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The church hierarchy in Germany and the country’s influential lay Catholic group launched the reforms after a 2018 report found that thousands of abuse crimes were systematically covered up by German church leaders.

<p>The "ad limina" visits of the bishops of Germany were unusual in several respects and were dominated by discussion of the German church's Synodal Path.</p> <p>The pilgrimage to Rome Nov. 14-18 brought 63 German bishops to the Vatican meetings; usually members of such a large bishops' conference would have come to Rome in two or three groups, particularly because Pope Francis likes to spend a couple hours in the library of the Apostolic Palace listening to...

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.

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The German bishops meeting with officials of the Roman Curia was not a showdown, but it did make clear the Vaticans strong concerns about Germanys 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 offices was a serious

ROME (AP) — 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.

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.

Cardinal Reinhard Marx and fellow bishops from Germany meeting with Pope Francis at the Vatican, Nov. 17, 2022 / Vatican MediaCNA Newsroom, Nov 17, 2022 / 07:52 am (CNA).Pope Francis received the German bishops at the Vatican on Thursday.The audience with Pope Francis lasted about two hours, the German Bishops Conference said in a statement published after the encounter, describing the meeting as an "open round of talks" in which "the bishops were able to raise their questions and...

Dissident Catholic laity in Germany expose schismatic radicalism of their bishops on the 'Synodal Path'

The Archdiocese of Bamberg, Germany, has been caught in a quandary over the appropriate role for lay Catholics in the choice of a new bishop.

The visit of the German bishops to Rome in November 2022 began with a Holy Mass in the grottoes of St. Peter's Basilica. / German Bishops' Conference/Matthias KoppCNA Newsroom, Nov 14, 2022 / 10:30 am (CNA).Amid ongoing concerns over the German Synodal Way, the president of the German Bishops Conference on Monday at the Vatican said unity and renewal in the Catholic Church was "truly not an easy task."Celebrating Mass at St. Peters Basilica on Nov. 14, Bishop Georg Bätzing o...