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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

COLOGNE, Germany (AP) — Germany’s Catholic Church has sharply criticized a ... Shrove Monday procession and carnival as a whole,” German news agency dpa reported. Cologne is a traditionally ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...