German Catholic Church welcomes Vatican decree to bless same-sex couples, though some wish it went further KNA International December 19, 2023 Father Heiner Dresen blesses a same-sex couple in in ...

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03/13/2023 March 13, 2023. A small revolution? No, but the German Synodal Path has paved the way for reform of Catholic Church practices regarding same-sex couples and lay preaching.

The German Church received 7.32 billion euros via the church tax last year, suggesting that the average German Catholic pays about 350 euro in kirchensteur a year.

With the given name of Joseph Ratzinger, the man who would become the first German pope in 1,000 years was baptized in a small Bavarian town, came of age during World War II, was mandated as a ...

In addition, Catholic schools were additional options for education. In the 1840s, Lutherans worshipped at St. Paul’s (now gone) on South High Street. In a dispute over English being used in the ...