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Lothar Christian Rilinger is a retired specialist lawyer for labor law and a retired deputy member of the State Court of Lower Saxony.
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Cardinal Müller reflects on pilgrimage, evangelization, and following Christ

May 3, 2025 Lothar Christian Rilinger 16

Rome (kath.net) Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller was invited by the organizers of the 2024 pilgrimage from Paris to Chartres to celebrate the concluding high mass in Chartres Cathedral and to give the sermon. Over 18,000 […]

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Cardinal Müller: “Demanding abortion as a human right is unsurpassable in its cynicism”

April 9, 2022 Lothar Christian Rilinger 18

Editor’s note: This essay was first published in German at kath.net on March 16th, and was translated into English, with the permission of the author, by Frank Nitsche-Robinson. Vatican (kath.net) The Christian-humanistic conception of man is […]

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Benedict XVI and the Abuse Report

January 30, 2022 Lothar Christian Rilinger 24

Editor’s note: This essay was published in German at kath.net last week and was translated into English, with the permission of the author, by Frank Nitsche-Robinson. Munich (kath.net) “Benedict’s lie!” – this accusation is haunting […]

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Delivering the longest and most detailed address of his pontificate to date—which clocks in at more than 4,000 words—Pope Francis today addressed the bishops of Brazil at the residence of the archbishop of Rio de […]

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