The AP Interview: Pope warns of elitist German synod process
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
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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
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.”
Vatican officials say the body of bishops and laity would supersede authority of the country's bishops' conference
The pope 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."
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- 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. In their message to Bishop Georg Bätzing, president of the German bishops' conference, the Vatican officials addressed questions surrounding the establishment of a 'Synodal Council' to advise the churc