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The Church in Belgium published the “Synthesis of the synodal process in the Church in Belgium,” on July 6, 2022, bringing together the elements that appeared in the various groups during the meetings organized in preparation for the World Synod on synodality.

The number of people resigning from membership in the Catholic and Protestant churches has hit a new record low

BONN, Germany (CNS) -- For the first time in the history of Germany, less than half the German population registered as members of one of the two large churches: Catholic and Protestant. New figures on church membership resignations have come as a shock to many, reported the German Catholic news agency KNA. The figures for 2021 show the profound crisis in which we find ourselves as the Catholic Church in Germany. There is no way to sugarcoat it, said Bishop Georg Bätzing, president of the G

“The figures for 2021 show the profound crisis in which we find ourselves as the Catholic Church in Germany," said Bishop Georg Bätzing.

If “the Church” manifests the will of the people, then the path the German Church has chosen in the past decade leads right out the door.

While the German bishops advanced their “Synodal Path” as a means of renewing the Catholic Church, official statistics showed that a record 359,338 German Catholics formally removed themselves from parish registers last year.

Cardinal Walter Kasper, president emeritus of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, at the Vatican in April 2015. / Bohumil Petrik/CNA. Berlin, Germany, Jun 22, 2022 / 14:40 pm (CNA). A theologian considered close to Pope Franci...

Cardinal Walter Kasper has denounced the German episcopal conference’s commitment to radical changes advanced by their “Synodal Path,” saying that the German bishops must recognize that the Church cannot be “remolded and reshaped to suit the situation.

The shift of power away from the hierarchy of bishops "will break the neck of the church," the cardinal said.

Pope Francis has launched a new assault on “old-fashioned outlooks” and “restorationist groups” in his latest published interview.