Tag: bishops
Catholic Church: Bishops for more gender justice
Status: 09/09/2022 7:38 p.m At the synodal assembly there was great concern that another text could fail because of the bishops. Now the relief: A policy paper was approved, according…
Synodal Assembly in Frankfurt: Bishops cause bitter disappointment
Status: 09/09/2022 01:42 a.m At the Synodal Assembly in Frankfurt, the Catholic Church actually wants to advance reforms. But of all things, a text on church sexual morality failed in…
Synodal Assembly in Frankfurt: Bishops cause bitter disappointment
Status: 08.09.2022 11:46 p.m At the Synodal Assembly in Frankfurt, the Catholic Church actually wants to advance reforms. But just a text on church sexual morality has now failed because…
Religion: Synodal path: bishops let basic text fail
Stress balls with a halo are the German Catholics’ response to the ban from Rome: despite harsh criticism from the Vatican, they are continuing their reform course. But there is…
Bishops advise on abuse reports – Bavaria
The Bavarian Catholic bishops meet this Wednesday and Thursday, 30./31. March, to their general assembly in Regensburg. The Munich Archdiocese announced on Tuesday that advice should be given on the…
Catholic Church: Bishops support arms shipments – Politics
The German Catholic bishops consider arms deliveries to Ukraine to be justified. Even if the churches have always been critical of the export of armaments and continue to do so,…
Catholic bishops: arms deliveries “basically legitimate”
As of: 03/10/2022 6:32 p.m The Russian war of aggression is forcing the Church to reconsider its peace ethics. The Catholic bishops stressed that supplying arms to Ukraine was “in…
Abuse report: Catholic bishops discuss their future – politics
The German Catholic bishops begin their spring plenary assembly on Monday. The assembly is the first meeting of the bishops after the publication of the Munich report on abuse. It…
German Bishops’ Conference: Also Bätzing for the end of compulsory celibacy
Status: 03.02.2022 3:14 p.m The chairman of the German Bishops’ Conference, Bätzing, has also spoken out in favor of allowing priests to marry. Cardinal Marx from Munich had previously advocated…
Victims fund raises 20 million euros from bishops and dioceses
The first financial reparations granted to victims of pedocrime in the Church will arrive. The Selam, the Fund for the relief and fight against abuse of minors has collected “20…