Cologne - Cologne, Cardinal Joachim Meisner, Archbishop scolds from the CDU. Unfortunately, he had to say, "that the CDU increasingly uprooted when Christian people who think themselves".
The preferred party of Catholic voters she's not. The magazine "Capital", he said: "For Catholics, it was" only conditionally selectable.
'Choice' of course, everyone must agree with his conscience. " And he added: "At the current state of the parties, there are none, the most closely related to us."
The Cardinal had been reworked several times in the past, the C-parties and responsible members of government - as in family policy, and most recently on the issue of embryonic stem cell research. And in terms of abortion, there is for the Cardinal had nothing to discuss or even to relax.
Recently, the 74-year-old had exhorted the Christian Democrat politician, "that it was private and the public are struggling to live the Gospel - it convenient or not."
Now the battle lines seem to have hardened even further, because even in the CSU-governed, predominantly conservative Bavaria is Meisner's view the world for the Catholic Church out of joint:
His devastating diagnosis: "Since I know a bit of the scenery in Bavaria, I am disillusioned. The Baroque housing belies a certain hollowness of time. "That is true not just for the CSU, as he had introduced there Catholicism more generally," he lamented.
Union Group Vice Wolfgang Bosbach (CDU), rejected the criticism Meisner. The Express said: "Such sweeping statements are for those in the Union that have tried unsuccessfully in good faith and not a question of giving effect to the Christian position - for example the issue of protection of life - not particularly helpful.
In politics, we are in a constant process of weighing and often have to make compromises. The Church has, in contrast to the policy has the advantage that it must not compromise their beliefs and may remain completely unaffected faithful. "
But not only the C-party got off their fat. He sharply denounced "some extremely high executive pay," which is contrary to morality: "That must be ashamed of those who accept and forget their social responsibility here."
