Vatican: German Synodal Path Must Not Create New Structures or Doctrines
By Cindy Wooden – “It seems necessary to make it clear that the ‘Synodal Path’ in Germany does not have the power to compel bishops and the...
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German Bishops See Crisis as Catholics Resign from the Church
By Thomas Winkel and Joachim Heinz – For the first time in the history of Germany, less than half the German population registered as members of one...
Vatican exonerates Cardinal Woelki in financial investigation
By CNS – The Vatican believes Cologne Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki and his vicar general, Msgr. Markus Hofmann, did not violate canon law in their funding of...
Cologne Catholics Who Answer Survey Demand Curbs on Leaders’ Power
By CNS – Archdiocesan Catholics who responded to a survey preparing for the 2023 worldwide Synod of Bishops on synodality called for some big changes in the...
German Bishop Responds to Letter Criticising Synodal Path
By Barb Fraze – The head of the German bishops’ conference responded to an open letter from more than 70 bishops from four continents and expressed surprise...
Bishops from Four Continents Express Concern about Germany’s Synodal Path
By Greg Erlandson – In an open letter, 74 bishops from North America, Africa, Italy and Australia have expressed their “growing concern” about the German Synodal Path...
German cardinal calls for change in church teaching on homosexuality
By CNS – Munich Cardinal Reinhard Marx has called for a change in Catholic teaching on homosexuality, reported the German Catholic news agency KNA. “The catechism is not...
Cardinal Woelki Offers to Resign
By CNS – Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki has ended his five-month sabbatical and resumed work as archbishop of Cologne. However, the cardinal, criticised for his handling of...
What happens next with texts approved by Germany’s Synodal Assembly?
By Ludwig Ring-Eifel – In early February, the plenary assembly of the Synodal Path met in Frankfurt and approved a number of far-reaching reform proposals for the Catholic...
German ‘Synodal Way’ members back text calling for women priests
Participants in the German Catholic Church’s “Synodal Way” voted in favour of a text calling for the ordination of women priests. CNA Deutsch, CNA’s German-language news partner,...
German Synodal Assembly opens with calls for change, but some object
By Anli Serfontein – The third German Synodal Assembly spent hours discussing church issues and, by the end of its first day, adopted two texts that delegates hope...
German Synodal Assembly Delegates Face Pressure to Produce Change
By Anli Serfontein – Sexual abuse has cast a long shadow over the German Catholic Church in the past 12 years. Now, it is overshadowing the third...
