Speaking at the opening of the “Katholikentag” in the central German town of Erfurt on Wednesday, President Frank-Walter Steinmeier decried the Church’s diminishing role and standing in German society ...

Irme Stetter-Karp, President of the Central Committee of German Catholics, sits on the podium at an event for the German Catholics' Day. The head of the Central Committee of German Catholics (ZdK) has ...

The Catholic Church in Germany is facing a cascading financial crisis as declining revenues force dioceses nationwide to implement drastic spending cuts, with one diocese projecting a staggering ...

When the Alternative for Germany, an extreme-right party, came in a close second in general elections at the end of February, German bishops reiterated their previous instruction to German Catholics ...

Amid an exodus from Catholicism and ongoing struggles over the controversial German Synodal Way, both Pope Francis and the German president addressed participants at a national Catholic event underway ...