Religious brother Joshy George Pottackal, born in India, is to become the first auxiliary bishop of non-European heritage. The diversity of the global Catholic Church is reaching the German episcopate ...

Georg Baetzing, Bishop of Limburg and Chairman of the German Bishops' Conference, speaks during a press conference. Arne Dedert/dpa Despite opposition from the Vatican, German Bishop Georg Bätzing ...

More than 600,000 German Catholics and Protestants left the church in 2025, official figures revealed on Monday, as Germany's two main Christian churches continued to haemorrhage members. The ...

A German counselor’s firing after quitting the Catholic Church led EU judges to draw a clearer line: Faith can matter at work ...

In a recent interview with The Pillar, Frank Ronge, a veteran German Catholic bureaucrat who coordinates the German Synodal Path, described the Synodaler Weg’s rationale and work. Many of those deeply ...

Speaking at the opening of the “Katholikentag” in the central German town of Erfurt on Wednesday, President Frank-Walter Steinmeier decried the Church’s diminishing role and standing in German society ...

Cardinal Christoph Schönborn of Vienna warned of schism as German bishops want to keep to their reform course despite the latest letter from Rome, which halted the vote on the statutes of a Synodal ...

COLOGNE, Germany — Germany’s Catholic Church has sharply criticized a carnival float made for a big street parade in the western city of Cologne that linked Jesus with the church abuse scandal. The ...

A senior German priest has announced that he is no longer Catholic, citing his disappointment over a lack of “reforms” in the Church and admitting to having broken his promise of celibacy. Sturm, who ...

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