Word: baumer
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...Catholics, and includes more than a third of the world's 70 million Lutherans. But a good deal of the edginess was due to some undiplomatic doings by German Catholics. Before the papal visit, the hierarchy passed out 40,000 copies of a booklet in which Historian Remigius Baumer flailed away at the heresies of Martin Luther, referring to his "sadistic" writings, "excessive anger and polemicism" and deploring his marriage to an ex-nun, which was described as "a sacrilegious wedding, stained by fornication." Before the visit, too, the German bishops had intruded in the national elections with...
With considerably more grace than Baumer, John Paul cited the 450th anni versary and told a gathering of Lutheran leaders that Catholics must take their share of the blame for Luther's great schism: "We must do what unites. We owe that to God and the world." But when Lutheran Bishop Eduard Lohse pressed bluntly for joint Communion, John Paul said that full doctrinal agreement must come first...