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German Catholic bishops’ leader: ‘Synodal Way’ and Rome synod have ‘common goal’

May 21, 2021 Catholic News Agency 2

Bishop Georg Bätzing, chairman of the German bishops’ conference. / Rudolf Gehrig/CNA Deutsch.

CNA Staff, May 21, 2021 / 12:00 pm (CNA).
A leading German Catholic bishop welcomed Friday the new multi-year format of the synod of synodality, sayin… […]

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Father Weinandy: ‘If the German Synodal Way is not heading for schism, it has fooled a lot of people’

May 10, 2021 Catholic News Agency 4

The flag of Germany. / Trine Juel via Flickr (CC BY 2.0).

CNA Staff, May 10, 2021 / 11:00 am (CNA).
A Catholic theologian has said it is “foolish” to deny that the German “Synodal Way” is seeking changes that would be schismatic. Fr. Thomas Wein… […]

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German Catholic group calls on bishops to unite with Rome

May 10, 2021 Catholic News Agency 0

The hand of the statue of St. Peter in St. Peter’s Square, pictured Feb. 28, 2013. / Mazur/catholicnews.org.uk.

CNA Staff, May 10, 2021 / 09:00 am (CNA).
A German Catholic group appealed Saturday to the country’s bishops to unite with Rome amid … […]

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German Catholic bishops’ leader: We are not ‘schismatics’

May 6, 2021 Catholic News Agency 6

Bishop Georg Bätzing of Limburg. / Bistum Limburg.

CNA Staff, May 6, 2021 / 13:50 pm (CNA).
The chairman of the German Catholic bishops’ conference has insisted that the country’s Catholics are not “schismatics” seeking to “detach ourselves as t… […]

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English Catholic bishop fears Germany’s ‘Synodal Way’ will lead to ‘de facto schism’

March 17, 2021 CNA Daily News 6

CNA Staff, Mar 17, 2021 / 05:00 am (CNA).- An English Catholic bishop said on Tuesday that he feared that the German Church’s “Synodal Way” would lead to a “de facto schism.”

Bishop Philip Egan of Portsmouth told CNA on M… […]

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Catholic bishop: ‘Synodal Way’ procedures give impression of ‘authoritarian despotism’

February 4, 2021 Catholic News Agency 0

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 […]

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