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Irme Stetter-Karp, president of the Central Committee of German Catholics. / zdk.de.Prague, Czech Republic, Feb 8, 2023 / 11:10 am (CNA).A leader of the controversial German Synodal Way said in a speech at Europe's synod meeting Wednesday that the exclusion of women from ordination drives women from the Church.Irme Stetter-Karp, the president of the lay Central Committee of German Catholics (ZdK), addressed delegates in the meeting in Prague on Feb. 8."The stubborn adherence to the dual anthropology and the confinement of women to the space outside of the ordained ministry tends to drive ...

The Diocese of Limburg has published a new brochure entitled, “Guidelines for competence in sex education in the pastoral care/areas of activity of the Church.” In these guidelines, Catholic views are abandoned and a new image of the human being and of sexuality is presented, which is oriented towards gender ideology.

Germany's bishops do not have the authority to establish a permanent decision-making body of bishops and laypeople that top Vatican officials said would supersede the authority of the country's bishops' conference, according to a letter from the officials published Jan. 23.

Cardinal Reinhard Marx and fellow bishops from Germany meeting with Pope Francis at the Vatican, Nov. 17, 2022 / Vatican MediaCNA Newsroom, Jan 25, 2023 / 15:41 pm (CNA).In an interview published Wednesday, Pope Francis decried the German Synodal Way as elitist, unhelpful, and running the risk of bringing ideological harm to Church processes."The German experience does not help," the pontiff told Associated Press when asked about the controversial process, explaining that dialogue should involve "all the people of God."The 86-year-old pontiff contrasted the German event, wh...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis has warned there’s a risk that a reform process in the German Catholic Church over calls for married priests and other possible liberalizing reforms might become harmfully “ideological.”