Participants in the German Synodal Way have voted in favor of draft texts calling for same-sex blessings and changes to the Catechism on homosexuality, as well as women priests. Andreas Sturm, the ...

VATICAN CITY — 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 become harmfully ...

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 universal ...

The bishops' conference said their guidelines followed Pope Francis'  "pastoral approach" and reflected concluding ...

PARIS, May 6 (Reuters) - Germany's Roman Catholic Church, an influential voice for reforms prompted by Pope Francis, has decided lay Catholic employees who divorce and remarry or form gay civil unions ...

After months of controversy, progressive German bishops have failed to pass a document updating their teachings on sex, gender and masturbation. The document, "Living in Successful Relationships," was ...

Spanish Cardinal Antonio María Rouco Varela criticized the controversial Synodal Way of the German Catholic Church, noting that the devil will not defeat the resurrection of Christ. Rouco, who is the ...

Pope Francis greets Bishop Georg Batzing, president of the German bishops' conference, during an audience at the Vatican on June 24, 2021. Batzing said he assured the pope that German Catholics do not ...

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, a 44% ...

(Above, a rainbow flag at the altar in a queer mass celebrated this past spring in Munich by Cardinal Reinhard Marx, who now says homosexuality is not a sin.) A friend in the US sent me today this ...