Before the conclave: Carolin Kebekus would do that as a pope

Carolin Kebekus would open the priesthood for women as a pope. “My key points would be: reappraisal and compensation for victims of sexual abuse and access for women to the consecration offices in order to improve the patriarchal power system,” said the comedian of the German Press Agency in Cologne.

“Only then can the Catholic Church continue to exist,” says Kebekus (44). “And we all could use a cosmopolitan church in which we all find a protected place.”

From the new Pope, who is to be elected from May 7th, they wish that he will finally make the consecration of women possible. Pope Francis left it on this point, especially in many beautiful words.

In other areas, however, Kebekus knows how to appreciate the late Pontifex: “Pope Francis stood for some good things.” To do this, she calculates the “dialogue with other religions, its commitment to environmental protection or his commitment to refugees, arms and delimited”.

Kebekus applied to the German bishops as a poppy

Kebekus herself left the church itself, but continues to consider itself as a Catholic. The Grimme award winner has repeatedly taken a critical look at the Catholic Church.

Once the Westdeutsche Rundfunk (WDR) took out a church satire of her from the program, in which she licked a crucifix as a rapping nun and raised the skirt in front of the crucified Jesus. More than 100 criminal complaints and several threats of murder were received at the time.

For a contribution in the “Today Show” she applied to the German bishops as a pope. Comment from the then Cologne Archbishop Cardinal Joachim Meisner: “You don’t have the figure.”

The pope election will also be the topic in the new edition of the “Carolin Kebekus Show”, which on Thursday (1.5th) is not seen as usual at 11:35 p.m., but at 00:35 in the first (on the night of May 2) – and from 8:15 p.m. on May Mediathek.