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Diocese Promotes Valentine’s Day Blessings with Photo of Queer Couple Kissingi> Photo posted by the Diocese of Aachen to promote blessings for couples around Valentine’s DayA German diocese has promoted blessings for couples, including same-gender ones, even posting a photo of two men kissing with the words “Love is everything.”The Diocese of Aachen posted on Facebook earlier this week about the blessings to mark Valentine’s Day. The text accompanying the photo read:“This one goes out to all couples and newlyweds: We wish you a wonderful Valentine’s Day!“If you would like to have your love blessed: In the Diocese of Aachen...

Leading laywoman and Co-President of German 'Synodal Way' calls for 'nationwide provision of abortion'Irme Stetter-Karp, president of the Central Committee of German CatholicsA leading laywoman and co-president of the German "Synodal Way" has demanded a "nationwide provision of abortion" across the European Union's most populous country. Irme Stetter-Karp, president of the Central Committee of German Catholics (ZdK), acknowledged that abortion should not be considered a "regular medical service", CNA Deutsch, CNA's German-language news partner, reported. In comments published by German weekly Die Zeit, the 65-year-old wrote that abortion was "not a regular intervention and should not be treated as such,"...

Cardinal Pell: ‘The duty of the German bishops is to uphold the teachings of Scripture’Pell said: “The duty of the German bishops is to uphold the teachings of Scripture, to uphold the teachings of the Church. We stand under those teachings. They’ve got no power to change them -- none of us do.”“What is important is what is in the Word of God, what is in the apostolic tradition. And I don’t think that when push comes to shove they’ll -- and I cross my metaphors -- cross the Rubicon.”The cardinal followed the situation of the Church in Germany through...

Rather “Dead": Cardinal Marx Fears the Catholic FaithAt times it seems to him that "traditions" and "images of faith" are held on to out of "fear" of "the new," Munich Cardinal Reinhard Marx said in his so-called Easter message of 3 April, playing the fear card.The Novus Ordo group uses the fraudulent expression "traditions" for those parts of the Catholic faith they reject.For Marx, the "paschal law" also applies to the Catholic faith: Without death, no resurrection! Without dying, no new life!Of course, Marx did not mean evil German traditions such as church tax, subservience to the state, state salaries...

Prominent German Catholics publicly resist bishops’ plan to ‘Protestantize’ Church in Germany German profs, journalists, and other Catholic personalities have banded together to oppose the German bishops’ synodal path. PETITION: Join faithful German Catholics in resisting bishops’ plan to ‘Protestantize’ Church.  Sign the petition here. February 26, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – Prominent German Catholics who are faithful to the Church and her perennial teachings have come out publicly to “oppose” the German bishops’ “synodal path” for its dissent from Catholic teaching on celibacy, clerical authority, the ban on female ordination, contraception, cohabitation, homosexuality, and gender theory. “Members of the so-called synodal...