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Latzel: the Pope was an “exceptional figure of Christianity”
Dusseldorf The president of the Evangelical Church of the Rhineland, Thorsten Latzel, expressed his condolences and condolences to the Catholic Church on the death of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI. expressed. According to the regional church office, Latzel wrote in a letter of condolence that Benedict was “an impressive personality and an outstanding figure in the history of Christianity in the 20th and 21st centuries.”
In numerous theological, ecclesiastical and social matters, Pope Benedict XVI. and the evangelical church have markedly different views, according to Latzel. “In any case, he was an expert and stimulating interlocutor for us and for many people in global ecumenism”.
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