"Amen, I say to you, that no prophet is accepted in his own country." (St. Luke iv, 24)
Around 100 members of the lower House of the German Parliament (the Bundestag) plan to boycott the visit of the pope to their House, on September 22 (several sources, including, for instance, Mittelbayerische). Most, of course are members of the post-Communist Die Linke ("The Left") or the post-Communist members of Die Grünen ("The Watermelons": green on the outside...). Stalin's heirs, both pink and green, cannot stand the fact that the Papacy had some divisions after all.
One of the Watermelon members of the Bundestag, Volker Beck, also made headlines this week by criticizing the Pope for speaking to the Fraternity of Saint Pius X - according to him, a "hardcore-antisemitische und antidemokratische Sekte" (to which the Society's German District responded today by telling him, "see you in Court"). The attack was so out of line that the new Archbishop of Berlin, Rainer Woelki, had to defend the Fraternity - in what must be a first in the history of the post-Conciliar German Episcopate.
One of the Watermelon members of the Bundestag, Volker Beck, also made headlines this week by criticizing the Pope for speaking to the Fraternity of Saint Pius X - according to him, a "hardcore-antisemitische und antidemokratische Sekte" (to which the Society's German District responded today by telling him, "see you in Court"). The attack was so out of line that the new Archbishop of Berlin, Rainer Woelki, had to defend the Fraternity - in what must be a first in the history of the post-Conciliar German Episcopate.
