February 24, 2022
Just now I had a bizarre experience: I stood in the crowd and enthusiastically shouted "Alaaf!". Well, normally that wouldn't be so special, I live in [...]
December 16, 2020
Now it is discussed whether the churches should celebrate services at Christmas. Today one of our confreres, Fr. Thomas Eggensperger OP, commented on this on katholisch.de and [...]
October 9, 2020
The other day I celebrated a mass on livestream. Well, actually it was not a mass, even if it was announced so ("Beat Mass"), but an ecumenical service. So [...]
May 10, 2020
I know there have been smarter people commenting on the conspiracy theories that Archbishop Vigano published a few days ago. I know there are only a scant dozen bishops who [...]
April 24, 2020
The discovery of nature, the new forms of work... Another point that struck many people very early on was that so much creativity was being released everywhere. [...]
April 23, 2020
If I have already started to look for what we can take positive from this crisis, then I also notice the work. I already do [...]
April 21, 2020
Now hope is gradually emerging that there might be life after the crisis after all. But immediately everyone warns: not so fast, be careful, otherwise it will [...]
April 7, 2020
Now there is no way around the realization: our church is not systemically relevant. Actually, we don't believe that, we think we are irreplaceable. But [...]
March 30, 2020
Today I had a conversation with someone about my article "A virus sucks". I was a bit embarrassed, because my interlocutor rightly said that [...]