The final assembly also clears the way for blessing ceremonies of same-sex couples in the Catholic Church in Germany Thomas Sternberg (right), president of the Central Committee of German Catholics, and Georg Bätzing, bishop of Limburg and president of the German Bishops’ Conference, open the Second Synodal Assembly of the Catholic Church in the Forum... Continue Reading →
Pope Francis decries German Synodal Way as ‘neither helpful nor serious’
While Pope Francis did not delve into details of the demands made in Germany, he plainly described the Synodal Way as perilous. “Here the danger is that something very, very ideological trickles in. When ideology gets involved in church processes, the Holy Spirit goes home, because ideology overcomes the Holy Spirit,” he said in the... Continue Reading →