German Catholic identity, shaped and galvanised by its history, feels itself to be ahead of church teaching. The traumas of the past explain why that feeling need not mean the same as secularisation or Protestantism.
15 June 2023, The Tablet
Why the German church is different
Behind the synodal pathway.
Konrad Adenauer with Cardinal Josef Frings.
photo: alamy/keystone press
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