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Franciscans in Germany elect openly gay priest as new superior

June 14, 2022 Catholic News Agency 24

Franciscan friars line the Via Dolorosa in the Old City of Jerusalem. / Shutterstock

Denver Newsroom, Jun 14, 2022 / 19:15 pm (CNA).
The 300-member Franciscan province of Saint Elisabeth in Germany has elected as its new superior Father Markus … […]

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Cost of Germany’s ‘Synodal Way’ remains a mystery

May 9, 2022 Catholic News Agency 1

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

Bonn, Germany, May 9, 2022 / 12:10 pm (CNA).
The German “Synodal Way” has created worldwide controversy. But how much it is c… […]

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‘Is a new Reformation dawning in Germany?’ Initiative writes to bishops around the world

February 3, 2022 Catholic News Agency 8

The ‘Synodal Way’ began Dec. 1, 2019. / Rudolf Gehrig/CNA Deutsch.

Munich, Germany, Feb 3, 2022 / 15:25 pm (CNA).
As the opening assembly of the Synodal Way is taking place in Germany, the “New Beginning” initiative has warned of a schism arisi… […]

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German “synodal way” votes for blessing homosexual unions; defends contraception, masturbation

October 4, 2021 Matthew Cullinan Hoffman 77

The “Synodal Way,” a conference consisting of German bishops, priests, religious, and laity, on Friday approved a draft document that appears to undermine Catholic doctrine on fundamental points of sexual morality, offering a defense of […]

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More than 220,000 people left the Catholic Church in Germany in 2020

July 14, 2021 CNA Daily News 23

Bonn, Germany, Jul 14, 2021 / 07:00 am More than 220,000 people left Catholic Church in Germany in 2020, according to official figures released on Wednesday. The statistics issued by the German bishops’ conference on July 14 […]

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Pope Francis encourages us to continue on ‘Synodal Way,’ says German bishops’ leader after audience

June 24, 2021 Catholic News Agency 20

Bishop Georg Bätzing, chairman of the German bishops’ conference, meets with Pope Francis at the Vatican, June 24, 2021. / Vatican Media.

Vatican City, Jun 24, 2021 / 06:50 am (CNA).
Pope Francis encouraged the German Catholic Church to continue… […]

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Cardinal Kasper ‘very worried’ about German Church’s ‘Synodal Way’

June 10, 2021 Catholic News Agency 16

Cardinal Walter Kasper. / CNA/Bohumil Petrik.

Passau, Germany, Jun 10, 2021 / 03:35 am (CNA).
An influential theologian considered to be close to Pope Francis has said that he is “very worried” about the German Catholic Church’s controversial “S… […]

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Archbishop Aquila: My letter on ‘Synodal Way’ is a call to conversion, not division

May 28, 2021 CNA Daily News 2

Archbishop Samuel Aquila of Denver expounded on his recent open letter on the German bishops’ “Synodal Way,” in an interview with CNA Deutsch on Friday. The German bishops’ “Synodal Path” began in 2019 and is […]

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Bosnian cardinal: Synodal Way’s ‘exotic ideas’ alien to a Church that survived communism

May 27, 2021 Catholic News Agency 1

Cardinal Vinko Puljić in Marija Bistrica, Croatia, in 2012. / Ktabkbih.net via Wikimedia.

Rome Newsroom, May 27, 2021 / 13:00 pm (CNA).
A Bosnian cardinal has said that the “exotic ideas” of Germany’s “Synodal Way” are alien to a Church that sur… […]

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Archbishop Cordileone supports Archbishop Aquila’s call for repentance for German synodal path

May 27, 2021 CNA Daily News 0

Washington D.C., May 27, 2021 / 08:59 am The Archbishop of San Francisco has publicly supported Archbishop Aquila’s response to the German bishops’ “synodal path.” In his open letter dated May 13, Archbishop Samuel Aquila […]

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