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Synodal Path: was schism groundwork laid fifty years ago?

September 20, 2022

The recent assembly of the German Synodal Path may have finally put the German Church on the path toward schism, building on a legacy from the 1970s. The Synodal Path rounded off a recent three-day meeting by voting for a permanent council to oversee the local Church. This “decision-making body” will decide upon “pastoral planning,

Synodal Path hits the accelerator as European divide deepens

August 26, 2022

Synodal Path set to vote on all-important council, despite global evidence that liberalism will not save the German Church Next month, participants in the Synodal Path in Germany will vote on whether to create a permanent council to oversee the German Church, a move likely to concern the Vatican, which recently came out swinging against

Imminent schism? Boost for Synodal Path as German Catholics back abortion

August 10, 2022

The Vatican may have come out swinging against the German Synodal Path, claiming the movement – designed to give lay members a say in running the Church – lacks the authority to instruct bishops on doctrine or morality, and warned of the dangers of schism, but the Path may have just got a huge shot

German bishops are failing to defend the faith

January 27, 2022

Karl Gustel Wärnberg meets Cardinal Müller to hear his views on the Tridentine Mass, the Synodal Way and restoring unity in the Church

So is Cardinal Marx for or against the blessing of same-sex unions?

February 08, 2018

An attempt to clarify the cardinal's comments has only created more confusion

Money can’t save German Catholicism

August 10, 2017

The German Church is wealthy but in dramatic decline. Only a new 'Reformation' can save it

Churches denounce Germany’s billion-euro arms sales to Yemen and Saudi Arabia

December 15, 2016

Germany's Catholic bishops have frequently condemned their country's arms industry

The new push to end priestly celibacy

February 25, 2016

Those who want to overturn the ancient discipline are energetic, well organised and influential. But can they persuade Pope Francis to make such a radical change?