Pope Francis has written a letter in which he has expressed strong reservations about the direction of the Catholic Church in Germany, which he says “threatens to steer it increasingly away from the universal Church's common path”.
The Pope expressed his concerns in a letter written in German to four German Catholic laywomen, who had first written to him about their own worries. The letter was first published in the German newspaper Welt on November 21.
“I share your concerns,” wrote Pope Francis, referring to the German church’s desire to establish a synodal committee of laity and bishops which would govern the Catholic Church in Germany.
