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The four bishops, including Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki of Cologne, instead appealed for unity with the universal Church. 

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ANALYSIS: Bishop Bertram Meier of Augsburg has long positioned himself as a sort of ‘middleman’ between the Vatican and the German bishops — making his recent...

Facing an "unprecedented crisis and dying a painful death."

The Catholic Church in Germany is grappling with an unprecedented crisis as new figures released by the German Bishops Conference on June 28 reveal that over half a million baptized Catholics ...

Despite these departures, Church statistics for 2022 show that nearly 21 million people in Germany remained officially Catholic by the end of the year, repres...

With the highest number of departures ever recorded, several German bishops have expressed dismay over the figures.

BONN, Germany (OSV News) -- Four bishops have for the time being put the brakes on plans to continue the reform process of the Catholic Church in Germany. The German Bishops Conference must now look for alternative funding for the planned synodal committee, which was to put the Synodal Path on a permanent footing, the KNA news agency reported. The committee was to prepare a Synodal Council in which bishops and laypeople would jointly discuss and decide on matters concerning the Catholic Churc

The reform process is to lead to a permanent Synodal Council in 2026 through an intermediate step in the form of a synodal committee

Four German bishops have blocked funding for the synodal council that was approved by the German episcopal conference despite Vatican disapproval.