kreuz.net

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kreuz.net was a German-language, catholic-traditionalist website with religion and church-related texts. It also spread right-wing extremist , anti-Semitic , misogynistic , homophobic , defamatory , racist and Islamophobic content. The site existed from 2004 until December 2012, the domain was on 14 May 2002 registered Service. The anonymous operators claimed to be full-time employees of the Roman Catholic Church.

All German-speaking bishops' conferences , the editorial staff of Vatican Radio (as the official medium of the Holy See ) and several German-speaking dioceses distanced themselves from kreuz.net. However, there were no church sanctions in this matter against church employees and priests who had become known who wrote for kreuz.net .

The website was indexed by the Federal Inspectorate for Media Harmful to Young People in Germany . The portal was observed by constitutional protection authorities in Germany and Austria, and the Berlin public prosecutor started investigations into suspicion of sedition in 2012. In December 2012, kreuz.net was shut down; the computer was confiscated by the Austrian police in August 2013.

concept

The website has been in operation since October 2004 and published contributions submitted by name or anonymously as well as own contributions. The editorial team of kreuz.net published several articles every day in the editorial section, which registered users could comment on, including initially for each day the so-called cross messages, in which messages from all over the world were summarized, as well as articles in comment form . The editorial staff of kreuz.net influenced the course of the reader discussions by deleting critical reader comments. Until July 2011, users were able to create their own articles in a now deleted area known as the readers' newspaper , some of which were included in the editorial section.

Subject

In the opinion of Michael Sontheimer and Peter Wensierski, kreuz.net offered "Eiferern" a platform for the dissemination of "right-wing extremist, allegedly Catholic positions" in an article in Spiegel Online magazine . Topics included: rejection of abortion and euthanasia , homosexuality and the Second Vatican Council , Catholic traditionalism, reports on and advertising for church music , private revelations and new spiritual communities , creationism , hostility to Islam and the spread of anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial . The aggressive language used was described by the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung as "the striker's agitated vocabulary ". For this purpose, neological creations - mostly pejorative - were often used in certain subject areas . The historian and publicist Volker Weiß and the Central Council of Jews in Germany classify kreuz.net as a hate website .

Operator group "Sodalicium for Religion and Information"

The imprint referred to an address in the United States : Sodalicium for Religion and Information ("Association for Religion and Information"), 1018 E. Mariposa Ave, El Segundo , CA 90245-3114 USA. Until December 2004, the imprint was still "Prof. P. G. Ferocior ”(Latin ferocior , comparative of ferox, -cis , means“ wilder ”or“ more violent ”or“ grimmer ”) named as the person responsible; whether this was a pseudonym is unknown. More recent records on the site (since February 2005) have no longer included this name.

The operators of kreuz.net were not known to the public as such until a search in August 2013 . They described themselves as “an initiative of an international private group of Catholics in Europe and overseas who are full-time active in church service. Kreuz.net accepts information submitted without a name and considers it a point of honor to maintain the strict anonymity of its informants. ”The Whois mentioned an address in Panama City as the last address of the“ Sodalicium for Religion and Information ” .

Authors

Articles by the late activist Martin Humer , known as the "porn hunter" , the chairman of the right-wing extremist parties and associations Pro Köln , Pro NRW and the umbrella organization Pro-Movement Markus Beisicht , Cologne city councilor Regina Wilden (Pro Köln), appeared on kreuz.net . the politician Ewald Stadler ( FPÖ ), the journalist Mathias von Gersdorff , the federal chairman of the Austrian party CPÖ Alfons Adam , the Erlangen Holocaust denier Johannes Lerle who was convicted of sedition , the economist Friedrich Romig , the auxiliary bishop Athanasius Schneider ORC , who belongs to the Engelwerk , the former Jesuit Andreas Hönisch SJM (founder of the Catholic Scouting Union of Europe ), as well as the Holocaust denier Richard Williamson from London, referred to by kreuz.net as "hero bishop" .

