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The most remarkable trend in German Catholicism is the mass movement of Catholics leaving the Church.

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Australian Cardinal George Pell, who died in Rome Jan. 10, never made a secret of his staunch adherence to established Catholic moral teaching and his concern about fellow cardinals and bishops he saw as willing to abandon that teaching.

ROME (CNS) -- Australian Cardinal George Pell, who died in Rome Jan. 10, never made a secret of his staunch adherence to established Catholic moral teaching and his concern about fellow cardinals and bishops he saw as willing to abandon that teaching. But in interviews he always was respectful of Pope Francis and argued repeatedly over the past 10 years that Catholics should not be attacking each other in the media, but calmly discussing their differences with each other. However, the Italian

The Spectator, a British magazine, has published an article they said was submitted by Cardinal Pell shortly before he died

Looking at some of the key appointments that are awaiting Pope Francis and other members of the Catholic Church over the next several months

A decade after his resignation, deep divisions are apparent in the German church between traditionalists in Benedict’s mold and relative liberals.

Pope Benedict XVI, who died on Dec 31, leaves his homeland with a complicated legacy: pride in a German pontiff but a church deeply divided over the need for reforms in the wake of a sexual abuse scandal in which his own actions of decades ago were faulted.&#x...

<div class="at-above-post addthis_tool" data-url="http://www.metro.us/benedict-leaves-german-homeland-with-complicated-legacy/"></div>BERLIN (AP) — Pope Benedict XVI leaves his homeland with a complicated legacy: pride in a German pontiff but a church deeply divided over the need for reforms in the wake of a sexual abuse scandal in which his own actions of decades ago were faulted. Benedict has long drawn mixed reviews in Germany, a […]<!-- AddThis Adv...

BERLIN (AP) — Pope Benedict XVI leaves his homeland with a complicated legacy: pride in a German pontiff but a church deeply divided over the need for reforms in the wake of a sexual abuse scandal in which his own actions of decades ago were faulted.