Bishop Peter Kohlgraf of Mainz has criticised the withdrawal of four German bishops from the continuation of the Synodal Path reform project.
The full list of participants for the upcoming Synod of Bishops, released July 7.
Several prominent female theologians in Germany have said they have received hate mail and even death threats because they advocate reforms in the Catholic Church.
Bishops and laypeople’s representatives in Germany have agreed to continue the Synodal Path reform project despite dissent among the bishops and warnings from the Vatican.
In the Catholic Church in Germany, church tax revenue amounted to 6.848 billion euros in 2022, thus reaching a new high. In 2021 it was 6.732 billion.
The theologian Thomas Soeding has reiterated his call for reforms in light of the wave of resignations from the Catholic Church in Germany.
The Catholic Church in Germany, shaken by the abuse scandal, is continuing to shrink with more than half a million people quitting it last year.
Bishop Stefan Oster from Passau in southern Germany has explained why he voted against the establishment of a reform committee and the release of financial
The bishops Gregor Maria Hanke (Eichstaett), Stefan Oster (Passau), Rudolf Voderholzer (Regensburg) and Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki (Cologne) voted against the planned financing of the
Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich: “The five working sheets of the instrumentum laboris take into consideration the diversity of persons as well as the diversity of social,
