Court postpones compensation lawsuit against Ratzinger/Benedict XVI
The Traunstein Regional Court in Bavaria has postponed a hearing in a compensation lawsuit brought against the late Pope Benedict XVI and other Church officials.
The Traunstein Regional Court in Bavaria has postponed a hearing in a compensation lawsuit brought against the late Pope Benedict XVI and other Church officials.
Bishop Heiner Wilmer of Hildesheim has urged Catholics to be patient in the wake of the conclusion of the Synodal Path reform consultations in the Catholic Church in Germany.
Following the completion of the Synodal Path reform consultations, two German dioceses will adopt different approaches to implementing the resolution on providing blessing ceremonies for same-sex couples or remarried divorcees.
Following the conclusion of the Synodal Path at the weekend, the eastern German theology professor Julia Knop has sharply criticised the outcome of the Catholic reform project in Germany and the behaviour of the bishops.
The last plenary assembly of the Synodal Path, the project for reforms within the Catholic Church in Germany, ended on Saturday with debates, compromises and decisions on Church reforms.
A paper was adopted by the Synodal Assembly in Frankfurt on Friday morning, with a majority of about 90 percent committed to to strengthening the role of women in Catholic worship services
Munich Cardinal Reinhard Marx has called for a more positive view of sexuality and a reform of Catholic doctrine relating to it.
More than 300 people from the twenty-three parishes of the diocese of Achonry gathered on February 17th in the Cathedral of The Annunciation and St Nathy, Ballaghaderreen. The occasion for this gathering was a commissioning, by Bishop Paul Dempsey, of parish pastoral councils from around the diocese.
The president of the German Bishops’ Conference, Bishop Georg Baetzing, has called for talks as soon as possible with the Church leadership in the Vatican about the dispute over the German Synodal Path reform process.
‘The synodal process has provided a forum that was long owed to those hurt by the Church as an institution. They deserve and need the opportunity to register the wrongdoing they experienced as a necessary first step in the healing process,’ writes Professor Eamonn Conway.