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Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki of Cologne. / Archdiocese of Cologne/Reiner Diart. Cologne, Germany, May 3, 2022 / 07:15 am (CNA). The Vatican has ruled that the German Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki did not breach canon law when awarding contracts ...
Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki. Credit: Jochen Rolfes/Archdiocese of Cologne. / nullCologne, Germany, Mar 2, 2022 / 02:34 am (CNA).Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki has submitted his resignation for a second time to Pope Francis as leader of Germany's Catholic archdiocese of Cologne.The archdiocese announced the cardinal's move on March 2, Ash Wednesday, the day that he returned to lead the archdiocese after a period of "prayer and reflection," reported CNA Deutsch, CNA's German-language news partner.The Cologne archdiocese, which is Germany's largest and reportedly also its richest diocese...
Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki. Credit: Jochen Rolfes/Archdiocese of Cologne. / null Cologne, Germany, Mar 2, 2022 / 02:34 am (CNA). Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki has submitted his resignation for a second time to Pope Francis as leader of Germany...
Archbishop Stefan Heße of Hamburg. / Raimond Spekking (CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons). Hamburg, Germany, Sep 15, 2021 / 08:10 am (CNA). Pope Francis has declined the resignation of a German archbishop, the apostolic nunciature in Berlin ann...
Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki. Credit: Jochen Rolfes/Archdiocese of Cologne. CNA Staff, Feb 4, 2021 / 12:00 pm (CNA).- A German cardinal facing calls to resign confirmed on Thursday that he would release an eagerly awaited report on abuse cases in his archdiocese next month. Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki told the Kölnische Rundschau newspaper on Feb. 4 that he stood by his promise to release the Gercke Report on clerical abuse on March 18. He also said that an independent commission would be granted access to another report, by the Munich law firm Westphal Spilker Wastl, which the Archdiocese ...