Dear God, I quit! Kaplan gives up the priesthood - basic true heart is the thing

A priest from Trostberg to relinquish his office. His motives, he published on the Internet. You could trigger a rethink in the Catholic Church.

Trostberg – While the Catholic Church in Germany slowly, in a Synodal way open to discuss about the future of the priestly form of life adopted by a young priest of his service. The 33-year-old Kaplan, Michael Maurer has given up his priesthood in order to marry.

consolation Berger priests published motives for resignation in the Internet

Four years after his priestly ordination in the Freising Cathedral, he informed the faithful in the parish Association Trostberg (Kreis Traunstein) now about his serious decision. "I met a woman with whom I have my whole life to spend. I want to live my life in sincerity before God and the people in front of myself and this woman and waivers, therefore, a compromise solution,“ said the young clergyman, on the website of the parish Association. "I mog koa zwiedana pastor wern", formulated from Eiselfing (Kreis Rosenheim) the root end (as Yet)a priest.

in September 2015, he is in the parish Association Trostberg as a chaplain, two years ago, he met a woman and fell in love. "It would make me repent for life, if I would not spend my life with her," says Maurer. It is obvious: A bitter priest can't be a good pastor and more. So: No Compromises. He goes in peace on his new path.

priest from Trostberg: love before the Church office

Behind the young chaplain a hard year, in which he prayed a lot and God has asked, as he reported frankly is obvious. Ultimately, he came to the Conviction: "I picked the Gfui, because the Lord God losst mi go."

Wished you had become a Mason, that he may exercise his chaplain time in Trostberg until the end of mid-August would have. However, this goodwill had not granted to him by the personnel Department in the Archiepiscopal Ordinariate of Munich. But here the Church comes right into play. "A priest who declared that the vow of celibacy is no more life, no more may also do the service as pastor," said Christoph Kappes, head of the press office of the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising.

Asked about the future career of the outgoing priest, said Kappes that, in General, after the suspension of the request of the person Concerned to Specialization successes. It will ultimately be decided in Rome. "If he is laisiert, he can be in the Annunciation, for example, as a religion teacher or in the education of adults." According to Kappes is recorded in the Archdiocese of no Trend to Specialization to. "Usually a priest per year will be eliminated because of the celibacy," he said.

Catholic Church must for the modern life opening

The consolation of Berger city of pastor Florian Schomers see Maurer's resignation with Regret "His human, committed kind of all excited." The town priest wants to initiate in a letter to the chair to Think about celibacy. "The Catholic Church cannot afford to dispense with good people," he told the Passauer Neue Presse. It alternative, modern priest would have to forms of life as a Supplement to the celibacy to be created.

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