Reto Nay

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Reto Nay (born January 1, 1962 in Ilanz , Canton of Graubünden ) is a Swiss Roman Catholic priest , exegete and internet activist. Because of his work on right-wing extremist websites, he was dismissed by the Chur diocese .

Life

Reto Nay was on 1 January 1962 in Ilanz (Romansch Glion ) in the canton of Grisons born heimatberechtigt he is in the Grisons political community Trun . After graduating from the high school of the Benedictine monastery Disentis (Romansh Mustér), he entered the diocesan seminary in Chur in 1982 and completed his semester abroad in the academic year of the Dormition Mariae abbey in Jerusalem .

Academic activity

After completing his basic studies, he moved to Rome in 1987 to the Pontifical Biblical Institute . In 1997 he defended his doctorate on Yahweh in Dialogue. A communication-analytical investigation of Ez 14.1–11 with summa cum laude .

After completing his studies, Reto Nay came to Austria and was Professor of Old and New Testament at the International Theological Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family in the Charterhouse Gaming for several years . This was later followed by teaching assignments at the in-house theological training institute of the Servants of Jesus and Mary in Blindenmarkt and for a few years as a guest lecturer at the Gustav Siewerth Academy .

Journalism

Reto Nay has worked in various media that see themselves as Roman Catholic, such as the radio station Radio Horeb , the Internet television K-TV , Radio Maria , the online magazine kath.net , the Catholic-traditionalist specialist journal Theologisches , the video portal gloria.tv and the right-wing extremist blog kreuz.net (for the last-mentioned websites, see also section controversies ).

Pastoral care

In 1991 Nay was ordained a priest in the Diocese of Chur. According to his own statements, in 2002 he moved to the northern Moldovan city ​​of Băl 2002i . In his book Der heilige Schein, the theologian David Berger claims that Nays disappeared in the period before Bishop Kurt Krenn's resignation in connection with the scandal surrounding the download of child pornographic photos in the St. Pölten seminary in July 2004. Reto Nay described this depiction as Defamation: He left the International Theological Institute after the end of the semester in agreement with the institute management in 2002.

From 2002 to 2006 Nay worked in Moldova according to his own statements in social projects and as a temporary priest in the north of the non-EU country. From September 2006 until his dismissal in March 2013, which was founded with his work for the video portal gloria.tv , Nay looked after the Catholic parish of the mountain village Sedrun ( Tujetsch parish ) as a pastor, for whose position he is at the instigation of the later bishop of Diocese of Chur , Vitus Huonder , had applied.

Controversy

Reto Nay's activities on the websites kreuz.net and gloria.tv are controversial and have led, among other things, to repeated conflicts with his diocesan bishop Vitus Huonder.

Case «kreuz.net»

In February 2012, he agreed to the publication of several of his articles on the website kreuz.net, which the German Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution had classified as unconstitutional, and was then cited for an interview by the Diocese of Chur . In June 2012, the Bishop of Chur, Vitus Huonder, stated that it was not appropriate for a priest in his diocese to publish on kreuz.net.

On December 2nd, 2012 kreuz.net was shut down; In August 2013, the kreuz.net computer was also confiscated during a house search of the two priests working on gloria.tv in Austria. Reto Nay and Markus Doppelbauer were named as the only employees of gloria.tv in the priesthood; the employee list has meanwhile been deleted.

Case «gloria.tv» and impeachment

Reto Nay is co-founder, active employee, authorized signatory and sole authorized signatory of the multilingual video portal gloria.tv. At the same time he is one of the two priests working for gloria.tv alongside Markus Doppelbauer.

On January 22, 2009, a text belittling the Holocaust was published on gloria.tv . Nay refused to delete the comment to the church newspaper of the Diocese of Linz on the grounds that "the whole Catholic spectrum is needed". The media law expert Walter Berka stated that there was a serious suspicion of a violation of the law prohibiting National Socialist re- employment. Nay stated that Austrian or German law was not relevant for gloria.tv, as the website was registered in Moldova .

On February 3, 2012, gloria.tv reported on an undercover campaign by ProLife supporters. The abortion opponents had therefore checked in October 2011 with the help of a private investigator whether Catholic clinics in Cologne prescribed the morning-after pill. The gloria.tv presenter Eva Doppelbauer called the names of the gynecologists who recommended emergency practices to the pseudo patient, where doctors worked “from the orbit of the abortion company Pro Familia ”, “in a denunciation style” . After an author from kreuz.net had informed the Archdiocese of Cologne about this, two rape victims were denied treatment and evidence preservation in Catholic hospitals in Cologne in December 2012.

