Again today's German press gives extensive coverage to the reporting of the Lutheran bishop and head of the German Protestant church being caught drink driving.
The piece below is from today's Frankfurter Rundschau.
It is being reported in the media not because she was drink driving but because she was caught doing it. And of course because of who she is.
On the other hand it suits German authorities to embarrass the woman. In recent months she has been a strong critic of the German Army serving in Afghanistan. She referred to it as immoral and unjustifiable.
Nobody ever knows what goes on in the life of another person. What's all this preaching and roaring, telling people what to do and not to do. Who are these guardians of morality? Anyone could draw up a long list of people who say one thing and do another. Some are more crass at it than others.
If Trevor Sargent had not been caught he would be still a minister. If Wilile O'Dea had not been caught he would still be Minister of Defence.
Would there be a word from an Irish bishop had they not been caught?
Is it all just a world of dirty tricks where the strong and powerful are always in charge. They always have all the tools at their disposal - parliament in public and then the behind-the-scenes 'stuff'.
Käßmanns Kritiker
Krokodilstränen in Strömen
Von Joachim Frank
Der Rat der evangelischen Kirche in Deutschland (EKD) stellt sich hinter seine Vorsitzende Margot Käßmann - einstimmig sprachen ihr die 14 Mitglieder des Rates das Vertrauen aus. Das hatten sie zuvor in einer Telefonkonferenz abgesprochen. In "ungeteiltem Vertrauen" überlasse der Rat Käßmann dann die "Entscheidung über den Weg, der dann gemeinsam eingeschlagen werden soll", hieß es in der Erklärung weiter. Auf einer regulären Sitzung noch in dieser Woche will das Gremium demnach eine abschließende Bewertung vornehmen.
Die Evangelisch-lutherische Landeskirche von Hannover ist Margot Käßmanns Dienstgeberin – und ihre stärkste Bastion. Die Bischöfin, seit 1999 im Amt, gilt als hoch anerkannt und beliebt – bei den drei Millionen Gläubigen, aber auch bei der übergroßen Mehrheit der Pfarrer und bei der Kirchenleitung in Hannover. Gern und mit spürbarem Stolz erzählt Käßmann, dass sie auf ihren Besuchen in den Pfarreien als "unsere Bischöfin" begrüßt werde.
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Kässmann resigned this afternoon, Michael - a courageous, consistent, moral step. Many bishops could take her as an example. They won't of course.
Here's her resignation statement
http://www.spiegel.de/panorama/0,1518,680084,00.html
(and, plugging myself, a little something I wrote about it:
http://francishunt.blogspot.com/2010/02/resigning.html)
Francis
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