CNA Newsroom, 08 November, 2024 / 1:25 pm (ACI Africa).
A day after Donald Trump won reelection to the U.S. presidency and Germany’s coalition government collapsed, Cardinal Reinhard Marx of Munich sought to calm fears about political instability in Europe’s largest economy.
“No civil war is threatening us,” Marx said Thursday during the closing press conference of the Bavarian bishops’ fall assembly in Munich.
“Rather, we can make a new beginning in an orderly way,” the cardinal said, according to CNA Deutsch, CNA’s German-language news partner.
“I believe we underestimate in our country what it means to have functioning institutions that can also deal with difficult situations,” Marx added.
The current chairman of the German Bishops’ Conference, Bishop Georg Bätzing of Limburg, also weighed in on the situation, urging the need for social cohesion and solidarity.