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Bishop Bätzing opens path to Protestants receiving Holy Communion in Germany

April 27, 2021

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CWN Editor's Note: “Anyone who is Protestant and attends Communion can receive Communion” during an ecumenical event in May, Bishop Georg Bätzing of Limburg announced. Bishop Bätzing has led the German bishops’ conference since March 2020.

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  • Posted by: TheJournalist64 - Apr. 27, 2021 5:41 PM ET USA

    This fellow is excluding himself from the communion of the Church by teaching what is unabashedly heretical. Pray for our German siblings in the faith. They are falling off the edge.

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