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.
On the Suspended Priest Gotthold Hasenhüttl