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CNA Staff, Jan 28, 2021 / 06:30 am (CNA).- A Vatican cardinal has expressed “astonishment” at a statement by a group of Protestant and Catholic theologians in Germany.  Cardinal Kurt Koch, president of the Pontifical Council for Promo...

Cardinal Walter Kasper. / CNA/Bohumil Petrik. Passau, Germany, Jun 10, 2021 / 03:35 am (CNA). An influential theologian considered to be close to Pope Francis has said that he is “very worried” about the German Catholic Church’s controversial “S...

London, England, Jul 22, 2019 / 06:01 pm (CNA).- The High Court has agreed to hear in September a bid from the parents of Tafida Raqeeb to take her to Italy for treatment. The five-year-old girl has been comatose since February, and UK doctors want to remove her life-sustaining treatment. The UK doctors have barred Raqeeb’s parents from taking her abroad for treatment. Two doctors from the Gaslini Children’s Hospital in Genoa examined Raqeeb via video link earlier this month, and they agreed to care for her in Italy. They said they did not believe her to be brain dead. Bishop John Sherrin...

CNA Staff, May 21, 2021 / 05:45 am (CNA). An ecumenical event in Germany last weekend culminated with the Catholic and Protestant leaders of the initiative publicly receiving communion in each others’ churches. Bettina Limperg, the Lutheran co-president of the Ecumenical Church Congress, received Holy Communion in a Catholic church. Thomas Sternberg, fellow co-president and head of the influential lay Central Committee of German Catholics (ZdK), received communion during a service at a Protestant church. The Ecumenical Church Congress took place in Frankfurt and online amid a controversy ab...