‘Inquisitors Posing as Humanists’ — How Dostoevsky Helps Explain the German Bishops

March 29, 2021 AM 1260 The Rock News

The newly appointed Secretary General of the German Bishops’ Conference, Beate Gilles (second from left), and the Chairman of the German Bishops’ Conference, Cardinal Georg Bätzing (second from right) together with the Secretary of the Bishops’ Conference Ulrich Pöner (left) and spokesman Matthias Kopp, address a press conference during a two-day virtual meeting in Bonn, Germany, on Feb. 23.

The story of the “Grand Inquisitor” in The Brothers Karamazov provides a key to understanding what is happening today in Germany.