German Bishops

Vatican hosts youth conference with pro-abortion UN activists

11/15/2019 at 9:38 PM By Mary Anne Hackett
By Diane Montagna  ROME, November 8, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) — With so much attention focused in recent weeks on the violation of the first commandment, further attacks on the fifth and sixth commandments have gone unnoticed in Vatican City. In the middle of the Amazon Synod, a smaller... read more

10 German Dioceses Push for Major Changes During Upcoming ‘Synodal Path’

11/12/2019 at 10:41 AM By Mary Anne Hackett
According to a joint open letter released in Germany, vicars general say ‘fundamental reform’ is ‘essential’ and ask that accusations that participants are ‘lacking orthodoxy’ be avoided during the two-year synodal process. Edward Pentin Blog, November 6, 2019 Now that the... read more

There’s a Pony in Here Somewhere: A Post-Synodal Reflection

11/01/2019 at 9:15 AM By Kevin Edward White
By George Weigel, First Things, October 28, 2019 According to his longtime consigliere, Edwin Meese, President Ronald Reagan must have told the “pony joke” at least a thousand times. The story involves the super-optimistic child whose parents take him to a psychiatrist, along with his... read more
Cardinal Schönborn (Vienna)

Cardinal Schönborn: I Haven’t Read About Criticisms of the Synod

10/22/2019 at 12:10 PM By Kevin Edward White
The Archbishop of Vienna, a member of the drafting committee on the final document, also said he hadn’t reviewed evidence that the pro-abortion Ford Foundation is funding key synod groups. By Edward Pentin, National Catholic Register, October 21, 2019 Despite being one of the four members of... read more

Looking for Schism in All the Wrong Places

09/29/2019 at 11:13 AM By Mary Anne Hackett
BY MICHAEL WARREN DAVIS, SEPTEMBER 19, 2019 Pope Francis boldly declared last week that he’s unafraid of “pseudo-schismatics”: a clique of (mostly American) rigorist prelates and journalists whom Francis regards as a kind of loyal opposition to his papacy. But why should he have been... read more
Bishop Rudolf Voderholzer of Regensburg. Credit: Estefania Aguirre/CNA

German bishops vote to adopt statutes for Synodal Assembly

09/26/2019 at 11:19 AM By Kevin Edward White
By Ed Condon, Catholc News Agency, September 25, 2019 The bishops of Germany have voted to adopt a set of statutes for their long-planned “Synodal Assembly.” The decision was taken in a vote on Wednesday, Sept. 25, the final day of the plenary session of the German bishops’... read more

Theologian withdraws from German synodal path

09/23/2019 at 11:45 AM By Kevin Edward White
Vatican City, Sep 21, 2019 / 03:08 pm (CNA).- A member of the International Theological Commission has announced that she is no longer available to participate in the “binding synodal path” undertaken by the bishops’ conference of Germany. Marianne Schlosser, a member of the... read more

Analysis: Cardinal Marx’s next step on the German synodal path

09/18/2019 at 6:17 PM By Kevin Edward White
By Ed Condon, Catholic News Agency, September 18, 2019 This week, Cardinal Reinhard Marx, president of the German bishops’ conference, travels to Rome. There he will meet with Cardinal Marc Ouellet, head of the Vatican’s Congregation for Bishops, to clear up some “misunderstandings”... read more

Marx says German ‘synod’ will proceed despite Vatican objections

09/17/2019 at 3:58 PM By Mary Anne Hackett
By Ed Condon, CNA Munich, Germany, Sep 16, 2019 / 11:45 am (CNA).- The head of the German bishops’ conference told Vatican officials last week that addressing controversial theological topics during the German bishops’ proposed “binding synodal path” will be a service to the universal... read more

Vatican officials offer guidance for German Church gathering

09/13/2019 at 10:06 AM By Mary Anne Hackett
Cindy Wooden, Sep 13, 2019, CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE Vatican officials offer guidance for German Church gathering Cardinal Reinhard Marx of Munich and Freising, president of the German bishops’ conference, speaks to the press at the beginning of the German bishops’ fall assembly in Fulda,... read more

Correcting the Synods of surprises

07/29/2019 at 5:36 PM By Kevin Edward White
By Joshua Hren, Crisis, July 29, 2019 During the heady days of Vatican II, while spirited disputes over the schema raged on, Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre proposed that the governing structure of the episcopal conferences undergirding the Council was “a new kind of collectivism invading the... read more

Crying out for ‘the homily of the future’

07/29/2019 at 4:33 PM By Kevin Edward White

Cardinal Gerhard Muller: ‘True Reform of the Church Is About Her Renewal in Christ’

07/10/2019 at 4:53 PM By Mary Anne Hackett

Vatican walks tightrope on China, comes on strong with Germany and confession

07/03/2019 at 3:43 PM By Kevin Edward White
Bishop Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst.

‘Bling Bishop’ a classic case of Vatican’s ‘Ironic Employment Division’

06/28/2019 at 12:49 PM By Kevin Edward White

Pre-Amazonian Synod ‘Study Meeting’ Held in Rome

06/26/2019 at 12:49 PM By Mary Anne Hackett

Cardinal Burke: Relaxing priestly celibacy for Amazon region would affect universal Church

06/23/2019 at 6:52 PM By Kevin Edward White

The Amazon Synod’s Long Game Is More Radical Than You Think

06/20/2019 at 2:41 PM By Kevin Edward White

Canon law expert predicts married priests in the West after Amazon Synod

06/03/2019 at 11:03 AM By Mary Anne Hackett

German bishop supports ‘Church strike’ for women’s ordination

05/16/2019 at 9:31 AM By Kevin Edward White