kath.net

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kath.net
Catholic news
private news portal
languages German
operator Roland Noé
editorial staff Roland Noé
Registration Yes
On-line 1999 (currently online)
http://www.kath.net/

kath.net is a non-church online magazine operated in Austria , which presents daily news from the Roman Catholic Church as well as a press review with church-relevant topics. According to its own information, it is based on the teaching post of the Catholic Church. It was founded in 1999. The Vienna Cardinal Christoph Schönborn has criticized the portal and made it clear that it does not work on behalf of the Austrian Bishops' Conference and is not financed from church funds.

Organization and staff

The carrier is the kath.net association founded in 2000 . The co-founders include Roland Noé (née Biermeier), who has been working full-time in the organization and editing department at kath.net since 2001, and his sister Petra Knapp-Biermeier. Another editorial staff member is Roland Noé's wife Linda Noé. In addition, the editors include the priest Johannes M. Schwarz, who worked as a chaplain in the Liechtenstein parish Triesenberg and did his doctorate on The Fate of Unbaptized Children in the Theological Discussion of the Twentieth Century , and the catechist Stefan Maria Bolli, who was in the Swiss City Flums performs the function of a youth worker, but also offers a "school of faith", further Christoph Zeller-Zellenberg and Petra Lorleberg. The author and Vatican journalist Armin Schwibach works for the platform as the Vatican correspondent.

The editorial address is also the location of the Johanneszentrum, an institution that is operated under the joint sponsorship of kath.net and the Amici di Dio association.

overview

Kath.net brings reports from Germany , Austria , Switzerland , from the Roman Catholic Church in other parts of the world, as well as interviews with cardinals , bishops and personalities from this church. Vatican documents and Catholic books are also presented. kath.net also operates the online encyclopedia Kathpedia , which is committed to the Catholic faith. Kathpedia works on the wiki principle and primarily invites Catholic Christians to collaborative writing ; In March 2020, however, only one user worked regularly and often, an administrator occasionally and two other users sporadically. The web forum previously operated under the domain kathnews.com no longer exists as of February 2018.

The head office of the internet newspaper is in Linz (Austria), other employees of the editorial team work from Vienna , Graz and Munich as well as in Switzerland and Rome .

Supporters and funding

Kath.net is not an official church organ, but a private initiative with religious goals. After the Austrian Bishops' Conference stopped funding the project a few years ago, it is financed, among other things, from donations and the profit from the sale of reader trips and advertisements, as well as subsidies from the Church in Need . Supporters included the former bishop of St. Pölten, Kurt Krenn, and the archbishop of Vienna, Christoph Schönborn . Church in Need / Ostiesterhilfe transfers according to its own information to Kath.net an amount of 10,000 to 20,000 euros per year.

Content orientation

According to its own statements, the internet newspaper kath.net represents a conservative theological and socio-political standpoint, which should be based on the requirements of the teaching post of the Roman Catholic Church. According to its own statement, the editorial team of kath.net strives for the following goals: topicality, a content orientation that is obligatory for the teaching office of the church and the dissemination of information about church processes. Certain doctrinal positions of the Church are sometimes taken offensive. The authors who contributed to the theological character of the website included the Salzburg auxiliary bishop Andreas Laun as well as the theologians Josef Spindelböck and Reto Nay , who in the meantime has separated from kath.net in a dispute with Noé. Even the Fulda Bishops Heinz Josef Algermissen , of the Engelwerk belonging auxiliary bishop in the archdiocese of Astana , Athanasius Schneider ORC , and the bishop of Eichstätt Gregor Maria Hanke have written articles for kath.net. Another constant topic at kath.net is the criticism of the church tax system.

reception

Ferdinand Kaineder, as the spokesman for the Diocese of Linz at the time, criticized the online magazine's one-sided campaigns and considers the alleged anonymity and non-compliance with other journalistic principles to be questionable. The Jesuit Eckhard Bieger pointed out in an article for the Catholic Internet portal explizit.net critical to the alleged methodological similarities between the magazine Der Spiegel and kath.net and kreuz.net out. The ORF reported in his mission report of 24 January 2012 with the title church struggle on the Internet critical of kath.net and its influence.