Anti-Semitic speeches by Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad , anti-American speeches by Libyan President Muammar al-Gaddafi , texts by child and adolescent psychotherapist Christa Meves and articles by Christian Bärthel , an activist of a self-proclaimed “Commissary Reich Government” , were also published as contributions. Most of the texts were not marked by name. Occasionally there were articles by deceased people like Charles de Foucauld and Edgar Julius Jung , but also Joseph Goebbels and Heinrich Himmler . Individual articles appeared under code names, including that of the anti-Semitic Regensburg cathedral preacher Balthasar Hubmaier from the 16th century.

According to information from Spiegel Online "are or were (...) at least two dozen authors with a church background active on the Catholic news portal, some of which was classified as anti-constitutional, including priests, church employees and at least one religion teacher". On kreuz.net there were texts by the theologian Georg May from the diocese of Mainz , the religion teacher Hubert Hecker , who worked in the diocese of Limburg , and the priest Hendrick Jolie, a spokesman for the network of catholic priests . Rudolf Neumaier and Frederik Obermaier point out in the Süddeutsche Zeitung, among other things, that "church-political and liturgical" goals of kreuz.net and the network are identical and that until 2009 a kreuz.net live ticker was on the network's website. May stated that a text he wrote in the 1990s was published without his knowledge and without his will; he has nothing to do with kreuz.net. The diocese of Limburg declared that Hecker prohibited any publication on kreuz.net in 2010.

Hendrick Jolie initially stated that his texts had appeared on kreuz.net without his consent; the diocese of Mainz then announced that it saw no need to investigate the matter. For further information that Spiegel Online published in November 2012, including a text distributed by the Catholic Priests Network itself about an article by "Pastor Hendrick Jolie in kreuz.net on March 23, 2005" under the title "From priest to celebration fool?" Jolie doesn't comment; Both kreuz.net and the priest network deleted the Spiegel Online articles. On November 14, 2012, Jolie admitted that she was involved in kreuz.net. In comments on kreuz.net, Jolie had described Pope Preacher Raniero Cantalamessa and Curia Secretary Angelo Sodano as "brain gnomes". In a conversation with those responsible for the Diocese of Mainz on November 23, 2012, Jolie admitted that, contrary to earlier statements, he had also sent kreuz.net texts that dealt with issues of church politics and judgments, but also with people. He apologized for this in a letter to Cardinal Lehmann. The cardinal warned him to be sensitive to announcements in the future.

By analyzing the mail traffic with the kreuz.net editorial team, which was anonymously leaked to the Stop kreuz.net campaign , further authors of kreuz.net articles could be identified in November 2012: Walter B., a pensioner who was banned from entering Israel as Author of anti-Israel texts, Wilhelm D., a former religion teacher in Augsburg, and the anti-abortion opponent Andreas K. from Austria. All three confirmed their work as authors for kreuz.net.

Publicly received articles

→ Articles with criminal consequences are dealt with in the section on criminal law .

In 2007 an interview by a journalist from Regensburg appeared on kreuz.net, which Gloria von Thurn und Taxis had given about a pilgrimage of the Marian Women's Congregation, which she founded and leads . Kreuz.net was linked to their website until November 28, 2012.

In January 2009, one day before the official announcement, kreuz.net was informed about the appointment of Pastor Gerhard Maria Wagner from Windischgarsten as auxiliary bishop in Linz.

In December 2009, the Catholic news agency Kathpress reported that kreuz.net was distributing a document allegedly originating from the Congregation for Worship , but actually forged, called Musicam sacram fovere , which propagated a conservative liturgical reform .

