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German Bishops Are Dreaming: Dragging Their Feet
The Eponymous Flower ^ | 09/25/2010 | Tancred

Posted on 09/25/2010 6:37:31 PM PDT by 0beron

The decadent German Church once again finds itself on the crossroads: will the Bishops finally obey the Pope or will they regard him as a fool?

[Kreuz.net, Fulda] Today the President of the German Bishops Conference, Archbishop Robert Zollitsch of Freiburg, held the findings of the complete assembly of the Bishops Conference, which took place this week in Fulda.

A press text from the website of the German Bishops Conference was published.

The Bishops turn everything to sex

According to the Bishops, future dialogue will be directed to the supposedly "bulky themes".

As an example, they will address the relentless journalist litany of sex, priest sex and the dispensing of sacraments for adulterers.

(Excerpt) Read more at eponymousflower.blogspot.com ...


TOPICS: Catholic; Current Events; General Discusssion; Worship
KEYWORDS: abuse; bishopsconference; liturgy

1 posted on 09/25/2010 6:37:35 PM PDT by 0beron
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To: 0beron

Translated by a macbine? Whatever this is, it’s not intelligible English.


2 posted on 09/25/2010 7:52:18 PM PDT by Houghton M.
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To: 0beron

This is apparently the original.

http://www.kreuz.net/article.11922.html

It says that “for the bishops, everything has to do with sex” not “turn everything to sex.” Whoever translated this doesn’t know that “dreht sich” is reflexive. A computer at least would distinguish a reflexive from a simple transitive verb. Must have been translated by someone with half-a-grasp of German.


3 posted on 09/25/2010 7:56:43 PM PDT by Houghton M.
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To: 0beron

And “today . . . held the results” translates “praesentierte . . . die Ergebnisse”


4 posted on 09/25/2010 7:58:02 PM PDT by Houghton M.
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To: 0beron

Oh, and “bulky themes” — “sperrige Themen” — someone looked up sperrig in a dictionary and chose “bulky”—what it means in this context is things that gum up the works, block, pose obstacles. Yeah, bulky things do that. But “bulky themes” is a pretty darn sperrige way of speaking English.


5 posted on 09/25/2010 8:02:32 PM PDT by Houghton M.
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To: Houghton M.

Panzy.


6 posted on 09/25/2010 8:44:49 PM PDT by 0beron
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To: Houghton M.

We never get good translations from him.


7 posted on 09/25/2010 8:57:15 PM PDT by vladimir998 (Part of the Vast Catholic Conspiracy (hat tip to Kells))
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