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Thomas Sternberg, president of the Central Committee of German Catholics, is pictured during the organization's plenary assembly in Bonn, April 23, 2021. (CNS photo/KNA/Harald Oppitz) BONN, Germany — Thomas Sternberg, 69, president of the Central Committee of German Catholics, announced April 23 he will not seek reelection to the post in November. Sternberg assumed the highest office of Germany's Catholic lay organization in 2015. The German Catholic news agency KNA reported the organization will be forced to find new leadership in the midst of some upheaval. The organization is...

Embattled German bishops pick woman theologian as top Catholic administrator Lay theologian Beate Gilles is the first woman to be elected as the general secretary of the German Catholic bishops' conference. The move comes as bishops face calls to fully own up to scandals. Beate Gilles is not only the first woman to take the top administrative post, but also the first lay person The German Catholic Bishops' Conference (DBK) elected a woman for the first time as the conference's top administrator on Tuesday, in a move aimed at modernizing the body. Theologian Beate Gilles was appointed as gene...

Belfast, Northern Ireland, Jul 27, 2017 / 03:02 am (CNA/EWTN News).- An Irish priest has decried a film festival’s plans to screen two horror films in an abandoned church next month. The Belfast Film Festival plans to show two horror movies – The Exorcist and The Omen – at Holy Rosary Church in Belfast, a landmark church that has been abandoned since 1980 and is no longer owned by the Catholic Church.   Local parish priest Fr. Patrick McCafferty told the Belfast Telegraph that the plan was a “cheap stunt” and disrespectful to what once had been a sacred place. “What is their moti...