On February 18, 2013, the English version of gloria.tv showed pictures of German bishops with swastikas because they had allowed the morning-after pill in the hospitals of their dioceses. The German Bishops' Conference expressly distanced itself from the website and announced that in future content from the church website kirche.tv may no longer be used by gloria.tv. The television editors of the Diocese of Würzburg had already deleted their channel on gloria.tv in mid-January . The daily blessing, which was produced under the care of the German Bishops' Conference, had to be removed from gloria.tv on February 20, 2013 following a prohibition order from the Catholic television work center. Burkhard Hose, pastor of the Catholic university community in Würzburg , filed a criminal complaint against gloria.tv for using symbols of unconstitutional organizations .

The Chur bishop Vitus Huonder asked Nay on February 20, 2013 to remove the offensive website from gloria.tv. Shortly after it was founded, Huonder had distributed a letter of recommendation for gloria.tv and provided the station with ideal support until 2013. As a result, Nay claimed that he was not responsible for the English-language texts and that he could not remove them. According to the diocese spokesman Giuseppe Gracia, the bishop did not feel entitled to take any further steps. At the same time, Bishop Huonder emphasized that employees in his diocese should not spread or support any defamatory or inflammatory ideas. However, Nay's further activity for gloria.tv was not prohibited.

In March 2013, gloria.tv described reporters from Spiegel TV who had researched the video portal in Switzerland as “stalkers” and accused them of Nazi methods ; gloria.tv used the swastika again, this time combined with the Spiegel TV logo. Before that, there had been violent attacks in Graubünden between employees from gloria.tv, including Reto Nay, and the Spiegel TV team. On March 11, 2013, the Bishop of Chur, Vitus Huonder, requested the headquarters of gloria.tv to delete all files associated with him from the website. On March 12, 2013 the Tujetsch community president Pancranzi Berther demanded the dismissal of Nays by the local bishopric if the priest did not resign from his work at gloria.tv and clearly distance himself from its activities. Berther added that his village did not want to be “a nest of extremists ”. On the same day there was a violent attack by three employees from gloria.tv on a camera team from RTL, in which an employee of the camera team from RTL was slightly injured.

On the evening of March 13, 2013, Reto Nay was released without notice from the Tujetsch parish . The diocese of Chur asked him to resign immediately from his work as pastor; otherwise the missio canonica would be withdrawn from him.

In March 2013, the Graubünden canton police initiated an investigation in connection with gloria.tv. The possible criminal offenses were not disclosed. On March 15, 2013, Nay was also removed from office by Bishop Huonder. Nay attributed this to a «witch hunt» on gloria.tv. The parish office in Sedrun announced on March 15, 2013 that Reto Nay had disappeared the day before and could no longer be found. Nay has remained in hiding since then. From April 2013, Nay preached again on gloria.tv and reported to the diocese of Chur, his whereabouts remained initially unknown.

On August 29, 2013 the name "gloria.tv" was removed from the name of the operating company; Reto Nay remained the sole authorized signatory under Doina Buzut. The new legal notice set up by gloria.tv in 2014 no longer names the operators and specified Moscow as their new headquarters. In 2017, the seat was relocated to Dover, Delaware, USA.

According to information from gloria.tv, Nay worked on the Greek island of Patmos in the following years . According to articles on gloria.tv, he preached in November 2017 in St. Pelagiberg (St. Gallen) in Switzerland.

Works (selection)