In June 2012, Markus Kremser, press spokesman for the Augsburg diocese , said on kath.net that “people who are close to the right-wing extremist spectrum” regularly commented. The church historian Helmut Wagner from Linz stated that kath.net appeals to authorities and attacks everything that looks like democratization. Margit Hauft, the former president of the Upper Austria Catholic Action, spoke of “inhuman journalism”. Lukas Brühwiler-Frésey, President of the Catholic People's Party in Switzerland , also agreed : “The style and content of the official articles from kathisches.info are at least equal to those from kath.net, and the forum hardly contains more agitation than the forum from kath .net. Kath.net controls, in contrast to kathisches.info, the postings only 'randomly', but must technically allow any amount. The level of the postings can therefore not escape him. Even the prelates and organizations that support kath.net cannot do this without knowing this forum. The forum shows those who supply kath.net which clientele reacts to their contributions. New evangelization with this clientele should be difficult. ”Until 2013, the activities of kath.net were observed and commented on by Philip Saß through the German watch blog Episodenfisch . The Munich New Testament scholar Gerd Häfner also comments in his blog lectio brevior on the “journalistic” activity and the way in which the kath.net editorial team pursues information policy by deliberately (not) activating postings. Lukas Brühwiler-Frésey criticizes the lack of journalistic quality, the targeted reader guidance through selective posting activation and, above all, the inhuman tone in the forum: “Polemics against homosexuals, Protestants, parties represented in the Bundestag, German-speaking media, Catholic theologians and bishops also spread the forum kath.net - admittedly less sharp than kreuz.net. "

The kath.de editor Theo Hipp compares the work and journalistic activities of kreuz.net and kath.net and comes to the conclusion (for kath.net): “The scapegoats are presented in a stereotypical ritual sequence. There already seems to be a fixed procedure for this - be it planned or through practice. This is to be demonstrated using a specific case. The editors write a critical article garnished with suggestive remarks. Take z. B. the word 'Jesuit priest' and enter it in the search engine. Ten articles appear on it. Of these, nine (!) Are critical of the Jesuits. So one can almost assume that the term 'Jesuit priest' means the 'Halali' of the hunt. Then the following forists appear with astonishing regularity, who 'button up' the Jesuits, determine their non-catholicity and at some point demand that the Pope visit or dissolve the order: Dismas, Mysterium ineffabile, Kathole and Thadeusz. Similar patterns of interaction between the editorial team and the aforementioned forists can also be observed in other cases. Because the editorial team is heavily manipulating and controlling the forum, the forum must be largely taken into account when evaluating the portal. "

In particular, Roland Noé's practice of writing readers' contributions under his pseudonym Gandalf and commenting on the contributions of his own editorial team, often in crude language, has been criticized . On the other hand, readers' contributions who were critical of the editorial team or expressed their opinion would not be activated, which led to allegations of press censorship on the website . The Jesuit Eckhard Bieger criticizes that kath.net and kreuz.net personalize processes and want to “shoot” people: “They asked for the head of the secretary of the bishops' conference. Obviously, this is a sufficient goal for such a medium. If the hunt for the chosen person is successful, you gain respect. "

On February 28, 2015, Bishop of Passau, Stefan Oster , expressly distanced himself on Facebook from the “tendentious reporting” by kath.net and from the “polarization of bishops, priests, theologians in clear”, which the kath.net editors had promoted after him identifiable camps ”and the“ defamation of others ”in the kath.net forum.

In February 2015, Peter Wensierski pointed out in Spiegel magazine that kath.net “repeatedly made positive references to articles by Junge Freiheit ” and accused him of daily ammunitioning the “right wing of the church”.

In January 2016, the conservative journalist Liane Bednarz suspected in an article in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung that some kath.net authors such as the theologian Hubert Windisch as well as the journalists Peter Winnemöller and Alexander Kissler connected to right-wing populist and right-wing extremist ideas of Pegida and Alternative für Deutschland .

According to Angelika Strube, kath.net helps by referring “positively to new right and right-wing populist hinge organs” - Strube particularly mentions the Junge Freiheit and Politically Incorrect - “new right ideas and new right media to readers in the 'center of the church '". At the same time, kath.net is giving “new right media and ideologies a kind of 'church blessing'” and thereby making them appear “socially acceptable.” At the same time, kath.net has since May 2013 “initially in a campaign, for example before elections, now with regularity” with “ mostly with an explicitly positive, sympathetic undertone ”reports on the AfD. It acts as a "promotional drum for the AfD".

The President of the Central Committee of German Catholics , Thomas Sternberg , warned in December 2019 of right-wing national influences on parishes and church councils and in this context criticized the newspaper Die Tagespost as well as kath.net as "strongly acting church media" in this regard.

