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Church – Cologne:Carolin Kebekus: “And if I’m Catholic!”
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Cologne (AP) – The comedian Carolin Kebekus (41) still considers herself Catholic after leaving the church. “And if I’m Catholic!” She said in an interview with the “Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger” (Wednesday). “As a baptized person, no one can take that away from me or deny it. I have problems with the institution, structures and power relations. That’s why I left the church. But I feel I belong to the community of believers.”
The Cologne Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki, who has returned to his post after a five-month sabbatical, reminds her of a football coach who “comes back after a dishonorable leave of absence and then acts as if his club hadn’t been relegated at all”. But they didn’t expect anything else, because experience has shown that Pope Francis does not take action. “If one of the bishops offers to resign, Francis becomes extra stubborn: “Nope, stay nice so nothing has to change.”
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