Synod

Cardinals praise ‘irreversible’ synodality and ‘healing’ nature of Church decline

The true state of the Church is far worse than many surveys document, but for Cardinals Hollerich and Marx the answer is to be synodal even more determinedly than before.

Vatican’s authority at risk over decision on Germany’s Synodal Conference

Bishop Wilmer is strangely confident that the Synodal Conference’s statutes will be approved, despite the Vatican’s firm opposition

Bishop Mutsaerts: The Church in crisis and how we shouldn’t save it

Twelve issues, uncomfortable truths, and a Catholic path forward for the Church, as identified by Bishop Mutsaerts

Bishop Robert Mutsaerts

Bishop Wilmer seeks to change everything in the name of synodality

For the German prelate, everything that is unchanging must change in the name of synodality, except synodality itself.

The bureaucracy loves synodality

While Rome extends the synodal process into a permanent structure, enthusiasm ran out some time ago

Cologne cardinal: Defining synodality a ‘major challenge’ for Church

Cardinal Woelki commented on the traditional Mass and the German Synodal Way in a new interview, as questions around both remain key for the Church

Synodalism is an anachronism

By drawing the laity into official Church structures, synodalism misunderstands both Vatican II and the realities of modern civil society

Msgr Martin Grichting

Dutch bishop hits back at his auxiliary’s critique of synodality

“The world is not waiting for yet another organization that listens to it. There are enough of those,” Bishop Mutsaerts had said about the Synod.

Less than 7% of German Catholics attend weekly Mass

The latest figures from the Catholic Church in Germany detail continued decline in practice of the Faith

Cardinal Sarah: Pachamama was proof that ‘paganism has entered the Church’

The former Curial cardinal outlined two incidents of Pope Francis’ papacy which caused him particular concern, which he argued were evidence of the ingress of paganism