In 2011, an internal document of the German Bishops' Conference on dealing with cases of sexual abuse within the Church was published on kreuz.net a few hours after its creation. The responsible person has not yet been known (as of September 2012).

reception

Statements from the Roman Catholic Church

2004-2009

The Roman Catholic German and Austrian Bishops' Conferences expressly distanced themselves from kreuz.net. The German Bishops' Conference accused kreuz.net of anti-Semitic statements and had press spokesman Matthias Kopp explain:

“Kreuz.net has distinguished itself through more than questionable statements in the past and present. The site has no official character. Continuous anti-Semitic derailments and constant cheap polemic agitation against German bishops are unbearable. "

The German Bishops' Conference has always distanced itself from kreuz.net.

The Austrian Bishops' Conference criticized "sectarian propaganda" . Vatican Radio , which had linked kreuz.net several times and used itself as a source from March 2005 to November 2008, also distanced itself in February 2009.

2010–2012

The Swiss Bishops' Conference stated that it was informed about kreuz.net, but did not want to react to its polemic against the Basel Bishop Felix Gmür in order not to attract any attention to the portal. In November 2012 she distanced herself from kreuz.net and stated that she could not explain why news from the diocese of Chur regularly appeared on kreuz.net.

Controversial content and the often aggressive language have often received criticism from kreuz.net, for example from the homosexual theologian David Berger and the Diocese of Linz . The Internet portal "apparently has good contacts with inner-church circles". Berger named in particular "contempt for women and extreme hostility to gays" as the bigoted motive of the "vulgar traditionalists", whereupon he was denied his right to live on kreuz.net. The threats against Berger spread on kreuz.net are known to the police.

In June 2011 Cardinal Meisner distanced himself from kreuz.net when he was reproached to the Archbishop of Cologne , Joachim Meisner , that he was on the one hand sharply attacked by kreuz.net, but on the other hand "cheered" for having deprived David Berger of the Missio canonica . Meisner particularly criticized the "spiteful and insulting style of many contributions" and stated that the conscious anonymity of authors and operators contradicted the sense of responsibility necessary for open communication. Meisner emphasized once again that kreuz.net was not an offer of the Catholic Church, but that due to the server location outside of the German legal area, it could not take legal action against their self-designation "Catholic".

In February 2012, kreuz.net author Reto Nay , founder of the kreuz.net-related Internet portal gloria.tv and at that time pastor of the Tujetsch parish , expressed his approval about kreuz.net and the subsequent publication of the articles he wrote there. The Diocese of Chur stated that they had no knowledge of these publications and quoted Nay for an interview. Freedom of expression applies to a priest of the diocese, but public statements should not contradict the Catholic faith and those who think differently should neither be discriminated against nor hurt. The diocese spokesman criticized kreuz.net as a website with "sometimes inhuman, discriminatory content". In June 2012, the Bishop of Chur, Vitus Huonder , declared that it was not appropriate for a priest in his diocese to publish on kreuz.net.

In March 2012, the spokesman for the German Bishops' Conference Matthias Kopp said in an interview with Cologne Cathedral Radio : “This page has nothing to do with the Catholic Church. The term Catholic is being misused here. "

Markus Reder, editor-in-chief of the newspaper Die Tagespost (Catholic newspaper for politics, society and culture) , wrote in March 2012: “This Internet portal means serious damage to the church. [...] What happens on its website is disgusting, primitive and has nothing to do with Christianity and the Catholic Church. You can't say that loud and clear enough. Here, in blatant contradiction to the Gospel, people are rushed and injected with poison. That affects language, style and content. "

In June 2012 the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising as well as the dioceses of Eichstätt , Augsburg and Regensburg criticized kreuz.net as a “inflammatory and inhuman website”. The Munich diocese spokesman Bernhard Kellner stated that even working at kreuz.net would have professional consequences in church circles.

