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The Bishop of Limburg and President of the German Bishops' Conference, Georg Baetzing, arrives at the Vatican to attend the Ad-limina-visit of members of the German Bishops’ Conference 2022. Johannes Neudecker/dpaGerman bishops arrived in Rome on Monday to begin what are expected to be controversial...

Homosexuals have a right to church support and blessing, said Bishop Helmut Dieser, who is the spokesman on abuse issues for the German bishops’ conference.

Two issues raised most often in reports are the need to value womens contributions and the impact of clerical sex abuse

The Synod of Bishops publishes the text that will provide a “frame of reference” and form the basis for the work of the second stage of the synodal ...

Edward Pentin of the National Catholic Register contrasts the cases of two German prelates: Bishop Franz-Jozef Bode of Osnabrück, who has refused to resign despite clear evidence that he neglected abuse charges; and Cardinal Rainier Woelki of Cologne, who was charged with similar, but far less serious, failures.

Courtesy of Catholic News Agency and Catholic News Agency This is an independently submitted op-ed for our Quill section. Views and statements made in this article do not necessarily reflect the opinions of The Tower. When one thinks of “Synod on Synodality” what comes to mind? I’d wager a bet that, to most lay Catholics,

A number of leaders of the Catholic Church in Germany have been in Rome the past several days

Outrage in Germany over Holy See's response to church's attempts at changes to stop hemorrhaging of Catholic faithful

ROME (CNS) -- German Catholics involved in the Synodal Path are convinced the church must address the systemic causes of the clerical sexual abuse scandal and that will require change, said Charlotte Kreuter-Kirchhof, a member of the German Synodal Assembly. And while some of the assemblys proposed changes sound radical to some people -- with the harshest critics even warning that the Synodal Path could lead to schism -- Kreuter-Kirchhof said, We are members of the Roman Catholic Church, an

ROME (AP) — The German Catholic Church's reform process is again under fire from the Holy See, with a Vatican cardinal seemingly comparing its proposals for theological development to the thinking that sustained Germany's Nazi era.