A petition launched by a Munich priest to Pope Leo XIV calling for the dismissal of Cologne, Germany, archbishop Cardinal ...

“The bishops’ and the Catholic church’s agenda in the past seven to ten years has been clearly left.” To discourage her support of the AfD, she said Germany’s other parties would have to ...

A record number of people left the Catholic Church in Germany last year, according to just released figures from the German Bishops’ Conference (DBK). In total, 522,821 people disaffiliated ...

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There were other influential Catholic circles in Germany more or less opposed to the entire concept of political Catholicism, to allowing a political party to represent Church interests. Others, again ...

BERLIN—Another 400,000 people left the Catholic Church in Germany last year, though the number was down from a record set in 2022 as church leaders struggle to put a long-running scandal over ...