If priests in any other country, including Germany, had refused to accept the appointment of a bishop from a different clan, I would imagine that the Holy Father would have intervened. A sure mark of any Christian, let alone an ordained Catholic priest, is belief that "there is no longer Jew or Gentile, slave or free, male and female. For you are all one in Christ Jesus." We are the Mysticsl Body of Christ. There is no room for petty tribalism here. There is no "far away country" here either ... I live in Africa ... Catholic seminary here teaches the same Gospel, which is universal ... i.e. Catholic. I thought that conservatives like yourself would have understood this!