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Attack in Germany: Catholic, Jewish leaders weigh in on deadly terror before key elections

August 27, 2024 Catholic News Agency 1

A woman kneels at a makeshift memorial of flowers and candles for the victims on Aug. 24, 2024, close to the scene where at least three people were killed and several injured when a man attacked them with a knife on Aug. 23, 2024, in Solingen, w… […]

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50,000 altar servers headed to Rome for meeting this month

July 5, 2024 Catholic News Agency 2

Pope Francis greets altar servers from France. / Credit: Vatican Media

ACI Prensa Staff, Jul 5, 2024 / 07:00 am (CNA).
The city of Rome will host an international pilgrimage of the association of altar servers “Coetus Internationalis Ministrant… […]

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400,000 Germans quit Catholic Church as talks between Vatican, Synodal Way continue

July 1, 2024 Catholic News Agency 17

The Catholic Cathedral of Limburg in Hesse, Germany. / Credit: Mylius via Wikimedia (GFDL 1.2)

CNA Newsroom, Jul 1, 2024 / 09:45 am (CNA).
Just one day after the news that hundreds of thousands of Catholics left the Church in Germany in 2023, t… […]

The Dispatch

Germany now a ‘mission country,’ Bishop Bätzing says amid declining Catholic numbers

May 14, 2024 Catholic News Agency 20

Bishop Georg Bätzing addresses journalists on Sept. 28, 2023. / Credit: Martin Rothweiler/EWTN Germany

CNA Newsroom, May 14, 2024 / 09:32 am (CNA).
The German Bishops’ Conference president has called Germany — a nation whose very history is ent… […]

The Dispatch

Four German bishops resist push to install permanent ‘Synodal Council’

April 26, 2024 Catholic News Agency 17

Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki of Cologne attends a German Synodal Way assembly on March 9, 2023. / Credit: Synodaler Weg/Maximilian von Lachner

CNA Newsroom, Apr 26, 2024 / 13:57 pm (CNA).
Four German bishops on Wednesday distanced themselves fr… […]

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Synodal standoff: German bishops and Vatican commit to resolution roadmap

March 23, 2024 Catholic News Agency 4

View of the Vatican from the Tiber / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/CNA

CNA Newsroom, Mar 23, 2024 / 05:30 am (CNA).
The Vatican and the German bishops have announced they will work together to resolve the controversial German Synodal Way. In a joi… […]

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Pro-abortion activists aggressively harass peaceful pro-life prayer vigil in Germany

March 6, 2024 Catholic News Agency 2

The small group of Germans peacefully praying for an end to abortion were accosted by some 20 assailants wearing hoodies who shouted in their faces, harassing them, mocking them, insulting them, provoking them and intimidating them with aggressi… […]

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BREAKING: German bishops halt move toward establishing a Synodal Council, at Vatican’s request

February 17, 2024 Catholic News Agency 4

The cross of the German “Synodal Way” / Maximilian von Lachner / Synodaler Weg

National Catholic Register, Feb 17, 2024 / 18:35 pm (CNA).
In a significant setback for the Synodal Way project in Germany, the German bishops will not be voting on … […]

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Vatican draws line on women’s ordination and homosexuality in new letter to German bishops

November 24, 2023 Catholic News Agency 35

Cardinal Pietro Parolin. / Claude Truong-Ngoc via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

CNA Newsroom, Nov 24, 2023 / 11:00 am (CNA).
The Vatican has informed German bishops in writing that the ordination of women and changes in the Church’s teachin… […]

The Dispatch

Full Text: Pope Francis’ letter expressing concern about German Synodal Way

November 21, 2023 Catholic News Agency 13

Pope Francis in St. Peter’s Basilica on Oct. 29, 2023. / Daniel Ibanez/CNA

Vatican City, Nov 21, 2023 / 08:25 am (CNA).
Pope Francis has written a letter to four German Catholic laywomen expressing his “concerns” about the direction of the Cath… […]

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