Bernhard Müller
Die Welt
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One of its publishing subsidiaries, Blue Panther Books, is an erotica imprint that carries titles such as Sluts’ Boarding School, Lawyer’s Whore, and F---able. And that’s not all. Weltbild also “earns a lot of money” from books that glorify violence or promote “magic and Satanism,” as well as those by noted atheist Richard Dawkins.
In response to the revelations, Germany’s Catholic bishops put out a terse statement last week saying that Weltbild “tries to prevent the distribution of possibly pornographic content.” But apparently it’s not trying very hard. It’s been more than three years since a group of concerned Catholics wrote the bishops a letter listing some of the offensive books and asking that the company cease printing such materials—yet nothing has changed. That leaves the church “still preaching chastity while selling porn.”
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