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 ...

A defamatory sculpture known as the "Judensau" can be seen at the town church. A German man who has fought in court for years to have a 13th century anti-Semitic sculpture removed from the wall of a ...

BERLIN (AP) — A scandal centering on sexual abuse allegations against a long-deceased cardinal has created a “very difficult situation” for the troubled Catholic Church in Germany, a top German bishop ...

A court on Tuesday ordered a German diocese to pay $323,000 in compensation to a former altar boy who was repeatedly abused by a Catholic priest in the 1970s, a ruling that a victims' association said ...

In a recent interview with The Pillar, Frank Ronge, a veteran German Catholic bureaucrat who coordinates the German Synodal Path, described the Synodaler Weg’s rationale and work. Many of those deeply ...

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 ...

It's no secret that the German Catholic Church's reform project, known as the "Synodal Path," is a thorn in Pope Francis' side. He has criticized the process, which has brought forward ideas such as ...

The Vatican’s liturgy czar has intervened against the implementation of resolutions of the German Synodal Way that demand laypeople should be able to regularly baptize and preach the homily at Mass in ...