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ROME (AP) -- Top Vatican cardinals tried to put the brakes on the German Catholic Church's controversial reform process Friday, fearing proposals

After meeting with Pope Francis and other Vatican official, the president of the bishops’ conference said claim that German church is moving toward schism are ‘meant to intimidate us.’

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Germany’s Catholic bishops insisted Saturday that their reform process won’t lead to a schism and vowed to continue it after tense meetings with Vatican officials who want a moratorium on proposals to ordain women, bless same-sex unions and rethink church teaching on sexuality.

Get latest articles and stories on World at LatestLY. Germany's Catholic bishops insisted on Saturday that their reform process won't lead to a schism and vowed to continue it after tense meetings with Vatican officials who want a moratorium on proposals to ordain women, bless same-sex unions and rethink church teaching on sexuality. World News | German Bishops Assure Vatican but Vow to Proceed with Reform.

The German bishops' meeting with officials of the Roman Curia was not a "showdown," but it did make clear the Vatican's strong concerns about Germany's Synodal Path, especially regarding its support for official ministries for women and for a change in church teaching about homosexuality, said the president of the bishops' conference. Coming at the end of the bishops' weeklong "ad limina" visits to Rome, the meeting Nov. 18 with the heads of Vatican offices was "a serious test of synodality," Bishop Georg Bätzing told reporters the next d...