CNA Staff, Feb 23, 2021 / 12:00 pm (CNA).- The theologian Beate Gilles was elected general secretary of the German bishops’ conference on Monday, becoming the first woman to hold the post.
She succeeds Fr. Hans Langendörfer, S.J., who… […]
CNA Staff, Feb 17, 2021 / 03:00 am (CNA).- Pro-life activists are challenging a German municipality’s decision to ban them from praying in front of a pre-abortion advisory center.
Members of the 40 Days for Life in Pforzheim, southwest Germany, … […]
CNA Staff, Feb 10, 2021 / 09:00 am (CNA).- A Vatican cardinal has responded to a German theologian who criticized him for opposing a proposal for a “Eucharistic meal fellowship” between Catholics and Protestants.
Cardinal Kurt Koch, presid… […]
CNA Staff, Feb 4, 2021 / 03:00 pm (CNA).- A German Catholic bishop said on Wednesday that he detected an “authoritarian despotism” in the procedures of the country’s controversial “Synodal Way.” In an open letter […]
CNA Staff, Feb 4, 2021 / 12:00 pm (CNA).- A German cardinal facing calls to resign confirmed on Thursday that he would release an eagerly awaited report on abuse cases in his archdiocese next month.
Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki told the Köl… […]
In a recent interview posted by CWR, Cardinal Gerhard Müller remarked: Since the eighteenth century, along with absolutism, we have even in Catholic France, Austria and Bavaria the unholy tradition of the official state church […]
CNA Staff, Jan 28, 2021 / 06:30 am (CNA).- A Vatican cardinal has expressed “astonishment” at a statement by a group of Protestant and Catholic theologians in Germany.
Cardinal Kurt Koch, president of the Pontifical Council for Promo… […]
CNA Staff, Jan 8, 2021 / 02:30 am (CNA).- German media have criticized the Archdiocese of Cologne for offering to provide a “background briefing” to journalists about an unpublished report into clerical sex abuse on condition that they … […]
CNA Staff, Dec 11, 2020 / 09:00 am (CNA).- A German cardinal announced Friday that he would ask Pope Francis to review his handling of a clerical abuse case.
Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki of Cologne said Dec. 11 that he would seek the pope’s… […]
Rome Newsroom, Nov 27, 2020 / 10:20 am (CNA).- An art restorer in Germany has offered to restore a decapitated statue of the Virgin Mary in Regensburg free of charge.
Known as the “doll doctor” for his work restoring dolls, Marcel Off… […]
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