Update: Swiss Cardinal Apologises for Nazi reference
By CNS – In a meeting with the president of the German bishops’ conference, Swiss Cardinal Kurt Koch apologised for offending people and said he never intended...
By CNS – In a meeting with the president of the German bishops’ conference, Swiss Cardinal Kurt Koch apologised for offending people and said he never intended...
By CNS – The fourth plenary assembly of the Synodal Path in Frankfurt ended with a series of far-reaching reform resolutions. They concern, for example, the position...
By CNS – The plenary assembly of the German Synodal Path meeting in Frankfurt on Sept. 8-10 will start by debating a 32-page text on sexual morality,...
By CNS – Participants will face a packed agenda and heated debate at the upcoming fourth plenary assembly of the Synodal Path reform project on the future...
Abuse / Bishops / Church / Crisis
by CNS · Published August 16, 2022 · Last modified August 26, 2022
By CNS -A recent report on the public relations strategy used by Cologne Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki during a clerical sex abuse scandal has provoked renewed controversy,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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