After an abusive article published by kreuz.net against the homosexual actor Dirk Bach , who had suddenly died shortly before , the German Bishops' Conference again distanced itself and declared that the authors of articles with names drawn could not be found by them. Spiegel Online contradicted this representation. After the discovery of the collaboration of the priest Hendrick Jolie (see above) at kreuz.net, the bishops' conference commented that the website was “not a platform for Catholic priests”. The diocese of Mainz announced an "official, formal conversation" with Jolie and asked to refrain from prejudice. A responsible assessment of the allegations is only possible after the conversation. Jolie confessed to his texts, Bishop Karl Lehmann thanked him for this self-criticism and left it at a reprimand. On November 28, 2012, Jolie resigned from his position as spokesperson for the Catholic Priests Network .

The bishop of Rottenburg and Stuttgart , Gebhard Fürst , described kreuz.net in 2012 as a “criminal, inhuman voice with repulsive language” and declared that the church should not leave the field to kreuz.net. In November 2012, the Archbishop of Vienna , Cardinal Christoph Schönborn , declared that kreuz.net was “not a Catholic medium”. The State Committee of Catholics in Bavaria sharply criticized kreuz.net in 2012 and called on the German Bishops' Conference to resolutely oppose the style there; you couldn't excuse yourself not to know who was behind it. Matthias Neff, Weltanschauung advisor for the Diocese of Trier , announced that working with or contributing to kreuz.net is not compatible with service in the church.

On November 21, 2012, the media officer of the Austrian Bishops' Conference, Paul urged Wuthe kreuz.net to lock and operators criminally pursue. In the words of Archbishop Gerhard Ludwig Müller , Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith , kreuz.net has nothing to do with Christian faith .

The Trier bishop Stephan Ackermann criticized kreuz.net in his New Year's Eve sermon 2012. He said that individuals and groups practiced a way within the church to distinguish themselves from the “hostile world” and named kreuz.net as a particularly repulsive example of this It is not uncommon for people to get away with the pathos of those who “were the last to uphold the true teaching of the Church”.

2013-2014

In August 2013, the Diocese of Feldkirch agreed with Cardinal Schönborn's comments on kreuz.net the previous year.

At an information event organized by the Catholic Academy in Mülheim an der Ruhr on the subject of right-wing extremism in the Catholic Church, Klaus Pfeffer, Vicar General of the Diocese of Essen , described kreuz.net on July 3, 2014 as the “tip of an iceberg”. The diocese's press spokesman, Ulrich Lota, said the website was dead, but the sentiment was still alive. In its press release, the diocese described kreuz.net and gloria.tv as websites for “Christian hate preachers ” and compared the operators with jihadists and Islamists .

Reactions from politicians

In October 2012 politicians from Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen commented on kreuz.net. The party chairman Claudia Roth demanded that the police investigation against kreuz.net be extended to the people behind the website. The human rights policy spokesman for the Greens parliamentary group, Volker Beck , described the previous church measures against kreuz.net as inadequate and called on the Catholic Church to excommunicate Catholic employees and operators of kreuz.net. In November 2012 Beck handed over documents for kreuz.net to Hans-Georg Maaßen , President of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution . According to Beck, the actors at kreuz.net came mainly from Austria, but also from Cologne and Heidelberg .

The Austrian Federal deputies Marco Schreuder , Elisabeth Kerschbaum and Efgani Dönmez ( Green ) focused on 9 October 2012, a parliamentary question to police action against kreuz.net to Interior Minister Johanna Mikl-Leitner ( ÖVP ). On December 3, 2012, the minister gave information on previous investigations into the kreuz.net matter and stated that no criminal charges had been made ex officio.

In January 2013, Jimmy Schulz , member of the Bundestag and network politician of the FDP , named kreuz.net as an example of the disadvantages of anonymity on the Internet , which he supported in principle.

Classification by the state

Germany

The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution classifies kreuz.net as partially anti-Semitic and anti-Muslim . In response to a request from the parliamentary director of the Greens, Volker Beck, the President of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution, Heinz Fromm , replied that the web portal was characterized by “homophobic, anti-Muslim and anti-Semitic statements”. Many contributions are not covered by the fundamental right to freedom of expression and exceed the limits of criminal liability. The examination of kreuz.net was carried out by the department of the Federal Office responsible for right-wing extremism. According to the Office for the Protection of the Constitution, there were findings about cross-connections between kreuz.net and the right-wing extremist " Citizens' Movement for Cologne ".

