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

For Doro Ludwig from Augsburg, that means even looking for job opportunities abroad — though the employee of a Catholic ministry independent from the German Church acknowledges that “so far th ...

U.S. bishops’ report to Vatican shows a Catholic Church split by politics The German synodal path has included discussions challenging the Catholic Church’s teachings on homosexuality ...

Pope Francis has expressed deep reservations about the direction of the Catholic Church in Germany, warning that concrete steps currently being taken “threaten” to undermine unity with the ...

Irme Stetter-Karp, President of the Central Committee of German Catholics ... of a conservative figure could pose challenges for the Church in Germany. Hendrik Schmidt/dpa 33,723 people played ...

Germany’s Catholic Church has merged and reorganized parishes ... In his OSV News interview, Kopp said the German bishops’ conference had no coordinated national policy for handling property ...

New figures on church membership resignations have come as a shock to many, reported the German Catholic news agency KNA. “The figures for 2021 show the profound crisis in which we find ...

Just over six months ago a devastating fire destroyed a historic church on Second Avenue in Albany. Now, Bishop Avery ...

Munich-Freising is not the first German diocese to offer this kind ... Less than two years ago, Germany's Catholic Church liberalized its employment law for the approximately 790,000 church ...

Top Vatican cardinals called for pause in the on the German Catholic Church’s controversial reform process during an unusual Vatican summit Friday, Nov. 18, 2022, fearing proposals concerning ...

as Pope Francis has already sternly warned the German church that adopting teachings contrary to the Catholic Church would put it in jeopardy of falling away from communion. The pope previously ...

Catholic Church in Germany spent €84.4 million ($95.7 million) on assistance for refugees last year, Hamburg Archbishop Stefan Hesse, the church's special commissioner for refugee issues ...