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Cardinal Marx celebrates Mass marking ‘20 years of queer worship and pastoral care’

March 14, 2022 Catholic News Agency 27

Cardinal Reinhard Marx marks ‘20 years of queer worship and pastoral care’ at St. Paul parish church, Munich, southern Germany, March 13, 2022. / erzbistummuenchen/Facebook.

Munich, Germany, Mar 14, 2022 / 05:00 am (CNA).
Cardinal Reinhard Marx… […]

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Nordic Catholic bishops: German ‘Synodal Way’ fills us with worry

March 10, 2022 Catholic News Agency 8

Cardinal Anders Arborelius of Stockholm at a consistory in St. Peter’s Basilica on June 28, 2017. / Daniel Ibáñez/CNA.

Tromso, Norway, Mar 10, 2022 / 04:00 am (CNA).
Nordic Catholic bishops issued an open letter on Wednesday expressing alarm at… […]

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German Catholic bishops’ leader calls for change to Catechism on sexuality

March 4, 2022 Catholic News Agency 40

Bishop Georg Bätzing of Limburg. / Bistum Limburg.

Munich, Germany, Mar 4, 2022 / 11:30 am (CNA).
The chairman of the German Catholic bishops’ conference has called for changes to Church teaching on sex outside of marriage and homosexuality. In… […]

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German Cardinal Woelki submits resignation to Pope Francis for 2nd time

March 2, 2022 Catholic News Agency 1

Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki. Credit: Jochen Rolfes/Archdiocese of Cologne. / null

Cologne, Germany, Mar 2, 2022 / 02:34 am (CNA).
Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki has submitted his resignation for a second time to Pope Francis as leader of Germany… […]

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Polish Catholic bishops’ leader expresses ‘fraternal concern’ over German ‘Synodal Way’

February 22, 2022 Catholic News Agency 3

Archbishop Stanisław Gądecki and Bishop Georg Bätzing. / Episkopat.pl/Bistum Limburg.

Warsaw, Poland, Feb 22, 2022 / 02:00 am (CNA).
The president of Poland’s Catholic bishops’ conference expressed “fraternal concern” about the direction of the… […]

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Full text: EWTN’s exclusive interview with Archbishop Gänswein

February 14, 2022 Catholic News Agency 2

Archbishop Georg Gänswein, personal secretary of Pope emeritus Benedict XVI, speaks to EWTN Rome Bureau Chief Andreas Thonhauser. / Daniel Ibáñez/CNA.

Vatican City, Feb 14, 2022 / 16:30 pm (CNA).
Editor’s note: In a Feb. 11 interview in Rome, A… […]

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Archbishop Gänswein tells inside story of Benedict XVI’s response to the Munich abuse report

February 14, 2022 Catholic News Agency 3

Archbishop Georg Gänswein, personal secretary of Pope emeritus Benedict XVI. / Daniel Ibáñez/CNA.

Vatican City, Feb 14, 2022 / 05:40 am (CNA).
Archbishop Georg Gänswein has shared the inside story of how Pope emeritus Benedict XVI responded to … […]

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Can Cardinal Hollerich help to reconcile the German ‘Synodal Way’ with the global synodal process?

February 10, 2022 Catholic News Agency 7

Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich, Archbishop of Luxembourg, at the Vatican, Oct. 5, 2019. / null

Rome Newsroom, Feb 10, 2022 / 10:30 am (CNA).
The German “Synodal Way” is moving forward boldly following a decisive meeting in Frankfurt at the star… […]

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Benedict XVI asks abuse survivors for forgiveness as advisers defend handling of Munich cases

February 8, 2022 Catholic News Agency 1

Pope emeritus Benedict XVI. / Paul Badde/CNA.

Vatican City, Feb 8, 2022 / 05:00 am (CNA).
Pope emeritus Benedict XVI personally requested forgiveness from abuse survivors on Tuesday in a letter responding to a report that faulted his handling o… […]

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German ‘Synodal Way’ meeting ends with call for same-sex blessings, change to Catechism on homosexuality

February 7, 2022 Catholic News Agency 19

The third Synodal Assembly of the ‘Synodal Way’ in Frankfurt, Germany, on Feb. 4, 2022. / Max von Lachner/Synodal Way.

Frankfurt, Germany, Feb 7, 2022 / 12:00 pm (CNA).
A plenary meeting of the German Catholic Church’s “Synodal Way” ended on Sa… […]

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