German Bishop Heiner Wilmer of Hildesheim, pictured Feb. 23, 2026, during the spring plenary assembly of the German Bishops' Conference in Würzburg, was elected the next president of the conference ...

The German Catholic bishops have published a handout that offers guidance to pastors on blessings for couples in “irregular” situations such as same-sex relationships, urging clergy to use the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bishop Heiner Wilmer, new Chairman of the German Bishops' Conference, speaks at a press conference following his election. Daniel ...

The chairman of the German Bishops’ Conference praised the late philosopher Jürgen Habermas’ landmark 2004 dialogue with the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Pope Leo XIV appears from the main balcony of the Lateran Basilica in Rome. Oliver Weiken/dpa The head of the Central Committee of ...

Bishop Georg Bätzing of Limburg, president of the German bishops' conference, who spearheaded the controversial Synodal Way during his six-year term, announced that he will not seek reelection when ...

The European Court of Justice ruled on the case of a former Caritas employee in Germany who was dismissed when she cancelled ...

The days after a pope's death are hectic, and it's a hard time for Vatican officials to examine complex, controversial documents. Nevertheless, German Catholic bishops — two days after Pope Francis ...

Cardinal Reinhard Marx of Munich and Freising has announced that the Catholic Church in Germany is embarking on a "binding synodal process" to tackle what he says are the three key issues arising from ...

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 ...