German Bishops Want Reform But Not to Break Away From Rome | EWTN News Nightly – YouTube

A continued course of dispute and dissent among Catholic bishops in Germany, even as they say they won’t break away

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Did the Vatican ‘Snub’ German Bishops Over Synodal Way?| National Catholic Register

Bishop Stefan Oster of Passau was one of the first bishops to speak out after the visit to Rome. Did

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German bishops at stalemate with Vatican over women, homosexuality

The president of the German Bishops’ Conference, Bishop Georg Bätzing, said he will not deny blessings for same-sex couples. German

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Questions about Synodal Path dominate German bishops’ visit – UCA News

Their meeting with heads of the Vatican’s dicasteries was a ‘serious test of synodality,’ Bishop Georg Bätzing says Questions about

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‘Synod’, ‘synod’ and ‘synodality’: why we should be wary of poorly defined words – Catholic Herald

Ask anyone involved, either deeply or remotely, partaking or observing, what is meant by synodality and you are likely to

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Peeking Inside the Synod on Synodality’s Boardroom| National Catholic Register

COMMENTARY: Austen Ivereigh and the other ‘experts’ at the recent synodal summit in Frascati act as if John Paul II’s

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Vatican urges ‘moratorium’ on German church reform process | Crux

62 German bishops were in Rome this week for their ad limina visit, which bishops’ conferences make every few years

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Two Versions of the Church

The Synod document is a typical product of bureaucracy—wordy and jargon-ridden, that is. The 1936 Bernanos novel is a minor

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Synodality – an exercise in misreading St John Henry Newman and ‘Lumen gentium’

Gavin Ashenden, The Catholic Herald One consequence of writing for the Catholic Herald on the Synodal process is that it

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Satan Unbound by Patricia Snow | Articles | First Things

Let this creature serve thee in expelling demons and curing diseases. Whatever it sprinkles in the homes of the faithful,

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