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Bishop Joseph Strickland of Tyler, Texas, called for the resignation of German Cardinal Reinhard Marx Thursday for the latter’s public rejection of Catholic moral teaching.“Cardinal Marx has left the Catholic faith. He needs to be honest & officially resign,” wrote Bishop Strickland on his Twitter account, citing the cardinal’s pressure for a change in Church teaching on the immorality of gay sex.

CARDINAL REINHARD MARX WITH POPE FRANCIS A prominent Roman Catholic Church leader in Germany has said that he believes priests should be allowed to get married, opposing centuries of mandated celibacy for clergy. Cardinal Reinhard Marx, the archbishop of Munich and a reformist ally of Pope Francis, told the German publication Sueddeutsche Zeitung that he supported clerical marriage as part of reforms to battle sex abuse. “For some priests, it would be better if they were married — not just for sexual reasons, but because it would be better for their life and they wouldn’t be lonely,” stated Marx, as...

Cardinal Marx resigns, synodal path winsI’m taking a brief time out from a larger work to comment on the big news dominating Catholic, and much of secular, media this morning: Cardinal Marx Submits Letter of Resignation to Pope Francis!Euronews, a network that claims to reach to “over 400 million homes in 160 countries,” called the letter “stunning.” The Wall Street Journal reported it as a “surprise move.”National Catholic Reporter weighed in by declaring the resignation “shocking.”Based on the reaction of many so-called “conservative” and “tradition-minded” Catholics on social media, the most shocking thing of all, in my view, is the...

"Cardinal hits young traditionalists who want to ‘be clear in their positions’: calls it ‘the beginning of terrorism’" One of Pope Francis’ closest advisors, and the leader of one of the most “liberal” Catholic hierarchies in the world, has denounced “traditional” young people for wanting “to be clear in their positions,” warning that it is a path to “terrorism.” In a related interview with the Jesuit magazine America, Cardinal Reinhard Marx, the head of the German Bishops’ conference, applauded people in homosexual partnerships who want a “lifelong” relationship. “I am astonished that most of our young people, and also Catholic...