On the Suspended Priest Gotthold Hasenhüttl

Benedictus XVI. P.P.

Function: Pope of the Holy Roman Church

Title: Servus Servorum Dei

Birthdate: Apr 16, 1927	Country: Germany

Elevated: Jun 27, 1977	More information: www.catholic-hierarchy.org, www.ratzingerfanclub.com/, www.benedictxvi.tv

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On the Suspended Priest Gotthold Hasenhüttl
Sept 15, 2004
Commenting on the recent suspension of Gotthold Hasenhüttl, an Austrian theologian from Trier who gave Communion to non-Catholics at the ecumenical Kirchentag.

(The Tablet, 2 August 2003) Commenting on the recent suspension of Gotthold Hasenhüttl, an Austrian theologian from Trier who gave Communion to non-Catholics at the ecumenical Kirchentag, Ratzinger said that the offence he had committed in Berlin was “relatively unimportant” compared with some of his writings. Hasenhüttl had stated that “God as a reality did not exist”, but was merely “an encountered event”, Ratzinger said, and that was not in keeping with Catholic belief.

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