In 2012, kreuz.net was not yet included in the constitution protection report, as the investigators could not assign the activity to a fixed group. In the 2013 report for the protection of the constitution for North Rhine-Westphalia, kreuz.net was cited as a “hate portal” in the right-wing extremism section.

Austria

The website was observed by the Austrian Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution and Counter Terrorism . As Karl-Heinz Grundböck, spokesman for the Austrian Ministry of the Interior, announced in October 2012, the authority has no research options at the server location in the USA.

Legal Aspects

civil right

In 2012 Google deleted several kreuz.net articles from the search results because they contained unlawful factual claims about Bettina Wulff .

In January 2013, the Hamburg Regional Court prohibited the historian Michael Hesemann from claiming that kreuz.net critic David Berger himself was one of the regular authors of kreuz.net.

Criminal law

Before shutdown

Because of the use of the Hitler salute in a kreuz.net article by Martin Humer for the cartoon series Popetown , Google Germany removed this article from the search results on January 10, 2007.

In January 2008, an investigation into hate speech against kreuz.net was closed. Because of the hosting in Arizona at the time and the associated refused request for legal assistance , the Berlin public prosecutor said : “In the course of the investigation, it was not possible to name a suspect”.

On March 16, 2010, the Austrian public prosecutor's office in Feldkirch closed an investigation into National Socialist re-employment , which was based on a criminal complaint in 2009.

In March 2012, the fugitive kreuz.net author Johannes Lerle , who had been in hiding since 2007, was arrested and imprisoned in Lübeck .

The Bruno Gmünder Verlag presented under Article on the death of Dirk Bach in October 2012 criminal charges of insulting the memory of the dead , insult, slander and defamation against the author of the article and against kreuz.net. The lesbian and gay association in Germany filed a criminal complaint for sedition in the same matter. In criminal cases specialized linguists began with the identification of anonymous kreuz.net-authors on the basis of linguistic idiosyncrasies.

In October 2012, preliminary proceedings were pending with the public prosecutor's offices in Frankfurt am Main, Cologne and Berlin. The German Bishops' Conference filed a criminal complaint against unknown persons.

In November 2012, six reports to the internet reporting office of the Austrian Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution and the Fight against Terrorism led to a criminal complaint for incitement to hatred with the Vienna public prosecutor. This then initiated a preliminary investigation into hate speech and National Socialist re-engagement .

After the shutdown

Shortly after the shutdown of kreuz.net, Guido Rodheudt, a spokesman for the network of Catholic priests , filed a criminal complaint against David Berger, who called Rodheudt a supporter of kreuz.net. According to Berger, the investigation was discontinued in March 2013 by the Aachen public prosecutor for lack of sufficient suspicion of a criminal act .

At the end of January 2013, the Berlin public prosecutor's office reported progress in the investigation against kreuz.net, primarily through cooperation with Austrian authorities; Parts of the proceedings were handed over to another German public prosecutor's office.

In the course of a raid by the Austrian police against kreuz.net and gloria.tv, the kreuz.net computer was confiscated in August 2013. The apartments of two priests from Upper Austria and Vienna were searched; both were accused of participating in right-wing, homophobic and anti-Semitic articles. The sister of the Viennese priest allegedly tried to delete data and prevent the police from taking the computer with them, and a police officer was injured. On August 11, 2013, the Austrian Ministry of the Interior confirmed the raids. The Feldkirch public prosecutor stated on August 12, 2013 that they had ordered the searches and later handed the case over to the public prosecutor there because of the crime scene in Vienna. On the same day the Belgian Bishops' Conference confirmed that both priests were employees of both kreuz.net and gloria.tv; For its part, gloria.tv named Reto Nay and Markus Doppelbauer as the only employees in the priesthood and Doppelbauer's sister Eva as an employee. The suspects received criminal charges but remained at large.

