The German Bishops’ head has said he will seek a world synod on issues such as the ordination of women and blessings for gay couples.
On gays in the Church, “we must never forget that every difference is embraced by the love of God, who does not discriminate”, Italian cardinal Matteo Zuppi has said.
A German cardinal has likened so-called gender ideology to Nazism as the country outlawed gay ‘conversion therapy’ for minors.
“I love my Church too much to leave it in the hands of those who would rather see people like me gone”, a Swiss lesbian Catholic theologian has said.
The Dublin archdiocese is looking for new lay ministries to connect beyond people around in the Church and ensure that it “thrives into the future”.
In celebration of International Women’s Day, Catholic women are initiating a global strike from Church participation, attendance, and financial contributions throughout the month of May.
Divorce, gays, the sexuality of religious… pushes to revise Catholic sexual morality are gathering steam in Germany.
The Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the United Nations and other international organizations in Geneva, Archbishop Ivan Jurkovič, has blasted the UN for the “ideological colonisation” in a new report of the right to freedom of religion.
The German Bishops have chosen as their new President a reformer in favour of optional celibacy and more power for women.
LGBT rights campaigners have protested against a homophobic Polish archbishop and called for his resignation.
A German theologian has insisted that Church same-sex blessings are “entirely possible” even under current Catholic doctrine.
A “synodal path” participant who describes themself as non-binary caused a sensation in the German Church by speaking truth to power at the first synodal assembly in Frankfurt.
It almost got lost in the excitement of democracy and reform in the Church at the first German synodal assembly, but two bishops at the assembly called there for “widening, opening and change” on Catholic LGBT+ doctrine.
No to clericalism and yes to greater co-responsibility and participation on the part of laypeople in the Church. Those were the keys to the first assembly on the German synodal path which took place this past weekend in Frankfurt.
No to clericalism and yes to greater co-responsibility and participation on the part of laypeople in the Church. Those were the keys to the first assembly on the German synodal path which took place this past weekend in Frankfurt.
The long-awaited “synodal path” Church reform process gets underway formally today in Germany, with youth and the laity dreaming of Church “democratisation”.
An Austrian cardinal has said that the Last Judgment will be about whether we have fed the hungry and clothed the naked, not about our sexual orientation.
“It hurts, but they can’t take my faith away”, a gay Spanish Catholic has declared with respect to the anti-LGBT discrimination he suffers in the Church.
A Spanish archbishop has proclaimed his respect for same-sex families, adding moreover that “the Gospel never condemns” these relationships.
In a gay-friendly move, a French bishop has scrapped the words ‘father’ and ‘mother’ from baptismal registers in favour of gender-neutral terms for parental relationships.
Tens of thousands of Poles are petitioning the Pope to silence the “hateful voice” of controversial priest media tycoon Tadeusz Rydzyk.
The Bishop of Osnabrück in Germany is pushing for progress in the Church on the questions of women’s leadership, blessings for gay couples and optional priestly celibacy.
A German gay ‘conversion therapy’ victim has insisted that “it is essential that the Churches speak out loudly that homosexuality is not a disease”.
Cardinal Reinhard Marx has said gay couples can receive a blessing in the Church, “in the sense of pastoral care”, even if that blessing can’t look like or be seen to recognise a marriage ceremony.
The Secretary of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Giacomo Morandi, has rushed to clarify what he has called “distorted”, “instrumental” and downright “wrong” readings of a new Vatican study of Catholic biblical anthropology.
Amsterdam priest Pierre Valkering, who came out of the closet during a public Mass in March, has won a Vatican appeal against his dismissal as pastor of the Vredeskerk Peace Church.