An increasing number of practicing German Catholics don’t want to fund the local Church’s controversial trajectory in the wake of the Synodal Way; but the only way to not pay the ‘church tax’ is to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Irme Stetter-Karp, President of the Central Committee of German Catholics, sits on the podium at an event for the German Catholics ...

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis has warned there’s a risk that a reform process in the German Catholic Church over calls for married priests and other possible liberalizing reforms might become harmfully ...

COLOGNE, Germany (AP) — 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.

PARIS, May 6 (Reuters) - Germany's Roman Catholic Church, an influential voice for reforms prompted by Pope Francis, has decided lay Catholic employees who divorce and remarry or form gay civil unions ...

Cardinal Reinhard Marx, archbishop of Munich and Freising, has instructed priests and full-time pastoral staff to introduce the controversial handout 'Blessing Gives Strength to Love.' ...

A church is being turned into a bouldering centre: in Würzburg, a former place of worship will host sport, a café and ...

Bishop Georg Bätzing of Limburg, president of the German bishops' conference, expressed concern when speaking of the results. "The figures are alarming. They show that the church is in a wide-ranging ...

The Catholic Church in Saxony-Anhalt has launched a campaign ahead of September’s crucial elections in the eastern German ...

Germany’s Catholic bishops and lay representatives gathered on March 9 for the final meeting of a potentially groundbreaking reform assembly that has been marked by tensions between liberalizers and ...