Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bishops stand together before the opening service in the High Cathedral. The office of the German Bishops' Conference in the ...

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

The German bishops' conference announced that it has elected Bishop Heiner Wilmer of Hildesheim as its next president. He will serve as president for a six-year term, succeeding Bishop Georg Bätzing ...

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 German bishops' conference announced that it has elected Bishop Heiner Wilmer of Hildesheim as its next president. He will serve as president for a six-year term, succeeding Bishop Georg Bätzing ...

Members of the German Bishops’ Conference pose for a photo during their fall general assembly in 2021 in Fulda. (Credit: German Bishops’ Conference/Ralph Sondermann.) Listen ROME – As the German ...

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 ...

March 22 was a significant day for Catholics in Germany. The heads of the German bishops' conference traveled to Rome to speak to Vatican leaders and look for a way out of the impasse they have found ...

The chairman of the German Bishops’ Conference defended his country’s controversial guidelines on same-sex blessings this week, asserting that there was no contradiction with Vatican teaching, despite ...

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 ...