Rainer Maria Woekli is the Archbishop of Berlin and the youngest member of the College of Cardinals. In a recent interview he gave some sensible and sensitive responses about a number of matters in the life of the Catholic Church today, among them the Vatileaks scandal and the pastoral care of homosexuals and divorced and remarried Catholics. An English translation can be found here; the German original here.http://cathcon.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/worlds-youngest-cardinal-equates… Maria Woekli is the Archbishop of Berlin and the youngest member of the College of Cardinals. In a recent interview he gave some sensible and sensitive responses about a number of matters in the life of the Catholic Church today, among them the Vatileaks scandal and the pastoral care of homosexuals and of divorced and remarried Catholics. An English translation can be found here; the German original here.

Rev. Joseph A. Komonchak, professor emeritus of the School of Theology and Religious Studies at the Catholic University of America, is a retired priest of the Archdiocese of New York.

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