German bishops’ news agency launches English edition

Bonn, Germany, Jan 10, 2020 / 04:00 pm (CNA).- A news agency owned by the Catholic Church in Germany has launched an English language service, which it says will provide objective news and information on the Catholic Church in Germany.

The new service, KNA International, will consist of translated versions of stories written by the German-language agency, KNA.

KNA is owned by medienhaus, a subsidiarity of the Verband der Diözesen Deutschlands, which is the corporate and operations arm of the German bishops’ conference. The agency says it is positioned to give objective information about the German Church to the English-speaking world.

The agency’s Jan. 7 press release noted that “there is intense interest within the Catholic Church around the world in the so-called Synodal Path, the project for reforms in the Catholic Church in Germany starting at the end of January with a three day synodal plenary assembly in Frankfurt.”

“Until now, coverage of the debates underway in the Catholic Church in Germany by English-language media, blogs and social media has often been polemical and rarely objective,” Lugwig Ring-Eifel, editor-in-chief of Katholische Nachrichten-Agentur, or KNA, said in the press release.

At the center of coverage surrounding the German Church has been Cardinal Reinhard Marx, the head of the German bishops’ conference, which owns KNA.

Marx has made headlines for controversial remarks regarding sexual morality, ministry to homosexual persons, and the possibility of changing Catholic doctrine.

The agency says it especially aims to provide accurate translations, ensure that readers will have a more objective and clear account of the activities of Marx, along with other members of the German bishops’ conference.


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4 Comments

  1. In his criticism of English news coverage, clearly the cardinal does not understand English culture. Too little appreciation of the five slapstick Marx Brothers alongside of whom he elevates himself into an equally-immortalized (theology!) sixth role–together with Chico, Harpo, Gummo, Zeppo and especially Groucho: writer, stage, film, radio and television star and one of America’s greatest comedians.

    The proto-schismatic cardinal fits right in as a witty Croucho double(?): “Please accept my resignation. I don’t want to belong to any club [read church] that will accept me as a member.”

    Let the comedy begin even now, new English megaphone and all, with this self-referential script about an “intense interest [!??] within the Catholic Church around the world [!??]” in the synodal path of Lutherania/Amazonia/Germania.

  2. To be, or not to be, that is the question: Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of an outrageous English language media polemical and rarely objective, Or to take arms with our own (The Prince of Denmark if he were Cdl Marx). Germany’s Hamlet Cardinal Reinhard Marx [too noble a valorous Prince of the Church to be likened to Groucho] rides Cardinal Carlo Martini’s steed Synodality into the Sunset. And Darkness. CNA Flash: “Marx has made headlines for controversial remarks regarding sexual morality, ministry to homosexual persons, and the possibility of changing Catholic doctrine. The agency says it especially aims to provide accurate translations, ensure that readers Yadda yadda yadda”. Our Pontiff casts a wary public eye. To be or not to be Roman Catholic is the question. We the faithful expect decisive action from the Vatican to halt the inevitable. Germany’s faithful deserve better.

  3. The German Bishops should be honest and just leave the Catholic Church, since they do not believe what the Church teaches. No amount of propaganda and spin will change this.

    • Those German Bishops Who do not believe what every Catholic must believe with Divine and Catholic Faith, like all Baptized Catholics who do not believe what every Catholic must believe with Divine and Catholic Faith, have already left The Catholic Faith, having denied The Holy Ghost and thus the fact “It is not possible to have Sacramental Communion without Ecclesial Communion”, due to The Unity Of The Holy Ghost.
      See Catholic Canon 750 in regards to being a member of and remaining in The Mystical Body Of Christ.

      https://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/library/ad-tuendam-fidem-7949

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