Posted on 02/17/2023 6:27:57 AM PST by Gillibrand1
The deeply troubling history of the Catholic Integrated Community
The Katholische Integrierte Gemeinde – Catholic Integrated Community (KIG) was founded in 1965. The beginnings of the community go back to 1945, when the initiator Traudl Wallbrecher developed her idea of a new beginning in the church linked to Jewish-Christian roots as a response to the Holocaust. In 1948, Traudl Weiß, the leader of the federation at the time, left the Heliand Girls' Federation with around 60 other members. After her marriage to the lawyer Herbert Wallbrecher, a childhood friend of Johannes Degenhardt, this developed into the nucleus of the later Integrated Community. The group established itself in Munich at the end of the 1960s. For a time it was regarded as a hopeful new departure in the Catholic Church and, according to its own account, wanted to be "a place for an enlightened and unabridged Christianity". The spiritual and theological orientation was based on modern exegesis, the liturgical and ecumenical movement, the Jewish roots of Christianity and the philosophy and literature of the post-war period (including the French existentialists). The members of the Integrated Community understood themselves to be "a place for an enlightened and unabridged Christianity"
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The basic Jewish root is Christ upon which the Church is based not Vatican II progressives.,,....
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