German archbishop Zollitsch denies fundamental catholic doctrine

The Chairman of the German Bishops' Conference and archbishop of Freiburg, Robert Zollitsch, believes that Christs crucifixion is just a psychological support for those who suffer.

On Holy Saturday, the archbishop denied the Expiatory Death of Christ in an interview with the German TV station 'Hessischer Rundfunk'.

Christ "did not die for the sins of the people as if God had needed a sacrificial offering or something like a scapegoat" - the archbishop said.

According to him the dying Christ simply expressed "solidarity" with the suffering of the people even to death.

This way, Christ showed, the archbishop said, that even suffering and pain have been taken up by God.

According to Zollitsch "this is the great perspective, the tremendous solidarity," that Christ went so far that he suffered all "with" me.

The journalist asked Zollitsch: "You would now no longer describe it in such a way that God gave his own son, because we humans were so sinful? You would no longer describe it like this?"

To this question Zollitsch replied with a clear "no".

He stated that God has given "his own son in solidarity with us unto his last agony to show that: You mean so much to me that I go with you, and I am totally with you in every situation."

The archbishop seems to row back a tiny way when he says that ones own sins were responsible that Christ "has become so involved with me". But he does not elaborate farther.

"Christ has become involved with me out of solidarity out of free will" the archbishop repeated in the interveiw.

According to Zollitsch Christ has "participated in carrying my debt, including the evil I have caused, in order to take this up into the world of God and hence to show also to me the way out of sin, guilt and from death to life."

Until now, the video on the website 'gloria.tv' has produced more than 100 readers comments.

Some readers call on Msgr. Zollitsch to recognise the Second Vatican Council. The Council declared - in line with the twenty preceding Councils - that Christ made atonement for the sins of the people.

A priest with the username 'Poldi' said that his "sermons of the past Holy Week, would all have to be trashed" if the statement of the archbishop were true.

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[MatthewN32]

I'm afraid you may be right about that. Let us pray that God will steer His Church away from Apostasy and back to Tradition.

Pax

[ThanksSaintJoseph]

WIll the Holy Father act in correcting this Blatant Heresy?