Page 12 - Synodal Path News Today

The Catholic Bishops' Conference in Germany wants to create a Synodal Council out of both clerics and lay people, but the Vatican has declared its rejection of this plan.

Four women who have been participating as delegates in the German bishops’ Synodal Path initiative had dropped out of the effort, citing the attacks on Church teachings and the dangers of schism.

Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich, archbishop of Luxembourg (left) and Cardinal Mario Grech, secretary general of the Synod of Bishops / Daniel Ibáñez/CNA CNA Newsroom, Feb 14, 2023 / 07:40 am (CNA). A key organizer of the Synod on Synodality says...

Irme Stetter-Karp, president of the Central Committee of German Catholics. / zdk.de. Prague, Czech Republic, Feb 8, 2023 / 11:10 am (CNA). A leader of the controversial German Synodal Way said in a speech at Europe’s synod meeting Wednesday tha...

Germany's bishops do not have the authority to establish a permanent decision-making body of bishops and laypeople that top Vatican officials said would supersede the authority of the country's bishops' conference, according to a letter from the officials published on January 23.

Irme Stetter-Karp, president of the Central Committee of German Catholics. / zdk.de.Prague, Czech Republic, Feb 8, 2023 / 11:10 am (CNA).A leader of the controversial German Synodal Way said in a speech at Europes synod meeting Wednesday that the exclusion of women from ordination drives women from the Church.Irme Stetter-Karp, the president of the lay Central Committee of German Catholics (ZdK), addressed delegates in the meeting in Prague on Feb. 8."The stubborn adherence to the dual anth...

The Diocese of Limburg has published a new brochure entitled, “Guidelines for competence in sex education in the pastoral care/areas of activity of the Church.” In these guidelines, Catholic views are abandoned and a new image of the human being and of sexuality is presented, which is oriented towards gender ideology.

Germany's bishops do not have the authority to establish a permanent decision-making body of bishops and laypeople that top Vatican officials said would supersede the authority of the country's bishops' conference, according to a letter from the officials published Jan. 23.

Cardinal Reinhard Marx and fellow bishops from Germany meeting with Pope Francis at the Vatican, Nov. 17, 2022 / Vatican MediaCNA Newsroom, Jan 25, 2023 / 15:41 pm (CNA).In an interview published Wednesday, Pope Francis decried the German Synodal Way as elitist, unhelpful, and running the risk of bringing ideological harm to Church processes."The German experience does not help," the pontiff told Associated Press when asked about the controversial process, explaining that dialogue shou...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis has warned there’s a risk that a reform process in the German Catholic Church over calls for married priests and other possible liberalizing reforms might become harmfully “ideological.”