According to the German Bishops’ Conference, Catholics now make up less than a quarter of Germany’s population and less than ...

The Catholic Church in Germany has lost another 321,611 followers in 2024. The exodus of believers continues inexorably, and according to statistics presented by the German Bishops' Conference ...

Inspired by Martin Luther’s revolutionary example, German-speaking peasants banded together in an attempt to overthrow their ...

Returning home, I married and went with my Disciples of Christ husband to Germany, where we frequented ... I can honestly say joining the Catholic Church.

Faced with dwindling church congregations in Germany, spiritual leaders are getting creative in their efforts to attract young people. The numbers of people leaving both the Catholic and ...

Goethe University Frankfurt has been awarded another humanities research unit funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG): The unit, titled “Power and Abuse in the Roman Catholic Church,” will ...

When Christianity became state-sponsored under leaders such as Constantine and Theodosius, governments systematically ...

The tradition of only eating fish on Good Friday comes from a Catholic rule of not consuming the meat of warm-blooded animals ...

Meanwhile public prosecutors in Munich announced on Friday that they were opening investigations in 42 cases of alleged misconduct by leading members of the Catholic Church in Germany.