Those concerned with Germany’s Synodal Way and — by extension — the Synod on Synodality, may have hoped for a stronger intervention from the Holy See, one that repudiated what’s going on ...

CNA Newsroom, Jul 20, 2023 / 09:20 am. On Thursday, July 20, the Catholic Church marks the 90th anniversary of a deal made in Rome on a hot summer day in 1933 between Hitler’s Germany and the ...

Germany’s Synodal Way is a multi-year gathering of bishops and laypeople launched in 2019 amid fallout from the country’s massive clerical abuse crisis with the intention of reevaluating ...

And if Holy Orders is one sacrament with three grades (as the Catechism of the Catholic Church 1593 states), the Church’s inability to ordain women to the priesthood must extend to the other two ...

Institutional Catholicism in Germany has for the past three years been treading der Synodale Weg, the “Synodal Way”: a self-constituted, radical form of church legislative assembly that, while ...

A gay couple lights votive candles at a Catholic church in Essen, Germany, Oct. 30, 2021. A majority of German bishops voted March 10 in favor of same-sex blessings.

Institutional Catholicism in Germany has for the past three years been treading der Synodale Weg, the “Synodal Way”: a self-constituted, radical form of church legislative assembly that, while ...

For the past 40 years, refugees in Germany have been able to claim temporary sanctuary in Christian churches, a practice known as church asylum. The impetus for this was an act of desperation.