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German Catholic women push for new female Bishops' secretary after incumbent steps down

German Catholic women push for new female Bishops’ secretary after incumbent steps down

Spanish Catholic women present their 'revolt' for Sunday March 1

Spanish Catholic women “losing patience” with Church: “Without deep changes it will never be the Church of Jesus”

Bishop of Hildesheim (Germany), Heiner Wilmer

German bishop warns Church refusal to reform “a betrayal of the Gospel”

French laypeople say Pope's Amazon exhortation invitation to be 'inventive... without waiting for the hierarchy'

French laypeople say Amazon exhortation invitation to be “inventive… without waiting for the hierarchy”

The German 'synodal path'

Full steam ahead for German “synodal path” reforms despite Pope’s ‘no’ for moment to worldwide change

Participants at the Spanish National Lay Congress

“Lay” congress in Spain leaves bittersweet clerical taste: “Priests should give us oxygen to breathe”

Secretary of the Vatican Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life, Father Alexandre Awi Mello

Vatican secretary: “Laity are not to be seen as ‘auxiliaries of the hierarchy’, but as equally responsible for the faith”

Spanish National Congress of Laypeople

Francis pleads with laypeople to renew with “ingenuity and witness” a Europe “suffocated by death and despair”

Pope's apostolic exhortation on the Amazon Syond, 'Querida Amazonía'

Apostolic exhortation: lay groups, too, lament Francis’ “lack of courage for real reforms” on married priests, women

Pope's post-synodal apostolic exhortation 'Querida Amazonía'

Catholic aid org CIDSE welcomes Amazon exhortation: “A poetic call to undertake radical changes”

Austrian female theologian demands 'women's quota' in Church leadership positions

Austrian female theologian demands “women’s quota” in Church leadership positions

Pope Francis caresses the belly of a pregnant woman February 10 in an audience with the Knights of Colombus

Francis encourages Catholics to “make ourselves one with all, starting with the last, the excluded, the discarded”

Mara Klein, a non-binary German synodal path participant 'speaking truth to power'

“Grateful to speak for the people”: non-binary German “synodal path” participant speaking truth to power

Catholic women take charge in Germany, Switzerland, Italy and Austria (stock)

Austrian Catholic women join sisters in Germany, Switzerland and Italy in demanding equal access to ordained ministry

German Catholics blast Cardinal Müller's 'synodal path' Nazi comparison

“So far away from reality”: German Catholics blast Cardinal Müller for “synodal path”-Nazi comparison

Austrian Catholics draw up charter of fundamental rights in the Church

Primacy of conscience, equality, freedom of expression… Austrian Catholics draw up “charter of fundamental rights in the Church”

Synodal path of the German Church

Austrian theologian takes heart from German “synodal path”, suggests similar Church reform process for own country

German Catholic women in new push for Church gender equality (stock)

Women to take over pulpits for a Sunday in Germany in push for Church gender equality

Cardinal Müller (in the mitre), nervous about the German Church's 'synodal path'

Beyond the pale: Cardinal Müller compares synodal path to rise of Nazi Germany

Participants in the first assembly of the German synodal path

‘No’ to clericalism, ‘yes’ to co-responsibility: the keys to the first assembly on the German synodal path

The Catholic women of 'Maria 2.0'

Catholic women plead for end to Church oppression: “Every woman wants to be respected in her dignity”

Participants in the second day of the synodal path assembly in Frankfurt

(Small) Win for women on German ‘synodal path’: assembly votes to make resolutions dependent on female majority

The presidents of the German Church's 'synodal path'

“Synodal path” begins in Germany: youth, laity dream of Church “democratisation”

New Bishop of Achonry (Ireland), Paul Dempsey (c)

Reform finally for Ireland? New bishop backed “national gathering” for “deep reflection” on Church’s future

Pope Francis speaks Saturday January 25 to judges of the Roman Rota

Francis looks to strengthen role of married couples to cover lack of priests

Bishop of Waterford and Lismore (Ireland), Alphonsus Cullinan

Irish bishop warns of “new culture trying to undo truths of Christianity from the ground up”

German lay president Thomas Sternberg

German lay head blasts “right-wing conservative” critics of “synodal path”, suggests Church reform processes every five years

Empty pews in Ireland (stock)

Tensions boil over in Irish Church as priests, laypeople beg bishops for real reform

German cardinal Reinhard Marx

Marx calls for greater say for women, laypeople: “Men discussing the Church on their own is not a good thing”

Pope Francis celebrates his morning Mass January 21

Francis denounces ecclesiastical careerists: “If we priests feel more important than others, we deny God’s gift”