In September 2017, seven people were still investigated in Austria for incitement to hatred and crimes under the Prohibition Act on kreuz.net, as Justice Minister Wolfgang Brandstetter (ÖVP) confirmed at the request of the Greens in the National Council. The publisher of the website was among those investigated further. The Minister did not provide any information about the names of the accused, referring to the ongoing proceedings and a possible threat to the success of the investigation. A request for mutual assistance from the German investigative authorities was approved in Austria.

The domain reservation for kreuz.net expired on May 14, 2018. In September 2018, the former Green politician Karl Öllinger requested information from the Austrian judiciary in Vienna about what previous investigations against kreuz.net and gloria.tv had revealed.

Protection of minors

The website was indexed by the Federal Inspectorate for Media Harmful to Young People due to Holocaust denial and may therefore neither be openly advertised nor made accessible to children or young people in Germany, but was accessible without age verification until it was shut down on December 2, 2012 .

copyright

Most of the texts from kreuz.net have been published since autumn 2010 under the copyright license Creative Commons BY-NC-SA . Since November 5, 2012, the texts have been subject to the Creative Commons license BY-NC-ND , which means that no works derived from the kreuz.net texts concerned may be produced. Both licenses require the authors' consent to the non-commercial redistribution of the content if the author is named. The extent to which kreuz.net itself respected copyrights is controversial (see also section known authors ).

Negative opinions

Accusations were raised several times that the website had published content illegally . The editors of the newspaper Junge Freiheit accused an independent Aachen church musician of having published one of their articles without permission on kreuz.net and of having given his church music initiative as a source; the musician denied the allegations.

Approving opinions

In October 2007, the Aachen church musician Michael Tunger stated that he had approved the republication of articles he had written on kreuz.net without having been his collaborator. In November 2012, some authors of kreuz.net articles stated that their texts had been authorized and correctly handled by the editorial team.

Counterprojects

Websites

The counter-websites kreuts.net and Kreuznetmythen saw their main task in bringing criticism against kreuz.net. The Watch Blog Watch Kreuz.Net documented from January 2011 to January 2013 articles and comments from kreuz.net that violated in a particular way against the German legislation, and commented on them in the most polemical way.

Initiatives from private individuals

Due to complaints and reports from opponents of kreuz.net, the website operators were repeatedly forced to change web space providers. Between January and October 2012, different server locations in the USA , Romania and France were used. On October 5, 2012, kreuz.net was largely paralyzed by a DDoS attack . The attack was announced as #OpKreuzNet on Twitter by people who presented themselves as supporters of the Internet collective Anonymous .

"Stop kreuz.net" campaign

After the attention about the article against the deceased Dirk Bach, the Bruno Gmünder Verlag offered a so-called " bounty " of originally € 15,000 for information that should lead to the investigation and final conviction of the kreuz.net operator. This sum was continuously increased through donations . The coordination of the resulting Stop kreuz.net campaign was carried out by David Berger. In a letter to the German Bishops' Conference, the publisher invited them to support the action. The letter went unanswered.

According to the investigators from Stop kreuz.net, there are solid indications that kreuz.net is operated by people from the church service, including those from the highest church circles. A German-speaking bishop works with kreuz.net; Traces should lead to Austria , among other places . In every German diocese at least one episcopal institution has subscribed to the kreuz.net newsletter , in most cases it was the press offices. Four of the five “makers” of kreuz.net are Catholic diocesan priests , and several Pius Brothers worked as anonymous writers. The coordinator praised the Roman Catholic Church in Austria for their cooperation. On November 6, 2012, collected material was handed over to the Berlin public prosecutor. The Swiss Bishops' Conference supported the Bruno Gmünder Verlag campaign since November 29, 2012.

