He is one of around 120 priests in Germany who decided to publicly defy the Vatican's ban. Over the space of a week the priests conducted services in Catholic churches all over Germany with ...

A study commissioned by the Catholic Church in Germany says clerics abused thousands of children over a 70-year period More than 3,600 children in Germany were assaulted by Roman Catholic priests ...

The Catholic Church in Germany has been shaken by a barrage of allegations that members of the clergy have carried out wide-ranging abuse against minors for years. The pope said that it was up to ...

Church members who sought to uphold their personal and institutional traditions were indeed intimidated and often paid the price of their defiance of the regime. For example, nearly one third of the ...

There should be no discrimination." Fighting discrimination Less than two years ago, Germany's Catholic Church liberalized its employment law for the approximately 790,000 church employees and ...

“We feel tailwind for our proceedings in Germany through the results ... and fidelity to Jesus Christ and his Church. Cardinal Reinhard Marx and other Catholic voices are calling for calm ...

Attendance at Catholic churches increased substantially under the Nazis, especially during World War Two, showing that Hitler’s attempts to reduce the influence of religion in Germany were ...

Pointing to the recent Synod on Synodality in Rome, Bishop Georg Bätzing, chairman of the German Bishops’ Conference, expressed optimism about the latest developments in Germany. Members of the ...

In the waning months of World War II, deep in the heart of Nazi Germany, a Catholic priest prayed in a prison cell, awaiting trial and a likely death sentence. The charges against him were false ...