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Tensions rise on eve of last German synodal way assembly

The synodal way continues in Germany. Here's what's coming.

Luke Coppen
Mar 07, 2023
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Tensions rise on eve of last German synodal way assembly

Tensions are rising in the Catholic Church in Germany ahead of this week’s final assembly of the controversial “synodal way.”

Speaking days before the March 9-11 gathering in Frankfurt, the initiative’s co-president Irme Stetter-Karp expressed surprise at the German bishops’ plan to submit changes to documents that may struggle to gain a two-thirds major…

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