Coinciding with another German bishop officially approving blessings for same-sex couples in his diocese, the reform dialogue in Germany is set to enter its next
Pope Francis has not accepted the resignation offer submitted by Cologne Archbishop Rainer Maria Woelki, according to an assessment by the Freiburg-based canon law expert
Bishop Franz-Josef Overbeck of Essen has given a positive assessment of the Synod on Synodality of the Catholic Church which ended on Sunday.
German Cardinal Walter Kasper has called for the role of women in the Church to be upgraded and for greater respect to be shown towards
On Monday afternoon, the Vatican Communications Office announced that the adoption of a “Message to the People of God”, originally planned for Monday midday, would
The bishop of Essen, Franz-Josef Overbeck, has said the ongoing Synod on Synodality in Rome was addressing many questions being asked by Catholics in Germany.
Only one in five people in Germany believe that Pope Francis can modernise the Catholic Church. Nine years ago, it was one in two.
Several German Catholic bishops voiced their expectations of the World Synod at the autumn plenary assembly of the German Bishops’ Conference in Wiesbaden on Wednesday.
Polish Archbishop Stanislaw Gadecki, has intensified his criticism of the Catholic Church in Germany, saying it is going through its greatest crisis since the Reformation
The president of the German Bishops’ Conference, Bishop Georg Baetzing, has said he disagrees with the Vatican’s ban on the ordination of homosexual men to
