocese up for new Bishops, including Milan right now.

Berlin Air

Germany. Either the Nuncio or the Berlin Cathedral have compiled a three list for the selection of the new Archbishop of Berlin, which should have the following three names: Bishop Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst (51) von Limburg, Archbishop Ludwig Schick (61), or Berlin's current General Vicar, Msgr Ronald Rother (67)

According to kreuz.net...

Old Liberals in Limburg Sense they are Junkers: Hurray for Bishop Tebartz

He's Tougher Than He Looks

These Limburger Tie-Priests have done nothing else their whole lives long, than attempt to destroy the Church.  Five minutes before their retirement they rebel one last time against their Bishop, who they fear, will institute necessary reforms.

(kreuz.net, Limburg) Ten hotheads from time immemorial, old Liberal pastors from the Diocese of Limburg have written and published a hate letter against their Bishop, Msgr Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst.

Their pamphlet was  eagerly awaited by the anti-Church media.

The Situation in the Diocese of Limburg is Catastrophic for the Old Liberals

Under the protection of Anonymity one of the snipers blusters from the website 'mittelhessen.de': "The situation in the Dioceese of Limburg is catastrophic.  The concern is monstrously large."

 The infamous Limburg Judas-Priest, Fr. Hubertus Janssen is using his full name to rail against his Bishop.

Fr. Janssen must not be afraid of anything.   For he is under the protection of particular powerful media bosses.

This 1st of December he will be 73 years old when he goes into retirement.

Days before his retirement he will not let "forbid his mouth from speaking" -- bragged 'mittelhessen.de'.

Even two critics, with names presented, are two or three years before their retirement. He had some days ago decried his Bishop for a German anti-Church magazine  and earned much applause.

It's a question of Pastor Albert Dexelmann (63) from Runkel in the vicinity of Limburg-Weilburg.  He opnly said that, "not much can happen" to him -- for he is also trusting in the potential outrage of the media bosses.

Our Health in the Body of Christ?

The hate letter against the Bishop swelled in emotions, strident vocabulary and painted in black and white.

Since Bishop Tebarttz-van Elst is leading the Diocese,  "heads are hanging low" -- is the lamentation.

Meaningful elements, "support our piety", even "our health in the body of Christ" are "everything is carried on in oblique in a very dicky [incompetent] and clandestine way"  -- horrify the church's enemies upon what is really laughable.

The letter excuses all possible groupings of their special hate:

-People in the community, who are seeking supposedly "spiritual guidance"

-the opportunistic people responsible in public life

-the anti-Church journalists and press

-decadent artists and intellectuals

-people who are hungry for the old Liberal version of the word of God

-young people, who want nothing to do with yesterday's old liberal soup

-Church tax papers and donors

The laymen -- which is put in quotes in the letter -- would feel, "that clerical scenes are created that leave them disturbed viewing it from the outside" --so hopes the mutineer.

Journalists and the Press, who earlier served the old Liberal Abortion-Bishop Franz Kamhaus as a court crier, will now experience an "absconding" churchman -- says the letter, although the naive Bishop Tebartz-van Else has already run into the knife of the Church-hate magazine 'Spiegel'.

The hate letter also says that the allegedly experienced minister  "who has had the idea put in his head" would, as if they notice, how the "clerical darkness" is leading priest candidates by the soul.

In reality the old Liberal darkness in the Dicoese of Limburg is the problem, because he hinders the principle errors of the Post-Conciliar past and sees that they are reformed and corrected.

Because of this fearful process of destruction from these uninsightful old Liberals, young priests today have inherited a difficult legacy.

Meeting the Devil Halfway

The self-loving preachers of hate care for themselves:  "Are we obsolete models?" -- they hit the nail on the head.

At the same time they call a worthy lLiturgy -- which is oriented on God -- "a Ritual of Self-Love":

"The Legionaires of Christ and the Society of Pius X expect to send us to the junkyard." -- explained the junker.

It isn't just then, "a little, short-term spiritual blooper to deal with", rather a "bitter, persistent problem" -- so the Bishop-hater correctly analyzes his own problem.

Pubescently, he declares for a "major network" he desires for socializing.

Finally they say again in their letter, incorrectly, gratuitously:  "The Legionaries of  Christ and the Society of Pius X are waiting, to junk us."

The Church Can't Make Mothers out of Fathers: Bishop van Elst Critical of Ephemeral Zeitgeist

The Bishop of Limburg found joyful words against woman's ordination, for celibacy and criticized the adaption of the ephemeral Zeitgeist.

[kreuz.net] Bishop Franz-peter Tebartz-van Elst stood critically against "commonly accepted proposals for modernization".

He explained this on the 1st of October for three journalists of the newspaper 'Nassauische Neu Presse' which was very hostilely inclined to the Bishop.

The Priest Functions as a Father

The Bishop spoke forcefully against the effort to the theologically impossible ordination of priestesses.

For: The priest has a father function within the community: "The Father is the Father, the Mother is the Mother."

The Church is then for that reason not in a position to ordain women priests.

Jesus had made men to be his Apostles, thereon the Church buttresses itself.

The question if women may be priestesses is no question of adequacy -- rather a question of the concrete pattern of Jesus.

In answer to a - stupid - request the Bishop explained that God loves women exactly as much as men. It is also important that women participate in the Church.

So he was occupied with a few positions concerning women.

Relative to the priesthood the Bishop was clear: "Those who are to become Priests, it is to say, they will be called by the Church."

There is no right, therefore, to be a Priest: "That doesn't just go for women, rather for men as well."


Journalists have Problems with Celibacy

The obligatory question about the abolition of celibacy was not answered so directly by Msgr Tebartz-van Elst:

"Many priests to live and are aware that they have then decided to devote their lives to God."

The Bishop contradicted the theory, whereon celibacy is a reason that today so few young men want to be priests.

He reproved the communities - and pastoral ministers, who have children and stay away even without celibacy.

"The reason for the priest shortage is much more in the secularization of life. Many people could imagine a life without God."


Secularization means Wordly

As a further reason for the priest shortage he identified lack of support, whereby the decision to become a priest can be hindered.

Thus he proposed: "We need evidence of Faith."