Rome silent on German diocese’s appointment of lay ‘vicar general representative’

Stephanie Rieth began serving as ‘representative of the vicar general’ in the Diocese of Mainz in April.

A lay woman serving as a “representative of the vicar general” in a German diocese has said that the Vatican has not responded to her appointment six months after she took up the post.

Stephanie Rieth, who assumed the new role in the Diocese of Mainz in April, told the German Catholic news agency KNA that she was not surprised by the lack of reaction in …