  • Yahweh in dialogue. Communication-analytical investigation of Ez 14,1-11 taking into account the dialogical framework in Ez 8-11 and Ez 20 (= Analecta biblica. Volume 141). Edizione Pontificio Istituto Biblico, Rome 1999, ISBN 88-7653-141-6 (also dissertation, Pontificio Istituto Biblico 1997).
  • The apocalypse of St. John. Live lectures on the island of Patmos, 2009 . Benedetto-Verlag, Aadorf 2010, ISBN 978-3-9523604-7-7 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rüdiger Soldt: Exclusive like Heidegger ; Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , July 9, 2013.
  2. ↑ Stefan Hayden, Reiner Schüller: Kath.net: Benedikts Internet-Garde , Der Standard , June 12, 2012
  3. ^ Reto Nay: St. Pölten is between Vienna and Linz ; ( Memento of April 11, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Website of the magazine Theologisches in the Internet Archive .
  4. ↑ a b c d Pascal Sigg, Joel Bedetti: Combat Catholicism: Don Reto, the riddle ; ( Memento from May 16, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Christ & World No. 17/2013. Recording in the Internet Archive
  5. ↑ David Berger: The holy glow: As a gay theologian in the Catholic Church ; Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-550-08855-1 .
  6. ↑ Don Reto Nay: Necessary corrections to the current Wikipedia article about myself , gloria.tv, August 2, 2014.
  7. ^ Deborah Sutter: radical priest Reto Nay dismissed without notice ; Limmattaler Zeitung , March 14, 2013.
  8. ↑ Hetzportal: kreuz.net state security unmasked ; in Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger from March 29, 2012
  9. ^ Daniel Klingenberg is not a serious journalist ; Article on gloria.tv from February 17th, 2012.
  10. ^ Daniel Klingenberg: Die Hardcore-Katholiken , St. Galler Tagblatt , February 17, 2012.
  11. ^ Daniel Klingenberg: "Jesus was not a populist" ( Memento from January 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), St. Galler Tagblatt, June 14, 2012
  12. ↑ Ursula Scheer: Wächter and Hetzer , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , September 5, 2012
  13. ↑ Internet portal kreuz.net currently offline , Kurier , December 2, 2012.
  14. ↑ Right-wing extremist content: computer confiscated from kreuz.net , Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger , August 10, 2013
  15. ↑ Hermann-Josef Frisch : Not church sheep, but courageous Christians. Patmos Publishing Group , August 26, 2014. ISBN 978-3-8436-0547-2
  16. ↑ Belgian Bishops' Conference : Oostenrijkse politie doet inval wegens aansporen tot haat ( Memento of October 22, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), August 12, 2013 (Flemish) .
  17. ↑ a b list of employees from gloria.tv, as of April 25, 2012 ( Memento from April 25, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  18. ↑ a b 'Causa gloria.tv': Investigations in Austria continue , kath.net, August 24, 2013.
  19. ↑ list of employees from gloria.tv ( memento from August 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), accessed November 2, 2011.
  20. ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung: Fundamentalist portal "gloria.tv" , from January 16, 2013 .
  21. ^ Robert Misik: Holy Bytes ( Memento from September 22, 2011 in the Internet Archive ); February 18, 2008.
  22. ↑ Swiss Commercial Register : Gloria TV Productions (GTVP), di Doina Buzut ( Memento of June 8, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on March 4, 2013.
  23. ^ Religious texts, rough customs and excellent contacts in Rome ( Memento from October 22, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), KirchenZeitung Linz, March 18, 2009.
  24. ↑ Reiner Burger: Catholic clinics: Let's denounce FAZ , January 23, 2013.
  25. ↑ Jörg Diehl and Birger Menke: Church clinics and abortion: Die Katholischeren Spiegel Online , January 21, 2013.
  26. ^ From deception to affair - Church and extreme forces , Westfälische Nachrichten , January 24, 2013.
  27. ↑ Joachim Frank: Catholic Hospital: Rejected for fear of deception Frankfurter Rundschau , January 19, 2013.
  28. ^ Agitation against German bishops , KNA report on Domradio , February 20, 2013.
  29. ^ Rudolf Neumaier: It has blessed itself , Süddeutsche Zeitung , February 21, 2013.
  30. ↑ Pastor reports gloria.tv because of swastika , Main-Post , March 4, 2013.
  31. ↑ Internet portal gloria.tv: Bishop of Chur rebukes a little , kipa-apic.ch, March 10, 2013.
  32. ↑ Swastikas on the screen: The trail leads to Sedrun ( memento from March 13, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), Die Südostschweiz , March 10, 2013.
  33. ↑ Hendrik Vöhringer: Radikalkatholisches gloria.tv: Hetzer in the name of the Lord , Spiegel Online , March 10, 2013.
  34. ↑ A. Bättig: The Hardcore Catholics with the Swastika , 20 minutes , March 11, 2013.
  35. ↑ Deborah Sutter, Radical Priest To Be Dismissed , 20 minutes, March 12, 2013.
  36. ↑ Additional statements to the current Wikipedia article about myself
  37. ↑ Radical priest Reto Nay released without notice , 20 minutes, March 14, 2013.
  38. ↑ The Graubünden canton police are now investigating gloria.tv , Die Südostschweiz, March 14, 2013.
  39. ↑ Switzerland: Gloria.tv employees dismissed by the bishop , Vatican Radio , March 15, 2013.
  40. ^ Heinz Niederleitner: Radikal homepage gloria.tv: Bishop dismisses priests ( Memento from March 21, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), Oberösterreichische Nachrichten , March 18, 2013.
  41. ^ Franco Brunner: "Victims of a witch hunt" , St. Galler Tagblatt, March 21, 2013.
  42. ^ The discharged pastor from Sedrun continues to preach on web TV , blick.ch , April 15, 2013.
  43. ↑ Amendment ( memo from December 15, 2014 in the archive.today web archive ) in the Swiss commercial register, accessed on December 15, 2014.
  44. ↑ gloria.tv: Imprint , accessed on December 15, 2014.
  45. ↑ gloria.tv: Imprint , accessed on January 14, 2018.
  46. ↑ Reto Nay: A very mixed picture of the church. gloria.tv from September 2015.
  47. ↑ Reto Nay: 4. How to gain distance from yourself. gloria.tv from January 12, 2018

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personal data
SURNAME Nay, Reto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss Roman Catholic priest, exegete and internet activist
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Ilanz / Glion (city) , Canton of Graubünden