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See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ kath.net . Whois , accessed July 4, 2016.
  2. ↑ Incitement of the people? - Biologist after “kath.net” interview in court. In: kathisch.de . June 6, 2019, accessed June 6, 2019 .
  3. ^ Parish Triesenberg - parish. Archived from the original on April 11, 2008 ; Retrieved July 4, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Glaubensschule.ch: Imprint. August 20, 2007, archived from the original on January 19, 2012 ; Retrieved July 4, 2016 .
  5. ↑ HeiligenKreuz photo album / conference “God on the Web”, day 1.0. April 27, 2012, accessed on July 4, 2016 (photo by Christoph Zeller-Zellberg from a photo report from the conference God in the Web about the dangers and potential of evangelism on the Internet at Heiligenkreuz Abbey ).
  6. ↑ a b Petra Lorleberg: Do you believe in the presence of Jesus in the Eucharist? In: kath.net. April 9, 2014, accessed July 4, 2019 .
  7. ^ Homepage of the Johanneszentrum at kath.net. Archived from the original on February 20, 2006 ; Retrieved July 4, 2016 .
  8. ^ Website of the Amici di Dio. 2009, archived from the original on May 12, 2009 ; Retrieved July 4, 2016 .
  9. ^ Sponsorship of the Johanneszentrum. Archived from the original on July 19, 2006 ; Retrieved July 19, 2006 .
  10. ↑ Active users. In: kathpedia.com. Retrieved March 23, 2020 .
  11. ^ Kath.net # Financing. In: Kathpedia . February 11, 2016, accessed March 23, 2019 .
  12. ^ A b Stefan Hayden, Reiner Schüller: Kath.net: Benedikts Internet-Garde. In: derStandard.at . June 12, 2012, accessed June 21, 2018 .
  13. ↑ a b Pious texts, rough customs and excellent contacts in Rome. In: Vorarlberger Kirchenblatt. March 22, 2009. Retrieved July 4, 2016 .
  14. ↑ Joel Bedetti, Pascal Sigg: Reto Nay: They call him Don Reto. In: The time . April 18, 2013, archived from the original on April 29, 2013 ; accessed on June 21, 2018 .
  15. ↑ a b Gabriele Ingenthron: Anonymous agitation in the net. In: Donaukurier . June 5, 2012, accessed July 4, 2016 . Barbara Wenz: 'Recherchequeen' Gabriele Ingenthron, Markus Kremser and the BDKJ. June 7, 2012, accessed July 4, 2016 .
  16. ↑ Headings and short texts searched for 'Athanasius Schneider'. In: kath.net. Retrieved June 21, 2018 .
  17. ↑ a b c Eckhard Bieger: kreuz.net, kath.net and the mirror. In: explicit.net. December 14, 2011, archived from the original on February 7, 2012 ; accessed on June 6, 2019 . Theo Hipp: How does a Christian-Catholic profile on the Internet come about? In: explicit.net. December 19, 2011, archived from the original on February 11, 2012 ; accessed on June 6, 2019 . Eckhard Bieger: Bringing Faith and Church into Conversation. In: explicit.net. December 21, 2011, archived from the original on February 14, 2012 ; accessed on June 6, 2019 . When the truth is forbidden! In: kath.net. December 16, 2011, accessed June 6, 2019 .
  18. ^ Program ORF 2 Wednesday 25 January 2012. In: Das-TV-Programm.de. Archived from the original on October 17, 2013 ; Retrieved July 4, 2016 .
  19. ↑ a b Lukas Brühwiler-Frésey: Francis is leading the way - kath.net is screwing back. In: Website of the Catholic People's Party of Switzerland . June 8, 2013, accessed July 4, 2016 .
  20. ↑ Stefan Hayden, Rainer Schüller: How does kath.net work? In: derStandard.at . June 12, 2012, accessed July 4, 2016 . Philip Saß: Episode fish. In: kath.net-Watchblog. March 5, 2012, archived from the original on March 7, 2012 ; Retrieved July 4, 2016 .
  21. ^ Gerd Häfner: Easter sermon. In: lectiobrevior.de. March 7, 2015, accessed July 4, 2016 .
  22. ↑ Klaus B: Experience report from the kath.net forum. In: Episodenfisch. September 13, 2011, archived from the original on December 28, 2014 ; Retrieved July 4, 2016 .
  23. ^ Stefan Oster: Posting. In: Facebook . February 28, 2015, accessed July 4, 2016 . D: Bishop Oster criticizes kath.net. In: Vatican Radio . March 1, 2015, accessed July 4, 2016 .
  24. ↑ Peter Wensierski : Religion: Pious Radicals. In: Der Spiegel . 9/2015, February 22, 2015, p. 39 , accessed on July 4, 2016 .
  25. ^ Liane Bednarz: Conservative Christians: The Radicals. In: faz.net . February 1, 2016, accessed July 4, 2016 .
  26. ↑ Angelika Strube: The right hinge . In: Publik-Forum 2/2012, January 27, 2012, page 36.
  27. ↑ Sonja Angelika Strube: Christian supporters of the AfD. Milieus, intersections, alliances. In: Stefan Orth, Volker Resing: AfD, Pegida and Co .: Attack on religion? Herder Verlag, 2017, p. 36
  28. ^ Jörg Köpke: Catholic and nationalistic. In: Berliner Zeitung , number 294, December 18, 2019, p. 4.