The ‘Hitler card?’ Why Vatican cardinal and German bishop are clashing after ‘Nazi’ remark

A bishop demands an apology after a cardinal compared the German synodal way to a Nazi-era Christian sect. Here's the deal.

Germany’s most prominent bishop issued an almost 1,000-word statement Friday denouncing a Vatican cardinal.

Bishop Georg Bätzing lamented what he called Cardinal Kurt Koch’s “untenable statements” about the German “synodal way”: a multi-year initiative bringing together bishops and lay people to discuss power, the priesthood, women in the Church, and sex…