The Süddeutsche Zeitung rated the shutdown of kreuz.net on December 2, 2012 as a merit of the “Stop kreuz.net” campaign. Karl Cardinal Lehmann declared: “It is shameful for the church that the initiative of the Bruno Gmünder Verlag and the interest of the Federal Criminal Police Office together with the public debate put an end to the unholy goings-on. Unfortunately we didn't make it with our own resources. We therefore thank everyone who has contributed to the clarification, even if they are not friends of the Church ”. At the same time, Lehmann criticized opponents of kreuz.net who had exercised “comprehensive and fundamental church criticism” in the matter and defended his own approach in the matter.

The Bruno Gmünder Group filed for insolvency in 2014 , and the “head money” went to the bankruptcy estate . The founder of the publishing house Bruno Gmünder agreed that his share of € 10,000 would still be available as a reward to the person who led to the conviction of the kreuz.net operator.

Alleged successor pages

Since the end of kreuz.net, several alleged successors have appeared on the Internet under different but similar web addresses . A connection with kreuz.net could be secured for one of the offers, some of which were only active for a short time; these pages never achieved the importance of the model. After the operator of the website "kreuz-net.at" Günther Snow White Arnoldstein, has since 25 July 2017 because of incitement gefahndet. The operator was also the author of the original kreuz.net and is a member of the KaV Marco-Danubia Vienna student association . On September 5, 2017, the Vienna Regional Criminal Court sentenced him (not yet final) to a suspended sentence of four months with a probation period of three years.

Web links

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ a b Jonas Nonnenmann: God's Sledgehammer , Berliner Zeitung, September 28, 2011
  3. ^ A b c Daniel Klingenberg: Die Hardcore-Katholiken , St. Galler Tagblatt , February 17, 2012
  4. ↑ a b Kreuz.net is under criticism , n-tv , November 21, 2012
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  10. ↑ For example, FAZ editor Daniel Deckers wrote on June 20, 2010 in an article about the resignation of Walter Mixa: “In the internet portal“ kreuz.net ”operated by self-proclaimed orthodox believers, church events in German-speaking countries are reported daily on servers in the United States commented on in the agitated vocabulary of the "striker". "
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  17. ↑ Operator information for kreuz.net from January 23, 2017 ( Memento from January 23, 2017 in the web archive archive.today )
  18. ^ Mathias von Gersdorff: Fifty years too many. ( Memento from August 31, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) kreuz.net from August 23, 2006, in the Internet Archive
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  24. ^ Father Athanasius Schneider: Member of the angel work appointed bishop. ( Memento from October 13, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) kreuz.net from May 4, 2006, archived by archive.org , under CC-BY-NC-SA author's license
  25. ^ Andreas Hönisch: Scout crisis in Austria? P. Hönisch clarifies. ( Memento from January 26, 2018 in the web archive archive.today ) kreuz.net from January 10, 2005
  26. ^ Pope rehabilitates fundamentalist bishops. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . January 24, 2009. Retrieved January 25, 2009 .
  27. ^ Stefan Eiselin: Pope pardons notorious Holocaust deniers. In: Tages-Anzeiger . January 22, 2009. Retrieved January 25, 2009 .
  28. ↑ Length intervju med Williamson
  29. ↑ Williamson wrote in kreuz.net article 16100
  30. ↑ Peter Wensierski: How the Pius Brothers incite against Jews, Muslims and gays. In: Spiegel Online. February 3, 2009, accessed February 3, 2009 .
  31. ↑ Michael McAteer: Chief Canadian bishop denounces clergyman's anti-Jewish comments. In: Toronto Star . April 14, 1989, archived from the original on February 9, 2013 ; Retrieved February 8, 2009 .
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  34. ↑ kreuz.net article nos. 13703 and 13792, accessed on September 1, 2011
  35. ↑ So in the case of Article Nos. 12740, 12702, 11249 and 8493
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