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VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Top Vatican officials expressed concern that, with the Synodal Path, the German bishops were giving up their role as shepherds and allowing participants to adopt positions in contrast to the faith of the universal church, particularly regarding sexuality and womens ordination. The bishops met Nov. 18 with the heads of Vatican dicasteries to discuss the Synodal Path, which the German bishops conference and the Central Committee of German Catholics launched in 2019 in resp

Top Vatican cardinals tried to put the brakes on the German Catholic Church’s controversial reform process Friday, fearing proposals concerning gays, women and sexual morals will split the church and insisting they would be better debated later. The Vatican and the German bishops conference issued a joint statement after a week of meetings that culminated…

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — The president of the German Bishops’ Conference, Bishop Georg Bätzing, said he will not deny blessings for same-sex couples.

Cardinal Gerhard Müller, the former prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, spoke about the limits of papal infallibility and the threat posed by the German Synodal Path, in an interview with the German service Kath.

 

ROME (AP) -- Top Vatican cardinals tried to put the brakes on the German Catholic Church's controversial reform process Friday, fearing proposals

After meeting with Pope Francis and other Vatican official, the president of the bishops’ conference said claim that German church is moving toward schism are ‘meant to intimidate us.’

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Germany’s Catholic bishops insisted Saturday that their reform process won’t lead to a schism and vowed to continue it after tense meetings with Vatican officials who want a moratorium on proposals to ordain women, bless same-sex unions and rethink church teaching on sexuality.

Get latest articles and stories on World at LatestLY. Germanys Catholic bishops insisted on Saturday that their reform process wont lead to a schism and vowed to continue it after tense meetings with Vatican officials who want a moratorium on proposals to ordain women, bless same-sex unions and rethink church teaching on sexuality. World News | German Bishops Assure Vatican but Vow to Proceed with Reform.

The German bishops' meeting with officials of the Roman Curia was not a "showdown," but it did make clear the Vatican's strong concerns about Germany's Synodal Path, especially regarding its support for official ministries for women and for a change in church teaching about homosexuality, said the president of the bishops' conference. Coming at the end of the bishops' weeklong "ad limina" visits to Rome, the meeting Nov. 18 with the heads of Vatican o...