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On German bishops, the mayor of NYC, and the lateness of the hour

March 27, 2023 Adam Lucas 6

It’s familiar news by now that the German “Synodal Way” has moved forward with the heterodox “reforms” of women’s ordination and gender ideology. Familiar, too, is Cardinal Robert W. McElroy’s plea for a similar “inclusion” […]

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Naaman, the Nazarenes, and the Germans

March 22, 2023 George Weigel 16

To vary Oscar Wilde, the Church’s liturgical life often imitates art by being strikingly appropriate to a particular moment. That was certainly true on Monday of the Third Week of Lent, 2023 — a day […]

Analysis

Disconcerting quotations from Bishop Heiner Wilmer

March 21, 2023 George Weigel 51

Shortly before Christmas 2022, it seemed likely that Dr. Heiner Wilmer, SCJ, bishop of Hildesheim and a prominent proponent of the German “Synodal Way,” would be named prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of […]

Analysis

The Catholic Church in Germany after the Synodal Way: Three Scenarios

February 23, 2023 Neuer Anfang 8

The environment and the presumable consequences of the fifth general assembly of the Synodal Way, to be held from March 9 to 11, 2023, will lead to an historic turning point for the Catholic Church […]

Features

An American perspective on the situation of the Church in Germany

February 9, 2023 Jayd Henricks 17

How does the Catholic Church in the United States evaluate the situation of the church in Germany? The answer to this question obviously depends on whom you ask, but it is fair to say that […]

Features

The Church in Germany is on the path into total insignificance

February 6, 2023 Birgit Kelle 43

The Catholic Church in Germany is not only facing its last synodal assembly in March 2023, but also its biggest decision on direction in many decades. Reconciling the driving forces there with the clear admonitions […]

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Turbulent scenes and votes for homosexuality, women’s ordination at German Synodal Way

September 12, 2022 Catholic News Agency 24

Bishop Georg Bätzing, Irme Stetter-Karp, Bischop Franz-Josef Bode at the “Synodal Way” meeting on Sept. 9 2022 in Frankfurt, Germany. / Synodaler Weg / Maximilian von Lachner

CNA Newsroom, Sep 12, 2022 / 10:00 am (CNA).
With votes supporting ch… […]

Features

Archbishop Aquila on evangelization, false gods, abortion, Germany’s “Synodal Path”

July 8, 2022 Jim Graves 7

Archbishop Samuel Aquila, 71, is celebrating his tenth anniversary as Archbishop of Denver, the archdiocese in which he was ordained in 1976. He was born in Burbank, California, served as a priest in Denver for 25 […]

The Dispatch

The recovery of fraternal correction among bishops

April 20, 2022 George Weigel 19

In the golden age of the Catholic episcopate — the days of great Church Fathers like Cyprian of Carthage and Augustine of Hippo in the early and mid-first millennium — bishops were not infrequently in […]

Analysis

Liquid Catholicism and the German Synodal Path

February 16, 2022 George Weigel 40

Twenty years ago, during the Long Lent of 2002, I began using the term “Catholic Lite” to describe a project that detached the Church from its foundations in Scripture and Tradition: a Catholicism that could […]

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