The Catholic Church in Germany is undergoing a profound and fiercely contested transformation, and at the centre of this process stands the highly controversial Synodaler Weg (Synodal Path).
Launched in 2019, the Synodal Path was a direct response to the explosive 2018 Mannheim, Heidelberg, and Gießen (MGH) Study, which revealed that Church files from 1946 to 2014 detailed over 3,600 cases of child abuse involving more than 1,670 members of the clergy.
And perhaps more disturbing still, was that in many cases the church had taken deliberate measures to attempt to conceal and supress the truth.
