CNA Staff, Feb 26, 2021 / 04:00 am
The president of the German Catholic bishops' conference said on Thursday that he would continue to give Holy Communion to Protestants who ask for it.
Bishop Georg Bätzing told journalists at a press conference on Feb. 25 that it was necessary to respect the "personal decision of conscience" of those seeking to receive Communion.
CNA Deutsch, CNA's German-language news partner, reported that Bätzing was responding to a question about a controversial proposal for a "Eucharistic meal fellowship" between Catholics and Protestants.
The proposal was made by the Ecumenical Study Group of Protestant and Catholic Theologians (known by its German initials, ÖAK) in a 2019 document entitled "Together at the Lord's Table."