Bishop Heinz Lederleitner, the highest-ranking official of the Austrian Old Catholic Church, gave iGlobenews an exclusive interview. Contrary to what the name suggests, the Old Catholic Church is a progressive and democratic church. Unlike the Roman Catholic Church, the Old Catholics welcome women priests, bless same sex marriages, include divorcees and do not demand celibacy for their priests. Bishop Lederleiter believes the Old Catholics are the more authentic and all-inclusive Catholics. Today, the existence of this 150-year-old church, whose founders left the Roman Catholic Church in 1870 in protest over the dogma of papal infallibility and authority, is still widely unknown.
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