And yet again from the Tablet, one German cardinal strongly critiques another.

Germany’s leading conservative cardinal has bitterly criticised Cardinal Karl Lehmann, the Archbishop of Mainz, for allowing dissident theologians to express their views at last month’s annual Katholikentag conference.

Cardinal Joachim Meisner, Archbishop of Cologne, criticised Lehmann, who is the president of the German bishops’ conference, in a hard-hitting article for the Cologne diocesan newspaper. Cardinal Meisner accused Lehmann of liberalism and excessive doctrinal tolerance, which he claims was manifested at the conference in Ulm. Meisner is forming a group of conservative priests and lay people together to denounce liberalism in the German Church.

Can you even imagine one US prelate strongly and openly criticizing another? I can’t.