Your Eminence:
I noted with interest your recent announcement of a “binding synodal process” during which the Church in Germany will discuss the celibacy of the Latin-rite Catholic priesthood, the Church’s sexual ethic, and clericalism, these being “issues” put on the table by the crisis of clerical sexual abuse.
Perhaps the following questions will help sharpen your discussions.
https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2019/03/an-open-letter-to-cardinal-reinhard-marx
https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2019/03/an-open-letter-to-cardinal-reinhard-marx