10-15-2022, 05:16 AM
Only a "First Step": Another German Diocese Introduces Lay Baptisms
gloria.tv | October 14, 2022
Bishop Gebhard Fürst of Rottenburg-Stuttgart, Germany, allows lay people to baptise regularly (letter to priests below). The Diocese of Essen introduced the same regulation in March.
Auxiliary Bishop Karrer told a press conference on 13 October that this innovation was in line with "the desire of many families for baptism to be individual, personal and familiar." The number of baptisms in Germany is declining dramatically.
At the same press conference, church-tax theologian Ursula Renner called this only a "first step". She wants lay people to celebrate weddings and [invalidly] administer anointing of the sick and confirmation.
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"So let us be confident, let us not be unprepared, let us not be outflanked, let us be wise, vigilant, fighting against those who are trying to tear the faith out of our souls and morality out of our hearts, so that we may remain Catholics, remain united to the Blessed Virgin Mary, remain united to the Roman Catholic Church, remain faithful children of the Church."- Abp. Lefebvre