Vatican cardinal cites Nazi theology in German reform
FILE - Swiss Cardinal Kurt Koch celebrates the Vespers of the Solemnity of the Conversion of Saint Paul, at the St. Paul outside the Walls Basilica, in Rome, Monday, Jan. 25, 2021. The Vatican Cardinal has said he didn't intend to compare the reform debate in the German Catholic Church to that of the Nazi era, the latest criticism directed at the German church as it seeks to pursue a path of progressive reform and dialogue as a response to the clergy sex abuse scandal. (Ettore Ferrari/Pool via AP, File)
(AP) — A Swiss cardinal compared German Catholics' ideas to pro-Nazi Protestants when they "saw God’s new revelation in blood and soil and in the rise of Hitler.”
