Posted on 08/31/2020 6:30:39 PM PDT by marshmallow
Cardinal poses by Karl Marx statue
MUNICH (ChurchMilitant.com) - The German Bishops' Conference is facing backlash for a post about Karl Marx.
On Tuesday last week, the conference shared a photo of Cdl. Reinhard Marx posing in front of a statue of communism's forefather.
Tuesday's post said the cardinal "appreciates" Karl Marx "as a great thinker," and stopped by the statue in Trier during a visit there the week prior.
"From 2002 to 2008," the post noted, "Cdl. Reinhard Marx was bishop of Trier, the hometown of Karl Marx."
Social Media Backlash
There was backlash to the post on social media, with many Catholics slamming the German bishops for calling Karl Marx a "great thinker."
Commenters called the photo-op "despicable," "cringe" and a "shame," or suggested the cardinal is "krank im kopf" — "sick in the head."
One of the comments, from a German conservative, asked rhetorically, "And Karl Marx is a role model, huh? So is socialism, that has cost millions of people worldwide?"
"A mockery to all victims of socialism!" said one commenter in German. "Mr. Cardinal Marx should be ashamed of himself!"
Another user remarked, "Ah, the statue donated by China. Marx, the father of an ideology that has cost many, many people their lives."
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Appropriate for Bishop Bergoglio. Inappropriate as hell for the Church.
It’s time to break off and form our own Family.
Since my current Catholic leaders are acting like a crime family, might as well use the lingo.
God gave us eyes and ears and a brain to think about what we are seeing and hearing.
I’ve done enough thinking.
This hierarchy is lost to communists.
Let us build a new one with dissident conservative Bishops and Cardinals as the new heads. They can elect a Pope.
Yeah I know...very far fetched.
But the Catholic religion is owned at the top by Godless communists.
Drastic times call for drastic measures...
Wtf is going on with the Catholic Church?
He needs to be renamed “The Red Cardinal”. That term was used to describe the hardcore Communist sympathizer, “The Archbishop of Canterbury” in England during the 50s/60s, etc.
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